Re: Oouuuch!
- From: Alex <akfromak@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:22:43 GMT
rose wrote:
> Alex wrote:
>
>>The next thing I know, I am laying in the alley, still buckled into the
>>chair, laying on my side. I apparently hit a small hole with one of the
>>front wheels, spun around and flipped over onto my left side.
>
>
> YIKES, Alex!! OUCH is right. :/ hope you continue with speedy mending
> your bod, and then your chair!
>
Yes, slowly but surely, I'm getting better. Each day is a little better
than the last one.
>
>>Fortunately, I was only about a half block away from the quick shop,
>>which is quite popular as it's the only one on our side of town. After
>>what felt like an eternity, actually probably only about five minutes or
>>so, three(!!) cars pull up with about six or seven people.
>
>
> i'd have probably keeled over from a fear-induced heart attack right
> then and there, LOL. that's so cool that there were so many folks who
> wanted to help! i'd most likely assume they were there to rob me, at
> the very least.
>
Yeah, although I feel pretty lucky. If it had happened in one of the
other alleys that I use, it might have been a different story,
residential, very little traffic. It is making me consider, very
strongly, getting a cell phone. I had considered it in the past, but
this incident has sorta pushed it to the forefront, shall we say?
> oh, just BTW, there are NO sidewalks in my neighborhood at ALL. i
> figure i'll be having enough trouble getting around in broad daylight,
> rolling in the street with the cars (who in my neighborhood, seem to be
> filled with people yelling 'GET OUTA THE ROAD, YA F***ING GIMP!"
> because you're blocking their turn, rather than kind souls who want to
> know if you need help), grass, gravel, broken pavement, potholes....ah
> who am i kidding, if i ever do get the power chair, i'm pretty sure it
> will be only after i really am 'too disabled' for it to make any
> difference.
>
>
>
>><rant mode>
>>Isn't it shamefull that the people who can afford it the least, those
>>without insurance, are expected to pay the most? For example, as some
>>of you may have read previously, I get monthly Cytoxan treatments. Now,
>>the hospital bills Medicare over $2000 for each treatment. Medicare
>>actually pays about $200 & I pay about $50. Now if I didn't have
>>Medicare or any other insurance, I would still get a bill for over $2000
>>and they would expect me to pay it or they send it to a collection
>>agency. Let me tell you, if I didn't have Medicare and the VA, if I had
>>to pay for that treatment and my meds (I currently get them from the
>>VA), it would amount to more than our combined income each month, and
>>that's not even taking into account all the blood tests, dr. visits, etc.
>></rant mode>
>
>
> Alex, you're so cute when you rant! ;-> (sorry, kidding!)
>
> yup, i think it IS shameful. my daughter just finished paying off
> emergency room and lab test bills. these were tests needed as the
> result of a criminal action. the state paid for the tests needed for
> their case; the CVF "reimbursed" a couple hundred. that left almost $2K
> for her to pay off all on her own. took her more than a year. if she'd
> had insurance, she'd have been covered, but she wasn't, so she paid.
> and paid, and paid. only one good thing to be found there, i told her
> that when she finally paid off the bills, she'd have the hugest feeling
> of accomplishment....and she tells me, i was absolutely correct. about
> that part, at least.
>
> it isn't the insured who pay for the impoverished; it's the uninsured
> who still dream good credit score dreams that carry the brunt of the
> burden.
>
> dude, you SHOULD go into biz making chair-light get-ups, for real.
> after my dx, i never again worked as a regular employee, tho i got
> enough freelance and IC work to pay the bills. made me think about
> alternate ways to bring in some cash, and i discovered all kinds of
> previously unknown talents for getting a buck out of things i'd always
> done just for fun previously (not THAT, in case any smart alecs were
> thinking so, hee). just a whole bunch of stuff that was legal. :->
>
> i grew up broke, our 'insurance' was staying healthy, and when
> something was bad enough to actually *require* medical attention, we
> took the bus to the community clinic and sat for hours waiting with
> other sick and injured people. there was a glorious time in the middle
> when i was working, making great bread, and insured -- i felt like i
> was joining 'mainstream society' for a while there. these days, it's
> like it was when i was a kid -- you can either afford it, or you do
> without. in case of true emergency, go to the broke people's clinic and
> wait. was talking to one of my sisters recently, she tells me that she
> and her husband are having problems with Tri-Care. my bro-in-law has
> some prescription that costs $1k per month, and they were paying
> something like a $10-15 co-pay. she says they were informed that wasn't
> going ot happen any longer. she said to me, 'well, we don't have the
> money. i hate the idea that Larry will have to do without his meds, but
> what other choice is there?" yup, that's my sister, all right. we're
> in the same leaky boat together, LOL. maybe it's easier when you do
> grow up knowing there WILL -- not might, but WILL -- be things others
> think of as necessities that you're never going to be able to afford. i
> was born broke and i'll die broke -- oh well! doesn't mean i want to
> drag Dennis or god forbid Tam down with me. if getting the "recommended
> treatment" means getting Medicaid and having a lien put on the house
> that Dennis -- not me, him -- paid for, then too bad, so sad. it ain't
> gonna happen.
>
> hope you heal 'toot sweet!' :->
> rose
>
Thanks!
Alex
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