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Oct. 11th, 2013 09:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolariDidn't get much sleep last night. Very worried, not so much about my eyes, as I'm worried about money.
The ophthalmology exam will be $200. Rough, but doable. If it's nothing, I can pay it and move on worth only a minor hit to the finances.
If I do need minor surgery, the prices I'm seeing are running around $2000. This is also doable, although not very well. This was what my three days in the hospital cost me after a prolonged fight with my insurance. I'm only just now really out of that hole. Going back in would have me put my life back on hold for several years while I paid them back.
What REALLY worries me is if I need major surgery. And without insurance that's gonna smash my pocketbook. I've even mulled over the possibility of losing the sight in that eye instead of declaring bankruptcy, our selling off everything I own.
That's a small, but distinct, possibility, but the most worrying. I've even considered pushing it all off till January when ACA kicks in. although, if it is serious, I'd probably lose my left eye sight by then.
Really, I'm worried I'm never going get out of living hand-to-mouth. I have no savings to speak of, gave up on my surgery due to lack of money, and I have elderly parents who are working past their retirements to prop me up.
And just when it looks like I'm making headway...
I'm hoping it's nothing more than a long term retinal migraine. I really am. Cause the healthcare system in the US will bleed me dry to the point where going blind in one eye is, in my view, a reasonable tradeoff to bankruptcy.
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The ophthalmology exam will be $200. Rough, but doable. If it's nothing, I can pay it and move on worth only a minor hit to the finances.
If I do need minor surgery, the prices I'm seeing are running around $2000. This is also doable, although not very well. This was what my three days in the hospital cost me after a prolonged fight with my insurance. I'm only just now really out of that hole. Going back in would have me put my life back on hold for several years while I paid them back.
What REALLY worries me is if I need major surgery. And without insurance that's gonna smash my pocketbook. I've even mulled over the possibility of losing the sight in that eye instead of declaring bankruptcy, our selling off everything I own.
That's a small, but distinct, possibility, but the most worrying. I've even considered pushing it all off till January when ACA kicks in. although, if it is serious, I'd probably lose my left eye sight by then.
Really, I'm worried I'm never going get out of living hand-to-mouth. I have no savings to speak of, gave up on my surgery due to lack of money, and I have elderly parents who are working past their retirements to prop me up.
And just when it looks like I'm making headway...
I'm hoping it's nothing more than a long term retinal migraine. I really am. Cause the healthcare system in the US will bleed me dry to the point where going blind in one eye is, in my view, a reasonable tradeoff to bankruptcy.
Posted via LjBeetle
