Last month, I wrote an entry about needing help to pay off ambulance and hospital fees after being sent to the emergency room, and I was able to successfully raise a little under one grand five hundred to pay most of it off. I have never been more thankful and appreciative, because who does that? It takes a lot of kindness and consideration to help a stranger in their time of need.

That said, sadly I must report I need more help. I recently received another statement requesting payment for doctor services. $961.00US, specifically. I must admit my ignorance. I didn’t realized both the hospital and doctor charge for treatment, because I never dealt with this situation before. I suppose we all have learn about adult shenanigans like how medical bills are processed when you’re uninsured the hard way, but I want to cry, honestly. The system placed in place here in the United States is such an unfair farce; it shouldn’t be this way.

My employment situation is still the same. I am happily loving my new job, but I have only been averaging fifteen hours a week. There’s no way I will be able to come up with the amount by the June 9th due date, and giving the uncertainty of part-time employment and what I still owe on my previous bills, setting up monthly payment plans will bring me into the red. I am sincerely sorry for asking asking for such large help so very shortly after, but I am not sure what else I can do. I am being charged $59.00US for a non-invasive pulse oximetry (heart monitoring), then $902.00US for exchanging maybe a five minute conversation about how I don’t wish for treatment because I can’t afford treatment with the doctor assigned to the emergency room? $961.00 in total for that?

It’s embarrassing that’s how we do health care in the United States, and I again sorry for asking strangers for help. I just want this all over. Same rules applied. Here’s my little PayPal donation link thingy. Anything left over will be donated to Shade Tree, a local Women’s Shelter in the Las Vegas Valley. Thank you in advance, I still wish I had something tangible to offer, because a simple “thanks” isn’t enough.

Edited to add (May 25): I messed up the donation link in, because that’s how I do things, so if you’ve come from an earlier reblog, hello! It’s properly updated now.

A couple Fridays ago I got sent to the emergency room for heat exhaustion. It sucked for so many different reasons, and I am upset I have not apparently been taking proper good care of my body like I should be during spring and summer seasons. It was embarrassing, I admit, but I suppose it happens to anyone some point in their life.

Nevertheless, sadly, I am having troubles paying off the medical bills. I’ve been told I owe 1,300USD due to ambulance fees and materials. Thankfully I declined farther testing while I was there, because I knew I wasn’t going to have the means to pay. I haven’t had health insurance since I turned twenty-one (almost three years since I turn twenty-four in three months). I have been unemployed for the past year, and my unemployment checks were only eighty-five (85) dollars a week after taxes, so I haven’t been able to save for situations like this. I have recently found employment (what luck, right?), but it is only merely part-time, and I am not sure how many hours I will end up receiving once my shop opens.

I genuinely hate being place in the position to ask for such large monetary help, but I just don’t know what else to do. I sent up a donation form button thingy through Paypal. You can access the link by clicking here. If by some miracle I get more than what I owe, I have made plans to give the rest to Shade Tree, a local Women’s Shelter, so can you please consider it?

Thank you, thanks so much in advance. I wish I had something else to offer people for being kind, but I don’t have any interesting talents that can translate into tangible items or rewards.

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