[LJ Idol 9: Week 6] Scar

[cheshire23]

I carry a scar in the palm of my hand - a small, raised divider that neatly bisects my life line

Comments

[roina_arwen]

Health care is so expensive, I feel you on this!

[cheshire23]

It is. It's so frustrating. Between the insurance and the co-pays it's probably somewhere between 10 and 15 percent of my income. I do have good, comprehensive insurance, but I don't have access to sliding-scale programs for the girls that I'd otherwise be eligible for because of where I work. :P

[basric]

You were lucky you didn't get an infection. Well written.

[cheshire23]

Ugh, I know, and all the more so now after that whole "well, we don't want to SAY it's MRSA, but that's basically how we're treating it..." thing I went through the last several months.

[kickthehobbit]

But I didn't go, so I don't know.

That line really got me. This entire piece is excellent, but the not-knowing, the soldiering-on-through...it's rough and you convey it really well.

[cheshire23]

One decision that made sense at the time when I was 20, and I still wonder just how much harm it actually did.

[reckless_blues]

I responded to this very much ... I hurt my legs when I was younger, even when I got better, I never moved again with that same freedom.

[cheshire23]

It's the combination of fearing the pain and fearing the loss of use that seems to drive its own loss of use.

[itsjustc]

I enjoyed reading this.

And again I am thankful for the NHS!

[cheshire23]

I wish we could have something like that here. I really do.