I thought I would get through Mercury Rx unscathed and then the universe delivered me the ultimate fuck you and my hearing aid broke today.
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Being at the mercy of other people is deeply triggering. I can't even go to work because I can't hear without my aids.
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Can't make an appt with audiology until I get a referral from my GP. GP almost made me wait on a referral until I went to see him for an appointment (tf are you going to do!?). Referral took all day yesterday only to be for the wrong place.
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Meanwhile every step of this process requires phone calls that I can't hear and a bunch of medical/audiology/insurance practitioners that don't see this as urgent.
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I finally got an appointment and some loaner hearing aids. They're amazing and the technology they have now is wild.
....They're also $16,000 and I felt like I got gut punched when they told me. This isn't a one and done expense like...I have to keep doing this.
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The average lifetime of a hearing aid? 6 years. And hearing aids aren't like cars where you can get a 5 year loan. They expect that shit up front: cash or credit. The office today deadass was like "we can split it between two credit cards if you need" 😭
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American Healthcare should just be called American WealthCare at this point 🤣
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