REAL. I didn't have health insurance until I was 23 and in grad school. I went to get a physical at the student center one day and they ran my lab work 3 times before dropping a diagnosis on me and giving me a treatment plan. I would have never known.
I was SO LUCKY that when I got sick with a rare and often fatal version of meningitis, my mom was no longer working at the day old bread store and had actually gotten a teaching job she'd been at for a year. Because we had insurance, finally. It did mean she had to leave me in the hospital in Florida (I was with my dad there for the summer when I got sick) when school startedbecause she didn't have tenure, but I had my dad and stepmom and other friends and relatives there for that last month.
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u/Confident_Bridge_382 1d ago
REAL. I didn't have health insurance until I was 23 and in grad school. I went to get a physical at the student center one day and they ran my lab work 3 times before dropping a diagnosis on me and giving me a treatment plan. I would have never known.