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Why is that no surprise to me? The american dream these days to me feels like „I hope I can make it before I become seriously sick or injured.“
I suppose you have no way of getting insurance or some program to help you? Because self medicating with alcohol is pretty brutal for your health over time.
I have insurance but every time I go to a doctor they always still manage to make it cost 100+$ and thanks to their incomprehensible medical billing codes I don't even have a way to budget for it if they decide to do some test that costs a lot and insurance comes back saying it's not covered after the fact.
I'm mitigating the alcohol thing by only using it in majorly stressful times. Normally I don't drink as much.
Thats quite horrifying. Sorry you have to go through that.