One of the saddest stories I ever read was the hard working, self employed carpenter who waited until he won the lottery to get a medical checkup.
He died of a preventable cancer because he couldn't afford to get seen
Oof. Sounds like too many of the people I know in the US :(
I work in hospice, and can't describe the anger and sadness I have at moments. I say moments because if I let it fester I'd be of no help.
Like the young woman that recently passed - a few years ago she was diagnosed with extremely high blood pressure in her 30s, so had to go on medication. Shortly after she lost her job and couldn't afford it, so quit talking her meds. Next thing you know she had a stroke. A couple years later she has complications leading to another event, and now she's dead.
Because lifesaving medicine and healthcare is too expensive, parents watched their child die.
Parents watched their child die
One of the things that stopped me from committing suicide at my lowest point a few years ago, was my mom asking me to break the tradition in our family of mothers burying their sons.
This is unrelated, but it reminded me and it's never a bad time to remind people that they matter to someone I suppose
I hate knowing that there are a lot of stories like this one :( this country does not care for its people like it could.
Since this is a shitpost, was it butt cancer?
Leukemia and bone marrow with a list of other things but I do have a sore on my ass
Hey you should get HIV too so then if they have to nuke your bone marrow and then replace it with someone else's you can get cured and and up in the news.
To late I don't think they let hookers in hospital
She can sneak in dressed as a nurse.
Doubt I could even get it up
I think an erection is not necessarily needed for infection to occur, but it might help with the... logistics.
No joke, get screened my dudes! Sorry about your ass sore OP
What prompted the screening? How does that even work? Like “Doc I don’t feel right, can I get a cancer-check?”
Yeah just go in ask for blood work they are doctor's that's what they do
I'm not intending to be that person but are you a male? Cause many women I know have asked for blood work when things don't feel right and are turned away (and there are statistics on that statement).
I'm glad your cancer got caught and is curing up though! I just can't imagine, after the experiences I've had with doctors, being like "oh no can you just run this test" and them just doing it.
I went to an emergency room acting like a fool doc thought it was cancer and sent me on a months long multi state trip now I'm in a clinical study
Oh cancer shows up in bloodwork? I thought you needed a scan for that.
I ended up getting a bunch of tests when I was acting all weird it's been months of weird tests and biopsy to find out but they do have screenings that can detect stuff
Did you have any symptoms?
Mental clarity and I didn't even know it I had a big fall one night and I was dragged to the hospital changed my life I thought I just had depression
Hopefully the mental clarity will eventually help the part of your brain that uses punctuation.
Sorry, I had to! Congrats on a diagnosis and treatment for real though.
I doubt I've always been a dumb sob
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