Medical Bills
Spent two weeks in the hospital last month. I don’t have health insurance so it was super scary for me. Went in for appendicitis, ended up getting bowel complications and multiple abscesses which is what required me to stay for so long. A friend of my partner has a family member who works at the hospital and was able to get me the required paperwork for their debt forgiveness program, which I thankfully ended up qualifying for due to my income and lack of insurance. What would have been a lifelong, crippling amount of debt for me ended up being reduced to a couple paychecks worth of budgeting.
Not trying to brag, I’ve just had shit luck with my finances my whole life and going to the hospital knowing how much emergency care costs was absolutely terrifying for me. This was truly the biggest blessing I have ever received in my life, and a stroke of much needed luck.
Spent two weeks in the hospital last month. I don’t have health insurance so it was super scary for me. Went in for appendicitis, ended up getting bowel complications and multiple abscesses which is what required me to stay for so long. A friend of my partner has a family member who works at the hospital and was able to get me the required paperwork for their debt forgiveness program, which I thankfully ended up qualifying for due to my income and lack of insurance. What would have been a lifelong, crippling amount of debt for me ended up being reduced to a couple paychecks worth of budgeting.
Not trying to brag, I’ve just had shit luck with my finances my whole life and going to the hospital knowing how much emergency care costs was absolutely terrifying for me. This was truly the biggest blessing I have ever received in my life, and a stroke of much needed luck.