...and the bills keep on coming and will for a while. So the anxiety, the fear and near shame of being uninsured, which started from the moment I became ill, has only worsened.
Unlike so many diaries right now, mine is not one of links and a call to action. No, unfortunately it is a story about the realities of our current health care system, a personal tale and one which I fear will end terribly for me and that in and of itself is enough of a call to arms I hope.
I have been coming to Daily Kos since the run up to the 2004 election, so I feel this is as good, if not the best forum, to tell my story. It thankfully isn’t one of ultimate medical tragedy; however it may well be one of financial ruin for me in the long run. What will seem to many like a rudimentary medical issue may well be ruinous for me I fear.
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