my name is jacob, im 22 and im from the uk. i post about a lot of stuff on here lots of fandoms and other general tumblr stuff but i also have some other blogs too
I had “the worst herniated c5-c6” my surgeon and ortho docs had ever seen, and I could not feel or use one arm, I could barely breathe or talk and I couldn’t fucking move. parts of my disc were traveling up and down my spinal canal causing spinal cord injury symptoms. my surgeon decided to operate immediately or else I might. Idk. become permanently quadriplegic?
but my insurance, not understanding the severity of my illness or not caring, wouldn’t cover the surgery to fix it unless I went to the hospital and sat in the emergency room and waited for twelve fucking hours. that was the only way they would cover the surgery within a week.
I had HOURS for nerve damage to become a permanent issue. I wasted so many of them because of this bullshit. this country is absolutely deranged and makes being sick and disabled so needlessly traumatic and morbid. It’s such a horrible fucking joke
for the Europeans/Canadians/Aussies— this is literally a best-case-scenario for Americans in my exact same circumstances, too. This was a “good” hospital. I have “good” insurance. This was a “good” doctor who was on my side and literally wanted me to have the surgery. and it still(!!!)didn’t work out in anyones favor except for my insurance company.
to save MONEY
disabled Americans are all being held hostage by a capitalist death cult and not even our doctors can save us
I have eczema so severe that it ruins my life. Literally every inch of my body becomes bright red and inflamed. I get covered in blisters and my hair starts falling out. Random parts of my body swell up. Every movement causes immense pain, it itches so bad that my clothes and bed sheets get covered in blood, and sleeping becomes impossible. It gets infected and if left untreated I could get sepsis and die from it. I have tried every treatment and remedy under the sun and nothing works to keep it at bay except for immunosuppressive injections.
My insurance company kept rejecting the prior authorization I needed to receive this medication. It took three months of filing appeals and complaints and working with an ombudsman before they finally relented and authorized it and I had to navigate all of this while feeling like my entire body is on fire and dealing with extreme fatigue from my immune system going completely fucking insane. Without insurance these injections cost between $3,000 and $6,000 a month.
Insurance companies are fucking evil. Their greed almost killed me and this is the norm. They successfully kill thousands of people every year because money matters more to them than human lives. I want our medical system to burn to the fucking ground.
naurrrrrr cos bbc merlin has straight up the most depressing endings to a childrens show ive ever seen. arthur dies, gwen has to go on without her husband and merlin is cursed with immortality until arthur returns. and the last scene. jesus christ. merlin walking past the lake in our time, all his friends are dead and hes alone waiting for arthur. WHAT THE FUCK????
