Thread by @rogpog29

I have no followers so I'm sure this post will be a waste of #TwitterSpace. I have personally been blessed and cursed by the whole medical system most of my life. To start off, my father shot himself when I was 7 due to mental health issues. Back then depression and bipolar 👇🏼

was treated with drugs like Valium. He had a really low moment and boom. “Tell Roger I’m sorry” is what they told me he said. I was introduced to #oxycontin at the ripe age of 15. My first dose was 40mg and I was sick as a dog for hours. That would trigger a lifelong battle 👇🏼

With addiction to #opiods. After my mom abandoned me when I was 16 and after some time in a homeless shelter
then rehab, I began to get my life together at age 22. 23 im married and doing ok and wreck an #ATV (4-wheeler) off a mountain in #NorthCarolina and become #paralyzed👇🏼

from the waist down. The past 17 years have been pure hell. Not because I was disabled and learning how to live again. Not because after the accident I was prescribed #methadone #oxy #xanax #antidepressants and more causing years of struggle. But because the #healthcare system 👇🏼

Does not truly help anyone in a way that provides longevity. I’ve experienced firsthand that the goal of the healthcare system is to make as much money as they can, while they can off sick people. The worst part is how the government keeps printing money and then they call it👇🏼

#Medicare to give out to all the crooked hospitals and #doctors at the expense of the oblivious #taxpayer. I have felt guilty about this part for years. I would bet my on the fact that between #Medicaid and Medicare, it has cost the “government” (at your expense) 👇🏼

Several million dollars to just keep me alive for the past 17 years. I’ve been hospitalized at least 2 to 3 times a year and most stays have been 4-6 weeks. This year alone I’ve spent 83 days in hospital. Speaking of if anyone reads this and feels like they can help here 👇🏼

Is my #GoFundMe gofund.me/a6abcd78 🤷🏻‍♂️ Worth a shot right? But wait there’s more 👇🏼

I’ve had bedsores for 16 years with 3 failed surgeries to repair them. The reason the surgeries failed is that they didn’t get all of the infection out of my pelvis before trying to close me up. So after 16 years of bedsores literally to the bone I have been so overtreated 👇🏼

with antibiotics that I am carrying a #superbug and have been on #omadacycline aka #Nuzyra which was just #FDA approved in 2018. This is the only antibiotic that I am aware of from what the infectious disease Dr has said that will treat this # vancomycin-resistant bacteria. 👇🏼

This antibiotic alone is $15k per 30 tablets and I’ve been on it 2 months and counting. The doctors are now telling me my only option to avoid dying soon is getting a #Hemicorporectomy which consists of fully amputating the lower half of my body. This includes removing the 👇🏼

and oh so much more. I’m refusing to do this and hoping to live just a little longer since my daughter is 21 and my son is 16. I just need a few more years with them and I’ll be ready to call it a day. I share all this not for pity really but to express how I feel the whole👇🏼

the medical structure is set up to create customers instead of healing people. I would give anything to go back 17 years. I would not change becoming paralyzed because it has made me who I am today, but I would change being so naive and thinking the doctors care and even 👇🏼

realize they don’t know what they are doing half the time. I shoulda realized this right off the bat when they called it a medical “practice”. Don’t get me wrong. I would have died long ago had it not been for some of the treatments I have received. But that probably would👇🏼

of being a more natural part of life than what I have been through the past several years. Trying to be a dad and still find ways to earn income without losing my Medicare while battling chronic illnesses like #anemia #lowmagnesium #uti’s and of course my lovely #boneinfection 👇🏼

That has eaten my bones down to nothing. If you click on the @gofundme you can see the missing parts of bone in the X-ray. So I’m thankful and disappointed all at the same time. Hope any of that made sense. I wanted to share all that. If you read this and care TY

Like I said I really am a thankful person for all God has given me and for allowing me to live this long. I just hate how much pain and suffering people like me must endure just to survive and be dragged along by a broken system that just cares about profits…

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