Aside from having numerous surgeries, finding out my grandma only has a couple of weeks to live and getting suspended without pay from my job because I was sick, I found out I have MRSA again. For those of you not familiar with MRSA, click here. It’s a super bad staph infection. A staph infection, if it reaches my blood, lungs or heart, will kill me within a matter of months. Yeah. I’d say that’s bad.
I took a picture of a car I made out of Zyvox, pills that treat MRSA, because the cost of those pills is more than most used cars. The cost for Zyvox? $97.00 per pill. That comes to $5,820.00 for pills. While I’ve been suspended from my job, I guess they, thankfully, have not suspended my benefits. This is only a one month supply, and I’m supposed to get a refill in a month. If there is no resolution with my job between then and now, I’m not sure what I’ll do.
I am not into playing the victim. I don’t like asking for help. I’m not that guy. However, I think all I’m going through right now is enough for me to make an exception in casting myself as the role of victim in the movie of my life for the last couple of weeks. If anyone out there wants to tell my story, send this link around. People need to know that corporations are treating people like me in a way I not only don’t deserve but in a way that is harming me physically and mentally. I’ve had 27 surgeries, have MRSA, again, and am spending a good amount of time wondering how to pay for bills. I’m not sure how people do it.
Once this is all said and done I’m going to do all I can to help those in need. People who have medical problems they have no control over and make sure these people aren’t hung out to dry by multi-billion dollar corporations. I never thought I’d be in the position I am, yet here I am.
Thanks for reading.
- Joel