re: #745 NukeAtomrod

If you’re really in great need, you should put up a webpage and make your case. Take donations by PayPal. You will get them if you try. Don’t wait for the government to save you. Even if Obama rams his plan through, you probably won’t get what you need from it.

And you can find work that doesn’t require physical activity. How about a call center? You could take orders for products and services, or do technical support, sitting in a chair in front of a computer all day. It’s not great work, but you can do it and you’ll get a steady paycheck. My local cable company even gives medical coverage to their employees.

If you really need something, you can make it happen. All by yourself. Some people can’t, and that’s where charity comes in.

Counting surgery, a lot of meds, and a lengthy hospital stay, we’re talking substantially into six figures here. And most employee health insurance doesn’t cover preexisting conditions like mine; certainly not at the call center level.

Neither I nor my condition are glamorous or appealing enough to make PR hay, which is what medical charity is all about.

I’m just struggling to keep my financial head above water, waiting for the next attack (which, according to the doctor, is eventually damn near inevitable), and hoping it doesn’t kill me, and that they will be able to perform the corrective surgery this time that medical circumstances prevented them from performing the last time.