Sometimes life can hit you with a curve ball, and then it'll do it in a continuous repetitious stream one after the other.
Sometimes, you have no choice but to keep taking these hits one after another.
Hello everyone, my name is Charles Smith.
My wife and I have been struggling due to a variety of factors that have happened all within the past 6 months. I myself had a big medical scare last July, we managed to get by on that with what little we had. But that's quickly transitioned to my wife's own medical needs.
Kelly is a self-employed artist by trade, she uses her hand on a regular basis every day and around September she started receiving twinges of pain throughout her wrist and arm, and it has been a constant off and on again problem until now wgere it has been amplified tremendously. Some days it's non-existent, some days it's excruciating.
When this first started happening, we discovered that the medical insurance that she had, had expired due to her turning 26. Something that neither one of us knew unfortunately. So using the resources we had, we managed to get her an x-ray, which suggested that she had a fracture of her ulna at the wrist. We immediately went and saw an emergency Orthopedic clinic, who proceeded take more x-rays and for them to tell us "No it's fine, here's a brace and some meds wait a while."
However, the brace and the prescription did nothing to help except give us a nice bill.
When we inferred back to them for help, they basically told us sorry we can't help you and the last conversation with that emergency clinic was being hung up on.
Since then, we have found a clinic that has taken us seriously. They prescribed her some pain medication and we proceeded to wait until we could add her to my job's insurance.
In January, this has come to pass and we've gone back to see them and have gotten a referral to see a specialist and it seems we may end up having to have some style of surgery we're not fully sure quite yet.
Now, it's been 6 months of jumping back and forth with all of this and it seems like we're on the proper path. But this has been on mostly a single income as Kelly has only been able to help with what she can. And as anyone in America knows the health care system can be quite the unreasonable money sink.
Unfortunately this is not where this story ends.
Within the past couple of weeks my job has decided to "restructure" it's personal. And in the ensuing chaos a lot of rather negative things have happened there. due to fear of anyone from said company finding this and proceeding to issue repercussions I'm neither going to elaborate to far or name. Just understand an ultimatum was issued to me that didn't really put me in a nice situation. But I will say this, I've worked there five years, and never had a single complaint or write up against me. This is just how it goes in retail sometimes, and you have no say in the matter.
So to be honest I'm not sure how long this is going to last, but I refuse to just give up as I have someone to take care of.
And finally,
A few days ago, our only car/means of transportation decided to break on us, something that happened 3 months ago as well and caused a giant mound of problems. So currently the two of us are without transportation and I am pulling every amount of strings I can just to get too and from work. We're currently looking into possibly getting a new one, but this of course leads to some kind of down payment if not a car note on top of all the other things.
Now then,
I want to make a clear statement about this. This is just one fragment of one story of a multitude of people. Everyone in life has a story, some worse then others. And by the grace of a few good people the two of us have been able to make it this far.
If it wasn't for the suggestion of a good friend I probably never would have even made this.
But if you feel kind enough to help, in any way possible. If you feel like helping this couple you may not have ever met down the path of their individual stories. Anything and everything would mean the world to the two of us. And even if you can't, thank you for just taking the time to read this. We know, and understand that life is tough, and not everyone is fortunate enough to be able to handle everything on their own, and if you can't we both still appreciate you and your time spent here.
Thank you.