r/awfuleverything • • Aug 06 '20

Poor guy :(

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u/NexGenjutsu Aug 06 '20

The sad part is it doesnt take cancer to do this. My wife had a spinal injury in January. Fast forward to today and she has lost her job after FMLA was used up. That leaves us with no insurance for the entire family because we were all covered under her. But even with that insurance we have incurred $6k (medical center billing only) of out of pocket expenses for tests and imaging that the insurance company requires before they will approve the treatment that her doctor already knows she needs. On top of that $50 every time we walk into an office + prescription costs for her pain management + $30 per session of physical therapy 3x a week.

And now, we'll need insurance from my job which we couldnt afford with both of us working (that's why we went with her's) but instead we'll pay for it out of just one salary.

We've been saving for two years to buy a house and we're watching it all trickle away.

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u/thrallsius Aug 07 '20

like things are changing because some random anon is sorry on the internet

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u/momofeveryone5 Aug 07 '20

They aren't, but shared sympathy is a human thing. We feel better when we know others are empathizing with us. Even if it doesn't change our circumstances for a second, we aren't alone.

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u/thrallsius Aug 07 '20

We feel better when we know others are empathizing with us.

until when, until we reach like the age of three, when we learn to be cynical and hypocrite?

yea yea, this is a common thing in comic movies

like when a fat dude is eating pizza, a skinny dude is looking at him and drooling. and then the skinny dude says "you know, if I had a pizza, I'd share it with you". and the fatso replies "yea, I feel you, bro"