Hey, so pretty much what the title says. I’m currently 20 years old and I’m a single mother to an almost two year old boy. I go to school and I work three jobs (very limited hours for all three). Due to my health I’ve missed a lot of work, and I think my employers are hitting their breaking point with me because today I had to call in 30 minutes before the class I teach because my car broke down and I have no way of getting to work. I have this gut feeling I’m gonna get fired soon for my lack of attendance even though I really haven’t been able to help it.
Anyway, I got all my jobs in the beginning of January and about a month and a half ago I started having health issues which made it hard for me to work due to the pain. I had strep the first week, and then the next few weeks I was dealing with a tonsillar abscess that I ended up having to get emergency surgery for because it was starting to suffocate me in my sleep and I wasn’t able to talk anymore without sounding like I had a stroke due to the pain.
Before the surgery, I asked the hospital if they took my insurance and I was told they did and then they came back again and said they pretty much take every insurance because they’re the only hospital in our area. The other hospital here burnt down in one of the California fires a couple years ago and that’s where I normally went for things because my insurance was through them. So, I asked them if they possibly knew how much my insurance would cover and they were like we don’t know that so we can’t tell you and I accepted it because I figured it would cover at least most of it, right? Lol wrong. My total was about $37,000 and my insurance only offered to cover $3,000 of it so now I’m in $34,000 in debt that I have no way of affording.
What exactly am I suppose to do? My sons birthday is in two weeks and I can’t even afford to buy him presents. I just don’t have any money to my name.
And sorry if this was a really chaotic read, I’m stranded in a parking lot in my broken down car and everything is kind of hitting me right now.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated because I have no idea how to get myself out of this hole.
Submitted March 06, 2020 at 07:28PM by fannyclan https://ift.tt/3aDTIip
