#I hate the medical system

[r3musmoony]

bruh why is the NDIS so unnecessarily complicated what the fuck

(for those of you who don’t know the NDIS is just the ‘National Disability Insurance System’ which is like, if you have a disability that impacts your daily life and you need adaptive technology or aids the NDIS will pay for it (as long as you actually need it for your disability and the reason you need it is directly linked to your disability))

rant beneath the cut lol

I’m considering going on it to help me pay for my wheelchair (cuz 5000 AUD is impossible for me to save) but like, it’s so complicated and i need an official diagnosis and evidence supporting WHY I need financial help to afford it and WHY I need a wheelchair in the first place and it’s like ughhhhh just trust me when I say I need it like wtf. Doctors are notoriously bad at telling people when to use mobility aids because they consider it ‘giving up’ which is fucking stupid, like I’m ‘giving up’ because I want to be in less pain but still go to class and live life?? how does that make sense!?

Like srsly all I wanna do is just live life, go to my uni classes, go out with friends and eventually dates but I also know that I can’t do that without help! and at the moment. yes, crutches are helpful in that but also so was my cane and now after only 7 months of using it, it’s not helping as much as it did when I first brought it.

The pain that started in only my left hip has now moved to both hips, my thighs, my knees, hell even my fucking arms hurt sometimes and it’s not getting any better! I just don’t understand why it’s seen as ‘giving up’ when all I wanna do is just, live?? and be able to go out??? and be in minimal pain???? like jfc can someone please explain to me why that’s considered giving up? because I truly cannot understand it!!

[id: black text on a purple background reading: “this post is for cripples only”. there are two of the wheelchair disability symbol in black on each side of the image. /end id]

[ilikecarsandlike4people]

...I'm supposed to be getting ready for my 6am morning tomorrow but my body has once again betrayed me and I literally cannot straighten my back without it cramping rn

[pots-plus-pans]

god i hate figuring co-pay stuff

like i need a medicine that’s 1.5k an injection for one injection a week to make sure my throat doesn’t close

i had 1.2k to pay and despite literally not being able to leave my dorm today i had to spend abt an hour figuring out how to pay for this medicine bc i need it by saturday

ughhhh

[local-lovecraftian-cryptid]

“You’re not gonna die so there’s nothing else we can do can do”

What the actual fuck

[steampunk-raven]

advil not kicking in :) not sure what I was expecting tbf but it’s not like I can tell my ob-gyn that I need stronger meds and have her *listen* to me

[weedclown]

having to leave the house this early on 0 sleep is agonyyyyyyy

[girl-resurrected]

Guess who’s been complaining of muscle fatigue and pain, and fatigue in general and has been dismissed and continuously pushed by my physical therapist because “that’s just how pt is” and then who was feeling their back last night and felt a small bump on their lower spine area. You’re right it’s me!! It’s so disheartening being treated like my body is fine and I just need to work more to eliminate the pain when I’ve been through continuous and strenuous stress on body and mind throughout my cancer journey. This shit on my back better be a fucking knot in my muscle because I’m gonna be so pissed if it turns out to be some evil recurrence because my original diagnosis was held back for three months because lovely Mr. Kurapati wouldn’t listen to me. Not doing that again

Anyways

[local-lovecraftian-cryptid]

The “specialist” said that bc I had friends and good grades, I couldn’t be autistic, they were influenced by another dickhead doctor, they were flat out wrong about things related to autism, fuck the medical system

I don't miss being 5 years old and asking the teacher at school why the other kids wouldn't play with me. I don't miss being 7 years old and finding out that other kids were being mean to me when the teacher told them off for it. I don't miss being 9 years old and my only friend at school telling me we had to pretend to stop being friends because no one wanted to be her friend because she was my friend. I don't miss my life pre-diagnosis, where I thought I was just all of the labels people have thrown at me my whole life. I thought I was weird, cringe, robotic, lazy, selfish, and rude, among other labels. I know now that I'm just a perfectly healthy autistic person, but I didn't know that before. I thought I was just broken, and I resent the adults in my life for not having noticed how much I struggled.

Well, I don't really since I know that most of them were simply uninformed. But there is one adult I (briefly) had in my life who I genuinely do resent for not noticing I was autistic. When I was 8, I got my hearing tested because I didn't respond to my name. When the doctor found that my hearing was fine, instead of recognising that this was a clear sign of autism, they just told my parents I was misbehaving. I don't understand how someone can tell a kid's parents that their kid is misbehaving in that situation, because I was very much not misbehaving. I was just an undiagnosed autistic kid who couldn't recognise when his name was being called.

