Medicine has come a million miles in distance of treatments over my lifetime, that’s for sure. Yet it still can not guarantee a spinal injury operation to work. Once you damage your back and neck or any part of your spine, you tend to never heal completely, and it cost a fortune to fix it. Medical costs in the United States are crazy, just try and get some medical attention and see for yourself when the bills start rolling in.
I live less then ten miles from two hospitals, in Connecticut here. I had a TIA stroke a few years back and an ambulance came and picked me up. The ride to the hospital one way cost me $5.000.00 dollars just the ambulance!. Then it was additional bills for the doctors and emergency room, by the time the bills all came in and totaled up, was 10,000.00 dollars for the medical problem., Why? These costs are crazy, but in my case, I sent all the bills to the Veteran’s Department and they covered and paid, because I am a disabled veteran. Luckily I have served my country and was injured in the line of duty or the costs would bury me alive.
Spinal injuries, even with the advancement of medicine the way it is, are still no guarantee to be fixed correctly or fully. I suffered my injuries in 1982 aboard a Naval Ship serving my country so I fall under Veteran’s Administration for help and care. So I have had on and off bouts of spinal problems which are slowly getting worse over the years and still they don’t like the odds to operate on me. SO I suffer the pain and now walk with a cane. It is all part of a disabled veteran’s life, just stop by any hospital and see for yourself.
I get my prescription for free my medical care for free and even my dental for free now. Lucky me! But I feel sorry for those who aren’t so lucky that is for sure the costs alone would give me heart failure to see if not for the Veteran’s Administration.
Each day millions upon millions of Veterans who served for America suffer from injuries ranging from lost of limbs and spinal injuries to head and mental injuries. And The Veteran’s Hospitals provide the best they can for sure. I only hope and pray they will always be there for me, because my condition gets worse each day. One day I may end up in a walker or wheel chair, but, I will never give up hope, or surrender until I die.
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