Medical Care Shouldn’t Be a Luxury
My health condition feels like a wave that never breaks, just keeps crashing in. This body of mine is rotting and falling apart piece by piece.
Dismissed symptoms are all coming back to me now — physical ailments I was conditioned to believe were no big deal.
“Don’t be such a drama queen, everyone gets that,” My concerns were dismissed as childish overreactions.
These weren’t normal. The symptoms I was silenced about, dismissed as mere inconveniences until I stopped talking about them, are rearing their heads in new and ever-increasing ways.
It’s just ridiculous to dismiss such obvious abnormalities.
The doctor’s appointments are becoming confirmations with each new symptom I noticed. Now, those problems are validated by medical explanation.
I was referred to different wings of the same hospital or different hospitals in town for various specialist. Sometimes, it’s a frantic dash from one appointment to the next, all in a single day.
It feels overwhelming, so much so that once, I even ended up at the wrong hospital.
Without health insurance, I can never afford the cost of diagnostic procedures at private facilities. This doesn’t even…
