Health for the Dingle family
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I'm Shannon, widowed mom of six, and I need help. Our insurance plan has a $15,000 family deductible that must be paid before anything is covered.
Due to extreme medical costs in January, we’ll hit that before the end of the month. I expect our family’s 2023 medical expenses will exceed $15,000 by January 12.
(I promise, we’ve explored and are using every benefit and copay assistance program available. Our health expenses are simply high. This plan is the cheapest that allows us to continue with the mental health coverage we have and need.)
Before insurance, our lives cost:
- $6,800 one month’s IV administration of my monthly meds (taken monthly)
- $3,500 one month of HIV meds (also monthly)
- $2,400 one IV iron treatment (regularly, depending on her iron levels)
- $500 for each Long COVID clinic appointment
- $100-120 per therapy session (we have 5 each week)
With new freelance gigs, I’m able to save for next year’s deductible throughout this coming year, so I don’t anticipate this to be a recurring ask. We just need to get through our medical deductible costs for 2023, which will be coming at me fast.
Any extra money raised will go to payments for our wheelchair van and other medical expenses not covered by insurance.
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A few notes with more detail:
- I’m self-employed, which is necessary to be able to care for my kids, especially as most of them — and I — have extra medical costs (Long COVID, cerebral palsy, HIV, autism times 3, ADHD times 5, PTSD times 7, rheumatoid arthritis, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, endocrine disorders, several autoimmune conditions…). This means no employee-based health insurance. We use co-pay assistance programs whenever we can.
- Due to a new client and an increase in income (YAY!), most of us no longer qualify for Medicaid. We are in the gap of making enough to not qualify for support but not making enough to cover medical expenses.
- I promise we have investigated and are utilizing all possible helps. I’m not asking for advice — trust me, I’ve explored it all.
Fundraising team (2)
Shannon Dingle
Organizer
Raleigh, NC
Andrea Humphries
Team member
