Posted on 06/16/2010 7:44:21 PM PDT by Gondring
(AP/CBS) Uninsured and too broke to pay for medical care to treat her painful shoulder injury, a Niles, Mich., woman shot herself in the same shoulder and went to the E.R. in hopes of obtaining free medical care.
By law, hospitals must treat emergency patients even if they don't have insurance.
Kathy Myers' troubles started when her 80-lb Golden Lab yanked on his leash during a skirmish with her Chihuahuas. The big dog yanked Myer's shoulder as well, injuring her rotator cuff.
After a month of agonizing pain, the unemployed 41-year-old used her in-laws' gun to take matters into her own hands. She placed icepacks and pillows around her head and neck, and then pulled the trigger, according to Wood TV 8 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Myers says she made a rational choice: she had hoped that the doctors who mended her flesh wound would also fix her rotator cuff.
But her plan didn't work out quite the way she had hoped. Last Thursday doctors treated the bullet wound, but instead of fixing her injured shoulder, they gave her some antiinflammatory drugs and sent her home.
Though shooting yourself to get medical care may seem a bit extreme, Myers told reporters at WSBT-TV in South Bend, Ind., that she has no "suicide wish" and that she "wants to live" despite her problems.
And her problems may only be increasing. Besides being in even greater pain, Myers might have to go before a judge to face a charge of firing a weapon within city limits.
Myers, who recently lost her job with an Indiana hazardous-waste removal company, is one of 1.2 million Michigan residents without health insurance.
They leave homepages up sometimes.
Oh yeah!
I have never seen that happen before.
Gondring has been around a long time.
You make the call!
I’ve already had to choke back a couple gag reflexes.
Rule # 1 - avoid surgery.
Rule # 2 - avoid meds
Rule # 3 - use exercise and diet, if they fail, then the other rules no longer apply.
Amen to that.
That was some good cheese and butter, the USDA would bring the trucks on post and the line would be a mile long. Well worth the wait when you were lower enlisted.
If that thing is Hubby it only enhances this story.
I had the sound off when I watched. I was wondering what was up with the ballcaps.
They do sometimes when they are discussing things in email.
Yeah. He's been here awhile.
Too late... I think she's terminal...
Just listened to the audio.
Yup they are lesbos. They never look like in the movies!
At least she was smart enough to us a .25
If she had capped herself in the head by accident it would have bounced off her thick skull
We understand why people feel there is a need for health care reform. We also know that it was not achieved with ObamaCare. That was about control, not health.
Government meddling with healthcare, from the system for training and licensing doctors, to the requirement of prescriptions for thousands of medications which pose no *public* health hazard, is the chief contributor to healthcare prices that exceed what the average person can pay out of pocket. We didn’t need yet another round of increased government meddling in healthcare — we need government to get OUT of healthcare. Then this woman would be able to afford the care she needs, because it would cost a tiny fraction of what it currently costs.
Jimrob may have suspended his account but not banned!
It’s happened to me...
I can’t find anything that would suggest that though.
AMEN!
I can understand why you’d be suspended ;)
If the account was suspended I wouldn’t be able to post to him would I?
Naw, he is still here.
I just sent FReepmail
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