Cassie J. Sneider is the author of the life-changingly hilarious book Fine Fine Music and the host of the monthly reading series THE WORST! in Brooklyn and San Francisco. The last time she had health insurance, she got a gold tooth to remind her of the good times.
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I’m one of the TM’d PPs…loved this. I am kind of amazed that you woke up after going to bed, though, seriously.
I really loved this. You’re a great storyteller.
hilarious, yet not funny to have to resort to such remedies!
Ha, this is so familiar to me. I once made a cast for a broken toe that wouldn’t heal out of cotton balls and a two dollar carton of plaster of paris. When I cut it off four weeks later, the toe that I’d set was straighter than all the rest. I’ve never been so proud of poor decision making in my life.
Oh my GOD. Reading this was like meeting my soulmate. I treat myself all the damn time out of a need to acquire no more hospital bills ever. I have a strange disease that causes me (in part) to produce very large kidney stones, and for the sake of people everywhere, I will not elaborate further. But dude. That moment of, “I have done this and now I can’t undo it and we’ll just wait and see if I survive now”? It’s a special place.
I am lucky enough to have had health insurance through a job for the last 7 of my 37 years. In the first thirty years, though, I used a pair of toenail clippers and (later) a school dissection kit to remove warts and moles, used other people’s prescriptions (including remaindered antibiotics) and street drugs to get through just about everything (including a decade of wisdom tooth pain), and spent 1 full year (29-30) with a non-stop stream of pus oozing out of my ear — which cost me hundreds of my very limited supply of dollars despite the fact that no one at the walk in clinic (where they made you pay $100 *before* they’d let you see anyone) could figure out what to do about it. The insurance-covered ENT who eventually fixed it cost me a $15 co-pay and then sent me to a phramacy, where the pharmacist asked for a hundred dollars, and then smiled, waiting for me to get the joke. I’d spent so many hundreds on (futile!) drugs for that ear I thought he was serious. But yeah, ha-ha, it was actually $10 because of the insurance. “Didn’t they teach you in pharmacy school that you shouldn’t tease sick people?” I asked him. “No,” he replied, “they taught us to take advantage of the weak and infirm.”
You are tough as nails, aren’t you? Glad you made it through, despite the shady dentist and the anaphylaxis…..
I laughed out loud at this. Can you set a blocker for WebMD? That is the scariest thing on the web
Hi there! This post couldn’t be written any better!
Going through this post reminds me of my previous roommate!
He continually kept preaching about this. I will send
this article to him. Fairly certain he will
have a very good read. I appreciate you for sharing!
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