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well, i'm on public assistance for my health care. I have a mental health diagnosis of Bipolar I. I'm required to speak to my Doctor once a month at least and take medication - Olazapine 25mgs and Hydroxine 4 times a day or as needed 25 mg. I don't have too many symptoms anymore because i finally found the insulin to my diabetes - olazapine.
I try to pay my city, county, town, and state back for being on medicaid by hustling online as a pseudo-instructor, ministry, and ai assistant to those who may assist me in paying off my debts to a town that has given me so much. Their taxes provide me with the health care i need because without a doctor and medication I would end up in the ER once again for having an episode.
I try not to spend too much of money i don't have every day. i had to indirectly declare bankruptcy four years ago. I have a vice of being a smoker. 1 pack a day is about 10 bucks a day. But my Dad is a smoker too and he gets me a pack, but I know I have to quit. it's a luxury drug i can''t afford.
i'm just one tragedy away from being homeless, broke, and on the streets. i sleep on the couch. i havent had a bed in over five years.
but i am toothless. nothing i can do about that now.
no, what happened to me wasn't because i'm a bad person. it's just getting older into your 50s and falling on bad and hard times when those you love are dead and gone like my best friend and mom. happens to all of us as we age
and now i have dyslexia and short-term memory loss.
~emma ruth mccallister