Re: TW Spoilers for Children of Earth
Thanks. I'm not nearly as badly off as a lot of people -- my condition isn't life-threatening, just very painful. (I guess I could extrapolate to the future and say it will decrease my lifespan, not just my quality of life, because I can't exercise, if I have to make that argument to get Medicaid.) Also, my parents can and will pay for the surgery if it comes to that, though they will have to put off retirement for significantly longer if I don't get reimbursed. And I have a great partner who takes care of everything for me, including a lot of the paperwork.

Anyway, this guy and his partner are worse off than my partner and I, because brain cancer is worse than my condition by a ton. They are "lucky" in the one respect that they have money and don't have to worry about paying for medical care, though. But I wouldn't want to trade places with them.