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Hello and good day to you ...I don't know where to start my name is Patty Nesbitt and I live in Iowa I have a 15 year old son Broc...I hope some people can identify with me....I have been a single mom forever it seems like and have had a pretty good life that I have made for myself and Broc til I hurt my left knee. I tore my Lateral and medial meniscus just getting out of my car and walking a few steps so I went to the ER and they told me I fractured my knee cap ....so I went to a Orthopedic Surgeon Roswell Johnston ...he gave me an ejection of cortisone in the knee and said to come back if not any better ....I work as a CNA 3rd shift and he took me off work for a couple of weeks .....Soo I went back to him things were only getting worse ....he ordered a MRI and I waited for over a week for the insurance company to ok that....Well the MRI said I tore my meniscus on both sides of the left knee and the Dr. suggested knee scopic surgery but my insurance company denied it says I didn't meet the criteria and that my knee was to advanced with Osteoarthritis
So my doctor appealed it and they denied it again ....Dr. Johnston didn't agree with what they said and he thought my knee looked pretty good on X-rays so he sent me to Iowa City Hospital and Clinics and I seen ARNP Jamison Pricket there they took one X-ray of both my knees ..... Jamison said that the front of my knee looked pretty good but under my left knee cap and beside of my knee and behind it is Stage 4 Osteoarthritis ....by this time it's hard for me to walk any distance He said there's a lot of fluid around my knee that's your bodys natural way of protecting it's self ....I can see the Surgeon on October 26 2021 for surgery. Jamison suggested a partial knee I asked him about my lateral and medial meniscus and he said it didn't look to bad to him but if the surgeon thought it needed repaired I would get a whole new knee
He also stated that there's a 3 month wait to have this surgery done after seeing the surgeon ...that will take me out to December or January of next year...I just can't wait that long financially
So I decided to seek a Orthopedic Dr. Closer to home around Waterloo Iowa ...So I called Dr. Goerche office in Waterloo and he's going to go over my case and let me know next week if he'll take my case...I sure hope so.
Meanwhile financially I have 2 more paychecks from work and then I have exhausted everything that I've worked for my PTO and Sick Leave. I am on FMLA but that's about ready to run out too ....I do have short term disability which is 860 dollars a month. I plan to apply for Medicaid and food stamps and I've talked to my bank about my Mortgage on my house...I will be ok til December of this year then I just don't know....
I've looked at getting help but there's just no help for mortgage payments but the bank did tell me I can get this form and have it notorized all this red tape so I can pay just the taxes on my house but that's short term maybe 2 or 3 months and that will be it.
It's a shame that you gotta practically have absolutely nothing to get help from the state after all the years I've worked ...How can a Health Insurance Company decide your fate like this ? My insurance company is Blue Cross Blue Shield
That's another worry is I am running out of time of having health insurance and I think I make to much at this point for Medicaid but I have filed any way.
We are doing ok for now and I guess I gotta learn to take it one day at a time that's all we all can do. My son approached me the other day and said Mom I need to get a job to help out.....I don't think he knows just how proud I am for him thinking of this I really hate to even consider it but WE REALLY NEED THE MONEY.
School comes first though and that's truly his first priority nothing else matters. I don't know what to do my short term disability won't carry us through if we have to foreclosure ...my fear is being homeless and my son deserves more than that ....
My philosophy is ITS NOT OVER TIL ITS OVER. I am not going to give up til there's nothing else to do ...I just know or hope that I will have this surgery and everything will get back to where it was ...I plan to go back to work where I was or a different job whatever it maybe all I know is that I am to young to just not work or to give up.....God will PREVAIL !!!!!
Stay blessed Patty
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