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As many of you may already know I am diabetic. This has brought many challenges to my life. In the past 5 years I have lost vision in my left eye as a complication from this and this past year, in February, I was unfortunately diagnosed with end-stage renal (kidney) failure.
After spending the entire month of February in Stony Brook University Hospital, I was released in the beginning of March. Roughly two weeks after that I was once again hospitalized due to pancytopenia (a shortage of red blood cells,white blood cells, and platelets in the body). After a two week stay in Good Samaritan Hospital which included multiple blood transfusions and a biopsy of my bone marrow. I was released the day before Easter. About two weeks later, my cell counts dropped again and I spent that weekend in Good Samaritan once again.
While in no way is this a death sentence of any sort, the diagnosis does come with its share of headaches and hurdles. I now have to see a litany of specialists regularly in addition to receiving treatments three times a week at roughly 5.5 hours each treatment until I receive a kidney transplant.
I have tried for the entirety of my life to deal with these things on my own and it has not worked out well. This has kept me out of work for all but two months of this calendar year. While insurance does cover a lot of the medical costs it does not by any means cover all of them, The cost of monthly dialysis treatments AFTER INSURANCE is still a whooping $1300. This in addition to bills from the month long hospital stay in Stony Brook and the time Good Samaritan , in addition to various blood work and doctors visits not entirely covered by my insurance. led to several thousand dollars in bills. I have been able to obtain a secondary insurance which will help absorb some of that cost moving forward but for the past 6 months the medical bills and expenses have been accruing exponentially.
I am reaching out to try to get some help with these costs. I know that I've waited quite a while to do this but I've realized that I cannot do this on my own and that this is indeed what these platforms are best suited for. Thank you to all who have taken the time to read this.
After spending the entire month of February in Stony Brook University Hospital, I was released in the beginning of March. Roughly two weeks after that I was once again hospitalized due to pancytopenia (a shortage of red blood cells,white blood cells, and platelets in the body). After a two week stay in Good Samaritan Hospital which included multiple blood transfusions and a biopsy of my bone marrow. I was released the day before Easter. About two weeks later, my cell counts dropped again and I spent that weekend in Good Samaritan once again.
While in no way is this a death sentence of any sort, the diagnosis does come with its share of headaches and hurdles. I now have to see a litany of specialists regularly in addition to receiving treatments three times a week at roughly 5.5 hours each treatment until I receive a kidney transplant.
I have tried for the entirety of my life to deal with these things on my own and it has not worked out well. This has kept me out of work for all but two months of this calendar year. While insurance does cover a lot of the medical costs it does not by any means cover all of them, The cost of monthly dialysis treatments AFTER INSURANCE is still a whooping $1300. This in addition to bills from the month long hospital stay in Stony Brook and the time Good Samaritan , in addition to various blood work and doctors visits not entirely covered by my insurance. led to several thousand dollars in bills. I have been able to obtain a secondary insurance which will help absorb some of that cost moving forward but for the past 6 months the medical bills and expenses have been accruing exponentially.
I am reaching out to try to get some help with these costs. I know that I've waited quite a while to do this but I've realized that I cannot do this on my own and that this is indeed what these platforms are best suited for. Thank you to all who have taken the time to read this.