I had an explosive migraine a couple years ago and went to the emergency room because I thought I was dying. I had to wait for about 3 hours before being seen. Once I was seen they did a brain x ray and gave me an IV migraine medication. I had a bad sinus infection and inflammation that was pressing on facial nerves and triggering the migraine. They told me to take Claritin and sent me home.

After about a month I got the bill, over $8000. I forgot what my "good" insurance paid to the hospital but my part of it was $8k. For an x ray and IV. They also charged $200 for IV hydration which I didn't ask for or consent to, and didn't need because I keep myself well hydrated always.

Also it turned out that this infection was bacterial because about a week after I went to the hospital I started getting 103-105°F fevers. I then went to an urgent care and had to pay $180 to get told that I need to wait at least 3 weeks with the infection before they will treat it with antibiotics. So I suffered like that for another 2 weeks and finally got antibiotics from a different place. The nerve pain I got from that infection was unlike anything I've ever felt before. I was literally screaming and thrashing around, completely delirious with fever and pain and my wife trying to keep me alive. I fucking hate this country.

Oh I just remembered, I also got sent an additional $300 bill for the specific doctor I saw at the hospital. Yeah that's a thing in a America too. You sometimes have to pay both the hospital you went to and the individual doctor who saw you, separately.

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This is where I'm at, admittedly. I see no substantial action from any alternative group. I can't be the change I want to see because I'm not a leader. So given the options I have to choose one of them. I finally get the "lesser evil" shit. I used to think it was a cynical slogan meant to get people used to the idea of supporting heinous crimes, which it is, but it is also a genuine sentiment that holds some weight. I was blind to that before. The way I see it now, no matter my choice, evil will come, so I might as well cast my ballot for the one that is a ostensibly less evil. So I'll begrudgingly vote for Harris because the rhetoric coming from the republicans is fucking terrifying, and JD Vance especially makes me feel very nervous. He's exactly the type of slimy opportunistic creep that should be kept as far away from power as possible. At least it's not Biden or Shapiro. C'est la vie.

Yeah aight fair enough. I'm liking that you can fully block subs on here versus reddit where you can't. Much more freedom in tuning your feed.

Yeah sorry I got heated I was having a bad moment and overblew things in my head.

I've been avoiding the political BS and finding it much better. Easier to avoid the vitriolic stuff here too. And you can turn off seeing comment and post scores so downvotes don't exist for me.

I haven't seen nearly as many obvious rage bait bot posts either.

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