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Mental Health Support

OldBaldy1701E

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20. Only the well insured can afford it.

Reply to ShazzieB (Reply #19)

Mon Jun 16, 2025, 07:37 AM

Jun 16

I am glad you have Medicare, but that will be going the way of the dodo soon enough.

They don't want us to live. They don't want anyone who is not working themselves into an early grave to make the oligarchs richer to exist.

You either have it, or you are nobody. I am a nobody. Which is why I will die in agony and alone. Because I am not 'worthy' of their crumbs.

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I just discovered a series of wounds on my right foot. [View all] OldBaldy1701E Jun 15 OP

So sorry. Perhaps your local Diabetes association could help. sinkingfeeling Jun 15 #1

I suppose I should try them. OldBaldy1701E Jun 15 #9

you HAVE worth....((hugs)) samnsara Jun 15 #2

Thanks. OldBaldy1701E Jun 15 #10

Good luck, I really sympathize and hope you get better. I know medical care in this country sucks. Walleye Jun 15 #3

Medical care in this country is great. OldBaldy1701E Jun 15 #11

Only the rich can get it...or the well insured. ShazzieB Jun 15 #19

Only the well insured can afford it. OldBaldy1701E Jun 16 #20

Don't agree with the suicide bombers analogy. But agree applegrove Jun 15 #4

Well, the fact that sometimes people in pain and despair feel the need to do something not matter what it is... OldBaldy1701E Jun 15 #12

Foot ulcers justaprogressive Jun 15 #5

Yep. My mother was a triage nurse for over four decades. OldBaldy1701E Jun 15 #13

diabetes got one of my toes rampartd Jun 15 #6

I have developed a reaction to antibiotics. OldBaldy1701E Jun 15 #14

Being diabetic with foot lesions.... FarPoint Jun 15 #7

I set up an appointment for next Tuesday. OldBaldy1701E Jun 15 #15

Oh, dear Bayard Jun 15 #8

A 'diabetic specialist'? OldBaldy1701E Jun 15 #16

Medicaid is income-based, not age-based Lulu KC Jun 15 #17

Sorry, that was confusing. OldBaldy1701E Jun 15 #18