The Ongoing Battle
Someone just knocked on our door and handed my father a court summons. He's being sued by the hospital, for 21,000 dollars and some change. Unpaid medical bills, from when he didn't have insurance.
My father is a good man with bad luck. He has worked hard his entire life, and it has ALWAYS been a struggle. He's done so much to provide for us, so much to SUPPORT us kids...
March of 2012, Dad lost his job...and his insurance. That July he started a new job, but wasn't eligible for insurance until October (90 days). Well, just after he started the job, things went downhill with his health. Again. For 3 months we were uninsured, and he was in and out of the hospital, taking expensive IV treatments for infections, and fighting to keep his foot.
Diabetes is a nasty disease...
I'm sure most of the bills are actually from 2011, when he had his heart attack. Dad doesn't make a lot of money, and right now he's off of work, STILL battling infections in his foot (which started last July). He's had a toe removed, and most of the bone in his foot. He's had a lot of stress put on him.
Now this.
I don't know what to do. I don't know who to turn to. I don't know how to help.
They could take the house, my car, HIS car...
That's all we have.
My father is a good man with bad luck. He has worked hard his entire life, and it has ALWAYS been a struggle. He's done so much to provide for us, so much to SUPPORT us kids...
March of 2012, Dad lost his job...and his insurance. That July he started a new job, but wasn't eligible for insurance until October (90 days). Well, just after he started the job, things went downhill with his health. Again. For 3 months we were uninsured, and he was in and out of the hospital, taking expensive IV treatments for infections, and fighting to keep his foot.
Diabetes is a nasty disease...
I'm sure most of the bills are actually from 2011, when he had his heart attack. Dad doesn't make a lot of money, and right now he's off of work, STILL battling infections in his foot (which started last July). He's had a toe removed, and most of the bone in his foot. He's had a lot of stress put on him.
Now this.
I don't know what to do. I don't know who to turn to. I don't know how to help.
They could take the house, my car, HIS car...
That's all we have.