I'm going to the hospital
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[Updated] Running total of billed costs so far: $7,426
There are a number of very good and not so good reasons I don't have medical insurance. I won't bore you with most of them. The one I think is most pertinent is that I live in Texas and governors Rick Perry and Greg Abbot decided my not having insurance was less important than ensuring a system in which a hated political rival had the least success possible.
I'm about to go to the hospital with a seeping wound in my left pubic region. It is likely I will be sent home with with a prescription for oral antibiotics and an ER bill I can't pay.
You might be wondering why I put such a high goal on this campaign. This has happened to me before. That time I took the antibiotics as prescribed and came back to be reevaluated three days later. At which point I was admitted to the hospital for over a month, required surgery and had an expensive wound vac on my leg for another two months.
If the oral antibiotics work, I will lower the goal. I want to be ready if they don't. Regardless, all donations in excess of my own medical bills, which I will share as they come in, I will forward on to others in my situation.
Please consider helping me out.
EDIT: Some people have expressed an interest in contributing by check rather than electronically. If you or someone you share this campaign with wishes to cut a paper check, please send it to:
Jonathan Bell
PO Box 670808
Dallas, TX 75367
There are a number of very good and not so good reasons I don't have medical insurance. I won't bore you with most of them. The one I think is most pertinent is that I live in Texas and governors Rick Perry and Greg Abbot decided my not having insurance was less important than ensuring a system in which a hated political rival had the least success possible.
I'm about to go to the hospital with a seeping wound in my left pubic region. It is likely I will be sent home with with a prescription for oral antibiotics and an ER bill I can't pay.
You might be wondering why I put such a high goal on this campaign. This has happened to me before. That time I took the antibiotics as prescribed and came back to be reevaluated three days later. At which point I was admitted to the hospital for over a month, required surgery and had an expensive wound vac on my leg for another two months.
If the oral antibiotics work, I will lower the goal. I want to be ready if they don't. Regardless, all donations in excess of my own medical bills, which I will share as they come in, I will forward on to others in my situation.
Please consider helping me out.
EDIT: Some people have expressed an interest in contributing by check rather than electronically. If you or someone you share this campaign with wishes to cut a paper check, please send it to:
Jonathan Bell
PO Box 670808
Dallas, TX 75367
Organizer
Jonathan M Bell
Organizer
Dallas, TX
