What Is It Like For Me To Be Penniless With A Situation Like I Have Now
You would not believe how hard I gripped a twenty peso bill in my hand during the times when I have no means to help myself or income that I can create like now, it was the most down time for me considering my need to sustain my medical expenses which are not cheap to support.
So I thank God that I have had a brother that supported me right from the start. He and me has the common likes even though he never touched cryptocurrency all his life despite my effort to make him involve in it. Without his financial support I wouldn't have owned a second-hand computer that I used to introduce myself in the internet and the rest is just history in the making.
Being penniless and at the same time being a dialysis patient is not a good combination. In the first years of being on dialysis I had heard stories of well-to-do patients getting so poor because of the expense involved with dialysis until the help coming from the government health insurance eased-up many patient's financial burden until some a compromise had set to make them get more dialysis by taking-off the EPO injections that comes along with the #Philhealth insurance.
Philhealth partnered-up with the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office #PCSO to aid or support the dialysis patient's need for an extra EPO injection to correct Anemia which are so common for DPs. Only four injections they can give for every patient that will apply for that assistance, at least in my province, so those that applied can get 16 injections per year.
If the patient needs more then they have to get assistance elsewhere like from the Mayor or Congressman. Fortunately now the EPO injections are cheaper to buy compared a few years ago because a few years ago it can be bought at the drugstores for $30, $40, $50, or even $70 in dollars equivalent considering that a dialysis patient has to have it about at least once per week.
That is why when I was still bale to walk I would go to the capital manila to get an assistance to get at least four to six injections of it and the travel to Manila is also not that cheap as well and once I get it I will just inject one once per month!
Certainly not enough which is why maybe my body had probably made a way to adapt to make its own erythropoietin source elsewhere or it could be a form of adaptation that science doesn't know of because I am only one of the few patients that doesn't require EPO injections anymore because it doesn't crash anymore to dangerous levels.
Dialysis cost out of pocket is a major burden already not considering the fact that a dialysis patient needs a regular EPO injection if not blood transfusions in order to correct anemia not to mention a regular blood laboratory analysis at a regular basis and if you are poor you will not survive.
I had some co-patients that just cannot sustain their needs anymore that they stopped and suffer the most terrible process of death there is. I am just fortunate enough receiving the mercy of God that at least I am able to survive acquiring the means to support my needs "for now" even though my original goals are still not realized but only this recent bone health improvement that I am experiencing because of a simple vitamin nutrient called vitamin K2 MK-7 which improved my sense of well-being.
I do not want to be penniless anymore, it had caused me and my parents to feel so lower than the low as if I am like a trash at the roadside. Going to charity hospitals makes you feel the same, desperate and hopeless not to mention not getting to proper treatment that you needed. So raising-up my capacity to help myself had freed me from having to worry if something uneventful happens because at least I have something with me to patch it up compared to just submitting myself to the mercy of others. Thanks be to God and my friends around the world and my family.
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