Yes, I’ve already posted today. Then I read a story on another blog, and I had to write this, too.<\/p>\n
A while ago, I was reading Tertia’s blog <\/a>and saw that she asked her legions of readers (around 2,000 a day) to help raise money for her nanny, Rose. Rose is a black woman living in South Africa, and for health reasons wanted to get breast reduction surgery. I am in no way commenting on the worthiness of Rose’s surgery, but I have to admit that I did raise my eyebrow – okay, I rolled my eyes. I’m happy that Rose has someone as influential as Tertia to help her, and it seems they raised enough to cover the $3000 or so required for the surgery.<\/p>\n Then I read a story about a 34 year old graduate student in in the United States whose husband has terminal liver cancer. Dean Dad<\/a> mentioned her story on his blog, and I followed the links to Mary’s blog<\/a>. Mary doesn’t know the grad student, who blogs under the name Badger, but has taken it upon herself to organize a Paypal account to help the struggling family with their overwhelming medical bills. I lifted this quote of Badger’s <\/a>blog from Mary’s blog, and it broke my heart:<\/p>\n Here’s a quote from a Live Journal post<\/a> she wrote last spring:<\/p>\n “Cost to date for surgery, CT-scans, hospital stays, doctors\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 visits, and labwork: $79,000. Insurance benefit left for year: $21,000. Days left until new benefit year: 145. Response from Social Security Administration when I went down to their office with our 2004 tax returns to prove our lack of income: Priceless. Now, things are difficult because of the expense of the medication Mr. Badger needs for pain. Here’s another quote posted on her blog in July after a trip to the pharmacy to pick up a new, stronger prescription for morphine:<\/p>\n “Pharmacist<\/em>: Oh, we didn’t fill the entire prescription. Your insurance company says you have reached the limit on your prescription benefit. Can you guess which fund I donated to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yes, I’ve already posted today. Then I read a story on another blog, and I had to write this, too. A while ago, I was reading Tertia’s blog and saw that she asked her legions of readers (around 2,000 a day) to help raise money for her nanny, Rose. Rose is a black woman living … Continue reading “Two stories”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nothing I can do for you. Come back in two years.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
Prognosis of someone with stage four liver cancer: 3 months.”<\/p>\n
Badger<\/em>: Oh!
Pharmacist<\/em>: You would’ve had to have paid for the prescription out-of-pocket, which would’ve been over $400, so we’ve only given you a few pills.
Badger<\/em>: Oh.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n