• superkret@feddit.org
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    4 months ago

    He did everything right and believed in the system.
    And then he himself, or someone close to him, got a diagnosis that ensured life-long medical debt and poverty.

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      4 months ago

      He seems to have had a spinal surgery and had pins put in his spine. Books he’s looked at seems to indicate chronic pain and fights with insurance companies.

      It was exactly what every single person thought who wasn’t paid to think otherwise.

      • sudoshakes@reddthat.com
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        4 months ago

        Had exact same fusion performed.

        4 screws, 2 rods to connect them, and a 3-d sintered titanium cage between the vertebrae.

        I can attest to the chronic pain and wanting to armor a bulldozer