Help Me Pay Off My Hospital Bill
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On Oct 2nd, 2020, I woke up with my entire body covered in hives. This had never happened to me before. I took Benadryl thinking it was just an allergic reaction to something (I'm not really allergic to anything) but it just kept getting progressively worse as the day went on. Here is the podcast episode I did on that day: https://anchor.fm/thirdeyecyphs/episodes/S2-Ep-15-The-Chakra-SCAM--Hives-----Is-the-World-Ending-ekgobv
Throughout the day, the hives kept moving around and spreading to my face, my eyelids, inside my nose, and eventually my throat. I began to lose my voice and have trouble breathing. My skin burned all over and was boiling hot to touch. I ended up calling an uber for myself to the hospital. At the time, I did not have health insurance.
The hospital gave me over 7 pills of antihistamines, painkillers, and nausea reducers. After over an hour of watching for the results of the medicine, nothing helped. They then used an Epipen. After 4 hours of waiting to see the results of that, I was finally discharged with Anaphlaxsis and now have to carry an Epipen around with me in case it happens again.
Following this event, I went to an allergist to take an allergy test to see what could have caused this. They found nothing.
The end result was that the allergist figured this was due to stress.
The day before this happened to me, I was very stressed about many things including financial problems and workloads.
I know this is completely ridiculous but I'm grateful it happened in order for me to inform people about the dangers of not managing mental health and stress.
To cut this long story short, since I did have no insurance at the time, I was hit with 2 bills from the hospital that day. The first being $1,900 which I luckily got brought down to $900 and have now finally Feb. 2021 finished paying off. The next, a bill for over $6K that went into collections.
I am trying my best to pay off what I can but I can only pay about $150 every month which is still a lot for me knowing I make less than 1.5K a month from my day job, pay my cats vet bills (bc she has health problems too), pay my new health insurance (so this doesn't happen again), my 1.1K monthly rent, my phone bill, feed myself and my cat, and try and save money for emergencies. It's nearly impossible.
At the rate that I will be paying, I will not be done paying it off until Jan. 2024.
I am looking for any assistance and feel even ridiculous making this GoFundMe. If you can donate anything at all even $1 this absolutely helps.
THANK YOU and I literally love you :')
Throughout the day, the hives kept moving around and spreading to my face, my eyelids, inside my nose, and eventually my throat. I began to lose my voice and have trouble breathing. My skin burned all over and was boiling hot to touch. I ended up calling an uber for myself to the hospital. At the time, I did not have health insurance.
The hospital gave me over 7 pills of antihistamines, painkillers, and nausea reducers. After over an hour of watching for the results of the medicine, nothing helped. They then used an Epipen. After 4 hours of waiting to see the results of that, I was finally discharged with Anaphlaxsis and now have to carry an Epipen around with me in case it happens again.
Following this event, I went to an allergist to take an allergy test to see what could have caused this. They found nothing.
The end result was that the allergist figured this was due to stress.
The day before this happened to me, I was very stressed about many things including financial problems and workloads.
I know this is completely ridiculous but I'm grateful it happened in order for me to inform people about the dangers of not managing mental health and stress.
To cut this long story short, since I did have no insurance at the time, I was hit with 2 bills from the hospital that day. The first being $1,900 which I luckily got brought down to $900 and have now finally Feb. 2021 finished paying off. The next, a bill for over $6K that went into collections.
I am trying my best to pay off what I can but I can only pay about $150 every month which is still a lot for me knowing I make less than 1.5K a month from my day job, pay my cats vet bills (bc she has health problems too), pay my new health insurance (so this doesn't happen again), my 1.1K monthly rent, my phone bill, feed myself and my cat, and try and save money for emergencies. It's nearly impossible.
At the rate that I will be paying, I will not be done paying it off until Jan. 2024.
I am looking for any assistance and feel even ridiculous making this GoFundMe. If you can donate anything at all even $1 this absolutely helps.
THANK YOU and I literally love you :')
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Natalia Lee Gonzalez
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Pasadena, CA
