Relle
I've got a friend who was never educated. His mother passed when he was about 6 years old, and the family whom he and his brother were sent to live with in Mississippi, didn't have the means to raise 2 boys, so he ended up being their labor. They were subsistence farmers. He talks of being strapped to the plow and seeing the other kids walking or bussing to school, wishing that he could join them.
Not being educated has impacted his entire life, & though a hard worker, it has been difficult 1/
Mar 10, 2023 at 4:14pmWeb
Show threadRelleMar 10, 2023

For him to break the chain of poverty.

Around Thanksgiving, he found out that he's got a blockage that was likely prostate cancer, and it's been so incredibly discouraging to watch his struggle with our medical system.
His main mode of transportation had been by bicycle, he biked home from the hospital and to get his medication a few miles away. With a catheter, he found that riding moved the catheter too much and caused infection.
Some of the medical bills are out of pocket, and without 2/

Show threadRelleMar 10, 2023
Savings or medical coverage, he's got to work to cover those charges. Working also moves the catheter enough to cause infections, so he's found himself back at the hospital a few times, and once by ambulance which is a huge out of pocket expense.
He wasn't scheduled for a biopsy until 2/21... about 3 months after it was first found/suspected he might have cancer. The results from that biopsy aren't coming back until 4/4 when he has a consult with the doctor on what to do- more than 5 months 3/
Show threadRelleMar 10, 2023

After they first discovered the blockage.
Meanwhile he tries to work and do odd jobs to pay off the medical debt he has since incurred, while $500 gets taken from his social security every month to pay for the rest.

What a way to treat your people, America.

We need a more compassionate and equitable healthy care system.

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