Sorry, the pit bull bill was $87.
When I went through chemotherapy, my bill total came up $1 short of $1 million.
They might not have been able to afford it and were too stupid to ask for help, or just in sheer denial.
When I was sick, I spent six weeks in bed unable to move. My parents didn’t know what was wrong with me, so they took me to an urgent care center where the “doctor” proclaimed that I had a hernia and needed bedrest.
They went on vacation, and my grandparents came to stay for a week. My parents told them no matter what I said, I just needed bedrest and not to go to the doctor.
My sister showed up one day and saw me. She dragged me out of bed, down the hallway and with my grandmother screaming at her, out to the car and finally, my grandmother said if I was going to the doctor, she was going with me.
We got to the only doctor I knew. An orthopedic specialist. He took a look at me, saw the lump on my shoulder up to my earlobe (the one the “doctor” said was a “Nice lump” then told me to turn my head and cough), and told me he was sending me to an ENT. I told him I’d make an appointment, and he then told me he was making it, and I was to go straight there. There would be no waiting. I then was taken to the ENT who told me he wanted to take me to the hospital. Right then. My parents were interrupted from their vacation, and walked in and my father started yelling at my sister. My mom started yelling at me to get out of the hospital bed, and we were leaving. The doctor walked in, and pulled them out in the hallway for about 3 minutes.
They came walking back in, thanked my sister profusely, and told me that we were going to work together to beat this.
Denial comes in all stages.
14 months of chemo, and 39 trips to the hospital, and I can tell you, there were some who denied repeatedly, even when the children passed that they were even sick.
The “pit bull” piece of the story is to invoke outrage. These parents didn’t have a clue. And frankly, they probably haven’t accepted that their son is dead yet. And when they do, the self-loathing that will come will be much worse than ANY condemnation you can give them. The police are piling on.
The son should have been taken by child protective services to the hospital and they should have been faced with the reality of what they were doing. But, since that didn’t happen, then they shouldn’t be made to suffer man-made pain since the pain and grief they’ve already brought to themselves is probably going to kill both of them.
Read your later post before your earlier. Sorry you had cancer. You don’t say what kind or where you received your treatments. I’m sorry but I don’t believe your costs. Willing to blank out personal info and post the bill on here?
My mom had cancer TWICE - treated at the Cleveland Clinic - went through radiation treatments, surgeries, and chemo for months and months. She also had complications and had to remain hospitalized longer than most patients in both cases.
The total of the treatments for both didn’t even come close to millions. Meanwhile, she did have a $12,000 PET scan.
I think you are exaggerating because you are anonymous and it’s easy to “fib” on line.
Show the bill and I’ll believe it.
Oh, and p.s. you apparently didn’t read the part about the parents being dope-heads and not putting their children in school and how their relatives begged them to let THEM take the kid to the doc. Nope, they were monsters, not just dummies. If they knew enough to treat the dog, they knew to take the kid in.