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NotThisTime

(3,657 posts)
Wed Mar 13, 2013, 03:51 PM Mar 2013

I really can't take anymore, I'm just finished [View all]

I've been battling an illness for the better part of 15 years. I'm tired, I'm broken and there is no end in sight. Every eight weeks I drive (rather I'm driven) for a procedure that costs me 731.00 plus travel costs for the 440 mile round trip event. My muscles work when they want, they do what they want. I recently had my wheelchair batteries replaced, honestly I think the company that originally replaced them did a faulty job, doesn't matter. As of whenever they decided replacing wheelchair batteries is a COMFORT. It's not a covered benefit, another 630.00. I can get a replacement wheelchair every five years, I could have replaced the chair and had that covered (it was 22 grand), but the batteries? No, it's a comfort.....

I fell two days and hurt myself, I don't go to the doctor because of the expense, my diaphragm has started to weaken, I don't go because of the cost. 20% of a hell of a lot of money is a lot of money. I'm supposed to go for more injections next week, I think I have finally come to the realization that for what my life is and what this is doing to my family, it's not worth it anymore. I really think I'm finished.

I just had to tell someone, this is literally killing me, I'm sorry if I sound like I'm whining.

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