At the risk of once again being told what an idiot I am, healthcare in America sucks. Thanks for the present though, mom. We need all the help we can get.

By the way, feel free to tell me how great my Photoshop skills are. Some people on Lemmy love to tell me how I’m not sick and just making it up for sympathy.

Sorry… is there a community for “I’ve been pissed off for months now?”

  • TotallyNotSpezEnglish
    66•3 months ago

    Happy birthday and get well soon. Your Photoshop is spot on and the American healthcare system is a joke. All the best from evil socialist Europe. 🖖

    • @[email protected]English
      8•3 months ago

      I don’t read names of posts all the time, but WOW do they create a lot of the content I see on Lemmy. Thank you FlyingSquid!!!

      • Flying SquidOPEnglish
        5•3 months ago

        Yep. As you have probably guessed, I have a lot of time on my hands dealing with this.

  • @[email protected]English
    21•3 months ago

    Having had cancer 20+ years ago as a teen I can vouch that the healthcare system here has ruined my life. Survived the stage 3 head cancer and the side effects? Wonderful! NOW PAY UP FOR THE REST OF YOUR PROGRESSIVELY WORSE LIFE! Ahh joys of unchecked capitalism.

    • Flying SquidOPEnglish
      13•3 months ago

      Cancer sucks. Fuck cancer. I’m sorry you had to go through that as a teenager. That makes it even worse. I hope you found a way to manage the side effects without being in too much pain or discomfort.

      • @[email protected]English
        5•3 months ago

        I’m alive so winning. Didn’t mean to be a downer on your birthday. We’re in this shit together. Hope your situation with medical improves!

        • Flying SquidOPEnglish
          2•3 months ago

          We definitely are, and thanks. No worries about the downer thing, I would be telling everyone about how I was screwed over by the system and my body when the subject came up too.

  • @[email protected]English
    18•3 months ago

    Hell yeah, a medical bill! Fuckin’ love throwing excessive amounts of money at basic human needs.

    I’m planning to get myself new tires when my birthday comes later this year 🙃

    • Flying SquidOPEnglish
      12•3 months ago

      Another excellent and fun thing to spend birthday money on!

        • Flying SquidOPEnglish
          9•3 months ago

          Yep. Especially since a huge storm came through yesterday and knocked down trees all over the neighborhood. We just got a quote to remove ours for $3500 and that doesn’t count whatever we will have to pay the neighbors for the damage to their garage. And then another tree destroyed our fence.

          I’m just glad our cards have been paid down after a tax windfall or we would be well and truly fucked.

  • @[email protected]English
    18•3 months ago

    Sorry… is there a community for “I’ve been pissed off for months now?”

    You new here? And by here, I mean Earth. I’ve been pissed off for decades. That’s just called being alive, and smart enough to observe your surroundings.

    • EleventhHourEnglish
      5•3 months ago

      I was gonna say… disgruntled people on the internet have been around probably since before OP was born… the grievances and bitching unleashed on Usenet and IRC back in the day could be legendary. ESP on IRC, where users and entire servers would go to war with each other.

      The Internet is pretty incredible now, but it used to be a hell of a lot more fun

      • Flying SquidOPEnglish
        4•3 months ago

        I agree, but I am on a level of pissed off most people cannot really imagine. Because food is the biggest part of our culture. There is literally nothing more important to our lives than food. You can look on any commercial street and see something to do with food. Advertisements, restaurants, stores, you name it and food is there. Even companies that do not have anything to do with food will have signs on their buildings with food on them. It’s pure torture to not be able to eat anything (which I wish I could do so badly) and it pisses me off to no end. And as it’s gone on longer and longer, it makes me more and more pissed off. I haven’t eaten a solid meal since last August, mostly living on 6 Ensures and 4 V8s a day.

        On top of this other issue, I have an extremely painful nerve disorder called trigeminal neuralgia which I’ve been dealing with for about 7 years. Because I won the fucking genetic lottery.

        So you can imagine how pissed off I am at this point. If I believed in a god, I would think they were punishing me. But I don’t. Some people have fucked up genetics even if it’s not outwardly obvious and I guess that’s me.

        On the other hand, I feel like I have it easy compared to the person that posted a reply that said they got over stage 3 cancer as a teen and have lifelong problems because of it. That would be a whole other level of pissed off I can’t even comprehend.

        • EleventhHourEnglish
          2•3 months ago

          I didn’t mean to come off as dismissive regarding your situation, simply to say that this isn’t a new phenomenon on the Internet.

          I apologize for any offense caused

          I’m very sorry to hear about your health problems, and I only wish you the best.

  • FireWire400English
    17•3 months ago

    Happy birthday, person I see everywhere I go on Lemmy (not that it bothers me or anything, I just find it funny how often I come across your posts)

    • Possibly linuxEnglish
      5•3 months ago

      Add 30% for the front desk, 40% for the doctor and 30% for the insurance company

    • Flying SquidOPEnglish
      10•3 months ago

      my birthday is near my cake day. I got the money a little early.

    • Flying SquidOPEnglish
      21•3 months ago

      Take your pick:

      Long-term illness bringing us down to one income.

      High medical bills.

      Having to use birthday money to help pay down those bills.

      People on the internet telling me I’m lying about it all…

        • @[email protected]English
          13•3 months ago

          The issue is that health insurance shouldn’t be tied to employment. This could very well be a payment plan for a much larger bill, so op is probably paying off $200 a month over a year or more.

          Not everyone is so blessed to have a low deductible plan. Most people have high deductible plans. Having a deductible of $6k or more is as good as being uninsured. Most people can not deal with paying $6k for an emergency - it can zero out folks bank accounts or be a hamper on their month to month budget.

        • @[email protected]English
          11•3 months ago

          Employer provided healthcare only covers about %54 of Americans. So in general it’s not a safe assumption.

        • Flying SquidOPEnglish
          10•3 months ago

          I haven’t been able to handle a job since last year, unfortunately.

  • go $fsck yourselfEnglish
    9•3 months ago

    Happy birthday!

    You make Lemmy a more pleasant place to be, not just with your many contributions of great memes, but more importantly with your overall friendly manner. You make a real difference. Thank you.