Monday, November 30, 2009
My current status
Sometimes I feel so lonely, I spend pretty much all day by myself,
and you know sometimes you just feel a little down about it. I do
try to do things,but there isn't much you can do with no money.
When people talk about being broke, most of them truly don't
know what broke is. I mean if you were me you would understand. I
have like been basically living off my credit cards for the past
year and if I didn't have crediat cards I don't think I
would be writing this right now. My credit score is s---, I had an
excellent credit score only like 50-75 points away from the highest
credit score, but because I keep spending and am so close to my
spending limits, I no longer have good credit. I have a credit
score so low that it is only better than 30 percent of the U.S.
credit cardholders. I went from bing better than 90 prcent to 30
percent, that sucks so bad. I wish I could change that, but now in
life it seems like I can't. my biggest concern in lie right
now, is finding a way to survive. I have like 120 in my bank
account and about 420 left before I reach my credit limit. I have a
500 dollar prescription decutible to meet, a 500 dollar
doctor's visit deductible to meet, and a 500 dollar specialist
deductible to meet before my insurance covers anything. July was my
birthday and every year when everyone else is happily celebrating I
find it hard to because my insurance premium goes up every July. My
birthday is July 12th and my new premium is due July 1st, so it
puts a damper on my birthday. I dread the increase in my monthly
premium every year and also meeting my yearly deductible
before I can get insurance coverage I must pay full price. And then
you have to deal with doctor's offices who don't want to
accept your plan because it is a non-allowed amount an amount they
cannot charge you, but I hear that these state plan are government
subsidized. Someone was telling me that a lot of time government
subsideis take a long time to be recieved, but even still they are
mad at the wrong person, I think we are both mad at the same
person. I don't hate the fact or I am not upset at the fact
that I am a type 1 Diabetic, just frustrated and upst with the way
the current healthcare system works. Now the only thing I get
scared about is the fact that without insulin I could die. I
haven't work since last November and I only had like 200
dollars saved up then. I haven't been able to find a job and
over the past year I worked a seris of temporary positions. Oh yeah
I did do work study in the spring, but I only made enough to meet
my weekly transportation needs and had 20 dollars left over, to put
towards anything else I might have needed. Being a diabetic is
expensive espcially through my state sponsored plan MHIP (Maryland
Health Insurance Plan), which is ranked as being about average,
there are some state plans that do not cover pregnancy care or
mental health issues for people in the state sponsored plans. most
of which who hav pre-existing medical conditions. In Maryland we
have medically underwritten plans which means that if you don't
have insurance through place of employment you will be in the
denied coverage in any plan in the open market besides the state
sponsored plan if you have a medical condtion not fair, but hey
life's not fair. I say that this is a form of discrimination
because it leaves people with medical condtitions not many options
for healthcare and these are people who usually cannot go without
medical insurance, so in a way it feel like it's our
governments way of killing people. This is just my opinion of
course. So what will I do? I said to myself the other day Michelle
you are a beautiful girl in okay shape, do you want to di a painful
slow death or live. Some people say it sounds grim I am being
pessimistic, but the truth of the matter is that I am
insulin-dependent, without insulin I will die. If I can't
afford it, then I guess it's like you gotta pay the cost to
live, or die. It scares me I am afraid and there's no telling
how quickly it can take for someone to die without medication, you
can die in 24 hours or days or weeks, no one can tell, and
that's scary, i just think I would be upset if I died without
accomplishing anything in life. I asked myself am i so proud that I
will allow myself to die. I think I rather live without my pride
that die with it. So I am willing to do whatever I can to keep
myself alive and it really doesn't matter to m whther or not I
want to do it because I want to live so bad, that nothing to m can
be worst than dying.Coming from me it sounds funny I guess if you
know me because last month and plenty of months before that I was
trying to die, trying to kill myself, take my life. Last month I
was so upset one night I couldn't see clearly and I grabbed a
night and took a bath. I laid there trying to stab a knife in my
throat and slit my wrist, but the knife was so dull. I was so upset
and I made a plan for the next week to kill myself on my birthday.
I was going to jump off th roof on my birthday from my dads
apartment building. It was high enough that I think I would die if
I fell from there or if I survived I would be like brain dead or
something, so I wouldn't really know anything if I survived. I
can't explain exactly what changed over the past month I woke
up one day exubriated and jovial and I don't know why. Well
part of the reasons I think is a friend I madein school mad me
realize somethings and fel a litlle better finding little things in
life to make me happy. And he said one thing to me that kind of sat
with me and made me realize that if I have something that not
everyone has a true talent. He said that he didn't really care
for some of the things I wrote but he really loved the last thing
that I worte he said he read it over and over and really thought it
was nice. I have a very interesting writing style I would say and
he and other people everyone who read that poem loved it, it was my
Shakespeare insipired poem. So that made md happy and I would like
to put on a production in London next year of Julius Caesar, so I
wouildn't miss my opportunity to do that, not for the world. I
will visit the recontructed Globe theater the theatre of Shakepeare
my idol. That would be for me the opportunity of a life time.
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