I'm not trying to say I had a harder time than people who were diagnosed early. I'm just trying to vent about my experiences with being diagnosed late (17). The fact that I'm autistic was the more traumatic factor, but the fact that I had no idea what was going on and that I received absolutely no support for my autism were traumatic for me as well.

[destielmemenews]

Dragoneer died of complications from a lung infection. His last social media posts detail a frustrating ordeal with his insurance and have ignited criticisms of the US healthcare system.

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[gothiccharmschool]

Seriously, bless all of you who found information and posts on dealing with hospital bills. Dad has been in and out of the hospital a few times over the past year (but now there are answers and solutions!), and I finally got him to admit he’s worried about the bills. Thanks to you peeps, I can do the research and alleviate some of his anxiety.

FUCK THIS COUNTRY and the for-profit health industry. No one should have to worry that they can’t afford medical care.

Here, have a photo of my Dad. He’s very handsome and charming.

[canonkiller]

well adjusted normal human man

[bardic-rat]

update: turns out the person who was gonna take me to get the prescription can't. it's a 3.5 hour drive, and i don't have enough gas or money to get there and back. fuck.

(for context: i live in a place that doesn't have a ton of people so we don't really have any trans-affirming healthcare. to get that, i would have to go to a couple of completely different and bigger cities, all of which are at least 1.5 hours away.

you might question why i'm getting t if i can't get gas, but the answer to that is that i'm waiting on a paycheck later this week.)

i'm getting t in 6 days!!! i can finally start moving away from looking like a woman lol

[eldritchlittleblackdragon]

It should be illegal for health insurance companies to not tell you how much you're going to owe for a medical procedure or doctor visit or whatever and whether they'll cover it or not until MONTHS after you got it done. It's fucking atrocious they're allowed to do this.

You're telling me you just now got around to telling me how much for a doctor's visit I had. EIGHT. FUCKING. MONTHS. ago after months and months of crickets. Unacceptable.

[steampunk-raven]

Fascinating that doctors seem to think giving me OTC meds would actually help with my fucking 9-10/10 pain. Or having me increase the dosage of ineffective medicines would make it any more effective. No, that’s just going to destroy my internal organs

[sleepinglionhearts]

It's election night! That means I, who try not to voice too many of my thoughts and opinions because this is supposed to be my fun blog, have things to say!

You know, all things considered, if The Orange Menace wins the election, the one thing I am absolutely going to be tear-my-hair-out angry about, completely insane about, would be to start seeing posts from the sorts of people who were very anti-vote, "it doesn't matter anyway" complaining about Harris losing.

Like they weren't, yknow, part of the problem.

I cannot tell you how disappointing it is to live in Texas, to know that sometimes the voter margins are so, so slim, to see in my county alone that the numbers could probably have shifted very solidly blue if only there were More Than 30% Voter Turnout!!

And for all of those who will be surprised! Surprised about the consequences of The Orange Guy winning! And upset about it! In the same vein of conservatives who get upset because, say, the abortion ban affected them, "why didn't anyone warn me" etc, etc, SURPRISED!

I already went through this in 2016, in college, with OTHER QUEER AND POC STUDENTS ALL LAUGHING OFF THE ORANGE WIN THEN, and then somehow being shocked that he made things worse?

And I know I can't put the blame entirely on them, but with the things I hear from my younger coworkers even, the attitudes they or their friends have, it's like. Aha. Ohoho. I know where this comes from. I've seen this attitude somewhere.

Hate that.

[poisonousquinzel]

"a dude in Texas legally changed his name to "Literally Anyone Else" and he's attempting to run for President against Biden & Trump" [source]

okay, but putting aside the comedic aspect of this, it is concerning the amount of people who are prompted to vote for candidates just because it's funny. I'm not the biggest fan of how his policy about the boarder sounds [Site], but I do implore anyone who is able to vote in the 2024 US election to please research other candidates.

The media is only going to continue pushing the idea it's inevitably going to be Trump vs Biden 2.0 and we have no other options, that we have to vote for Biden again because of Project 2025. Is that whole thing terrifying?

Yeah, fucking absolutely.

But voting for Biden will not solidify our safety from that. Biden is exactly like the rest of them. He always has been. You can't make the lesser of two evils argument when they're both just plain evil.

You cannot say that Biden is even mildly a better choice than Trump when he is currently directly involved in a genocide. That is not some little fucking thing. That in and of itself disqualifies him as a lesser evil. Biden is just as bad as him and he will not save us because he doesn't fucking care.

Cornel West [Site] is an Independent candidate running for President in the 2024 Election. [Policies]

Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia [Site] are running for President and Vice-President as the candidates of the Party for Socialism and Liberation in the 2024 Election. [Policies]

There are options.

There are people trying to change the corrupt foundation our system is built on, but we have to help amplify them because the mainstream media will not.