ENDO Messages for November, 2005: to lorra

to lorra

From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue Nov 29 12:17:17 2005

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hi lorra -

sorry you are having such a bad time - if there is anyway you can get insurance NOW you should do it.

yes, there are public options, but my experience with the clinics and the public hospital has been horrible. they all want to give you lupron, and ask "are you planning to have children...?" then when i say well, i'm not sure (i am 40) they start talking hysterectomy. at my supposed pre-op i wasn't even allowed to meet the operating doctor - she was too busy. everytime i try to call the office, it takes at least 20 minutes to even get a human on the phone - and the nurses say they will "try" to get a message to her??? then they pass me to the main operator who can never understand why i'm being pawned off on her so she can try to page the doctor, but the doctor never answers the page either.

i'm about ready to max all my credit cards to pay for surgery, then i'll default on them - i'll be ruined financially, but maybe i'll have my health/life back? for a while, at least?

my parents could help me, but they'd have to mortgage their house to pay for me to be treated by an endo specialist, and they aren't interested in that to say the least.

i'm in pain everyday, can't work fulltime, and i get people telling me stuff like "get a job at starbucks - they'll give you insurance!" no, no one "gives" you insurance, and i'd have to wait 6-12 months because the endo would be considered a "pre-existing condition." there are no easy answers for endo, but not having insurance makes it pretty much impossible to get any good answers - unless you can afford them. it's incredibly depressing, and i often wish i could just disappear - my family thinks i'm lazy malingerer, and i completely blame myself for being in this situation.

i really hope you can get insurance and some good help!

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