Friday, July 11, 2008
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James was born with Neurofibromatosis. As a child he had surgery pretty much every year to keep up with the growths on his face. His dad would take the family on a summer vacation after his surgeries so he could recover and have fun. When he turned 18 he didn't have any more insurance to cover more surgeries. The tumors have stopped growing now and he would love to have the last procedures done. Several years ago he was told that his insurance company wouldn't cover it because he was born with the condition, so we are working toward a goal of $50,000 to cover the cost of treatment and recovery. We really won't know how much money is needed until he is thoroughly evaluated, but James is very excited that we have taken this project on, but I know he's a little leery of it actually happening. I am committed to doing everything I can to get him into the recovery room.
2 comments:
Today James´story is in the Danish newspaper, "EkstraBladet".
http://ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/samfund/article1033560.ece
I wonder, why the USA doesn´t have the same kind of health-care for all it´s citizens, like we have in DK: ok, we pay our taxes, but it guarantees us healthcare for free, and I feel it as shocking, that a nation as big and powerful as the USA acts so asocial towards its citizens by acting like that.
Nurse Veronica
Veronica, yes it is shocking that such a great country doesn't take care of it's own people though socialized medicine. Then, it's quite ironic, there are Americans very capable of working who instead choose to receive government funding such a welfare & foodstamps.
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