I've been in and out of various hospitals for the last year. in that same i went from being able to use a walker to being bed bound. As in, because my doors are narrow, I can't use my wheelchair to get in and out of my apartment. We call the local volunteer firemen to body lift me to a gurney just outside the front door.
This last batch of admissions pinpointed a bad kidney. It had a stone, and there was an abscess pocket of infection near it. My right kidney had only about 5% function, and my left is doing all the work. They put in a drain in the abscess and sent me home. When the drain acted up I was admitted in March, going from a local hospital to a bigger civillian one. I'm a veteran, so the va has been paying for my medical care for 20ish years. I was transferred to a va hospital finally, but not the one I was enrolled in. Then I was transfered again to my enrolled hospital.
They put more drains on me, and kept saying they were sending me home, but since I needed a nephrectomy (kidney removal), they'd just have to bring me back in an ambulance. Finally while they're talking about the surgery I get a bombshell. after the va had been paying for my care for 2 decades, someone decided since I left the air force before two years to have a baby, I suddenly didn't qualify for va care. I was told this when I had only 38 days of care remaining.
I got my surgery, and I went home as soon as the staples were out. The incision stretches across my chest just under my ribcage, so it was like 50 of them.
I've been struggling to sign up for civilian care services and agencies, and tomorrow is my last day of coverage. The va provides my prescription drugs. So need a new doc who can renew my meds.
We applied for a service related disability, and we've been encouraged to contact our (California) senator and congess person with my story, plus the va director and even the white house (ugh). But at this point, I'm desperate. The home care places the va paid for don't take medi-cal.
All this stuff hasn't done my depression and anxiety any good.
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