It’s becoming increasingly hard for myself and my family to survive in this economy. Myself and my family are teetering in the edge. I hope there’s some relief soon. I lost my job back in 2021 and went I to business for myself. 5 years ago under Trump’s economy I think I could survive and grow without a problem. Now… a trip to the grocery store costs $500 and running up cards left and right because our two incomes combined still isn’t enough. That doesn’t even touch on all the other things like our healthcare going up etc. 3 kids… I am praying people will make their moves soon to take this thing back and get it under control. I don’t know how much time I have left. I wish there was a relief opportunity for those of us who know and trust the plan to get by until it’s fixed. LoL
It’s becoming next to impossible for myself and my family to survive.
🧘Mental/Physical Health 🏋🏼♂️
I lost my trust in doctors. That has saved a lot of money in healthcare costs. I'm taking much better care of my health now, and living like doctors don't exist.
I've been to the doctor twice in my life, what a waste of time, regret both times.
Doctors are for if it's broken or bleeding. Otherwise take care of yourself
Tore ligaments on my knee, they did xray, no MRI, found nothing broken, gave me a bunch of pain pills I never took and sent me home $5k in debt within 2 hours. Could not even bend my knee to poop for a month, couldn't walk for 3 months.
I could not play soccer for 8 years until I started working standing on my feet a couple years ago, it was like therapy and that was all I needed. I am now playing soccer wondering why I pursued a career in tech without a college degree. Sitting for 12 hour days, sleeping in the office to sit all day long, to get fired on personal bullshit when Trump got elected... Fucking democrats
Doctors will not care for you even by accident, in my experience, they are trying to buy a new mercedez.
Sorry for the rant lol
TLDR: Once visit was when I tore knee ligaments, even then, they tried to hook me on pills, not even a wiff of actual care.
Not pooping for a month seems pretty miserable.
No health insurance?
Yeah. They get you hooked for awhile then make you dance like a little monkey to get more. Meanwhile, walk down the street to the park and one can get fentanyl. No problema.
I was prescribed narcs for 16 years. I got pissed off at the bullshit and took myself off of them almost 2 years ago. You know what I discovered? After 2 months of being off of them, my overall pain levels were greatly reduced. The narcs increased the pain significantly. I have learned how to deal with it and I am now free to do what I think is best for me.
Glad to hear of your healing fren
Well..this makes sense. When you suffer an injury, you do need rehabilitation. If you break a bone, that is going to hurt well after the bone itself is healed, and if you aren't doing the mobility exercises (relevant for all injuries) then you'll never gain the mobility back until you start to do them.
As it turns out, you suffered a catastrophic injury. That injury healed at some point in those 8 years. You rehabilitated it by using it.
It is pretty standard to recommend that, and if they sent you home with a $5K bill they should have told you that.
Also an MRI should not have been necessary for diagnosis of that kind. That definitely sounds like an awful place. Emergency room instead of urgent care I take it?
I broke a bone relatively recently, and all treatments/advice cost me about $150-$250 (that ballpark by the end of it). There was a bit of additional cost associated, like bandages, but not too bad unlike if I had gone to emergency.
Quick edit: No insurance either.
how dare you not be a profit center for big pfarma!!! kek!
Well if they provided some sort of benefit I wouldn't mind paying to get cared for by knowledgeable people who make it their craft to make people healthy.
Not some sleezy salesperson with just enough training to pass you through a profit funnel.
Wonder how human beings ever managed to evolve over the past several hundred thousand years before the invention of doctors and vaccines!
Wasn’t life expectancy for males somewhere around 30?
In some instances. But controlling history is a good way to control the narrative. They pretend things are only getting better and our past was dark. That way we are grateful to "advances" in science and technology.
Noah lived to be 950 yrs old, what happened?
Yeah they kept a running data base of everyone and recorded when people were born and when they died across the entire world.
The entire people used to die at 40 thing is so simplified and full of problems it's not even funny.
I've heard that childhood deaths skewed the results way down. So if you lived passed infant/toddlerhood, you lived a lot longer than 40. Dunno if that's true. Like you said, they kept a running data base, hah!
It's that caveman-dumb mentality. We are so much "smarter" we think than the ancient civilizations. I think we're the morons.
I believe they are referring to an AVERAGE.
Tbh with you even if it’s true that it was around 30 I’m not even mad. Life is too fucking hard to live for long, as a male not born into any privilege.
Both of my grandmothers kept very detailed family histories and did a lot of research going back hundreds of years. Most of my ancestors not killed in wars or by diesase (or died in childhood) lived to be in their 90s, and even some well into their 100s. And they were all ordinary people, not elites, from different backgrounds (some were in Europe, some were in America from very early on, some were Native American). I wonder how much that was the norm, and we just don't know about it because the average is skewed by infant mortality, war, and deaths in childbirth.
Thats because most were sent off to war to die by age 22, the elites lived to be 50-60 thus making the mean average around 30
I think that was thenlife expectancy around the middle ages. They included babies that were still born or miscarriages. If you exclude that group, life expectancy is about what it is now actually.
Weird I was just thinking this. Stocking up on some basic health stuff. I am self insured and paying a ton of money annually for "health insurance." What a crock.
When my Doctor told me about cancer :we got it all but you need radiation and chemo anyway or you are going to die. 30 years ago, I studied and got rid of most of my problems. I even went to my chiropractor to help with broken ribs. He put my bones back in place for one break 2 times and now I am fine. Cost 2 $49 dollar visits.