I’m 63 years old and I have a wife, a young boy and 2 nieces living with us.
I have lived a very blessed life in that I have faced many medical traumas in my life and all I can say is, God must have been with me through it all.
When I was 19 I was injured and was in a coma, they had to tie my down because I kept trying to escape the hospital, but I also kept pulling out my oxygen tubes and that caused me to have scare tissue in my airway and my airway started to collapse in my sleep. I’ve had 3 emergency tracheotomies while I was awake and over 20 throat surgeries.
As I got older I learned that I had Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and I was having 10 non-epileptic convulsions a day for 8 years and Traumatic Brain Injury and I needed medication that took the doctors over 6 years to figure out the right combination of medications to get me stabilized in 2008-2014.
Well, the reason I’m writing this letter for help with medical assistance now it because after the removed the restrictions from corona-virus travel in 2023, my wife and me, my wife’s nephew and our son went out to buy a new SUV.
We also have 2 of my wife’s nieces living with us so they live close to the college so they can get a better job. They also help a lot with cooking and cleaning.
While we were out of town to buy the new SUV, my wife was visiting her sister, I slipped and fractured my arm and separated my shoulder. I ended up having to get a reverse shoulder replacement in March 2023. I started physical therapy in June 2023 when I noticed that my knee was popping around and something wasn’t right.
I saw 1 doctor and he cave me the stuff like what is in the injection to stop the pain, except it was in the pill form and it worked great for about 6 weeks.
I went to the local emergency room the day after Christmas about my knee pain and the doctor ordered and MRI. With it being the holiday season and New Years it took a while but we finally got the results and I had a torn meniscus on the outside of my knee and on the inside of my knee the meniscus was folded over on top of itself.
I made another trip to the Orthopedic Surgeon and I was ready for a knee replacement, but he wanted to try and do a Meniscus Repair surgery first and see if that would work. Ugh, I’ve been through this too many times before.
Ok, 6 months later, my knee still hurts, I think it hurts even worse now and the Orthopedic Surgeon wants me to come into his office. I made my arrangements, packed my bags and I was ready. Either way it’s gonna keep hurting.
When I got to his office he took some x-rays with me standing pigeon toed and he could see clearly that I had bone on bane contact in my left knee,
He asked me, When do you want to have a Knee Replacement Surgery? I said now!
I lost 80 pounds while I was in the hospital and another 20 pounds after I discharged. I got a blood infection and I had about 8 different doctors.
The good news is, I’m still alive, I learned to walk again for the second or third time and I already have the first 2 surgeries paid off.
This Knee Replacement Surgery I put on 2 of my credit-cards and I’m getting charged over 30% interest with a good credit score.
With the cost of living and the endless money printing and can barely afford to support my family and pay for the SUV, which I bought because the car transmission was burned out.
I have not been able to work since 2008 because of my health situations and I wasn’t accepted by Social Security Disability because I was not married with children at the time.
I have reapplied, but they say if you have $2000 in the bank you have too much money. If you make 35,000 a year, you make too much money.
I also applied for early retirement. I don’t know if I’ll get anything.
Here’s what I need.
$11,000 credit-card for my surgery.
$11,000 credit-card for my surgery.
Those 2 credit-cards payments are costing me $800 month minimum payment.
Plus I have another credit-card
$5000 credit card
God bless you all!
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