Barack Obama has said that the thing he's best at is killing people. For once, he's telling the truth. I know this because he has killed me and my wife with the health care legislation that bears his name, no matter how hard the Left is now insisting on calling it the Affordable Care Act instead of Obamacare. Whatever they call it, it's still a lie; and the provisions therein have ensured that my wife will die a painful, and needless death. And I won't be far behind.
That's
not hyperbole folks. After trying, and failing, to log in to Obamacare's joke of a website on October 1st, I went to our family doctor who had one of his
employees working as an Obamacare "navigator" and
reapplied for the Medicaid that was taken away from me last year when I
first reported $200 in income from the show.
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Bobby & DeLynn Powell |
Not only was my application
for Medicaid denied, my wife's was too even
though she was recertified for her Medicaid just two months ago. There is no doubt that her Medicaid was cancelled because I applied for Obamacare! In case you are unfamiliar, she is in the midst of a heroic battle against Stage IV Colo-rectal and Liver cancer. To top it all off, I got a letter last week telling me that my son
Adam would no longer be getting free school lunches. GEEZ!
You have to remember that even though I look fairly strong on camera I
really AM disabled. I'm in tremendous pain, all of the time. I spend
most of the day on the couch in my own homemade traction contraption
hooked up to a TENS unit so that I can get on my feet for a few hours a
day to film the show without limping and grunting and groaning like a
caveman.
Ask Sir Patrick, my beloved friend and TTiV Admin who
just happens to live a couple of blocks away. He heard me grunt ALL DAY
(UUHHH, AHHHH, DAMN!!!) when I helped him move a couple of weeks ago.
LOL! He's not in much better shape with a messed up knee and other
painful afflictions. Between the two of us we make a funny pair of
broken-down old farts.
Back to business, I have ongoing medical
issues that are fatal if left untreated; and I'm not talking about
fatal 20 years from now either. I could literally die at any time.
Oh screw it. I wasn't going to say anything but I'm not going to be able to hide it much longer anyway. Here goes.
My liver is on the brink of failure due to Hepatitis C that I
contracted from a tattoo I got to celebrate my graduation from Advanced
Infantry Training at Camp Geiger in 1979. (Thanks a lot Zeke, you ass!)
I'm getting sicker all of the time, which is why there was no new show last week. It is
taking every bit of strength that I have to take care of DeLynn and the
house.
Anyway, I've done the standard treatment for Hep C twice
since I first found out that I had it in 1994. It was discovered during
blood tests taken when I was hospitalized after the chemical leak that
robbed me of my ability to read, write, and speak without stuttering to
the point of babbling. Let me tell you it is NOT pleasant.
Interferon and Ribavirin were the standard treatment for Hep C when I
underwent the first regimen of chemo that, for me, lasted 51 weeks. I
completed that year of Hell and was told that I was "virus-free." Until
1998, when I was told it had returned. So I went through the chemo
again, updated to include a drug called "Pegasus," until I was informed
that I was "virus-free" once more.
The last time I had a blood
test done, in September of 2012, my Hepatitis C viral load was higher
than it had ever been. I need to take the chemotherapy again, but...
The difference between taking the treatment now and taking it then are
two-fold. In 1998, DeLynn was healthy. She was, in fact, pregnant with
Adam so she was radiantly beautiful! My point is, she was able to take
care of me, something that she did without ever having a single thought
for herself.
The treatment for Hep C is extremely debilitating.
For an entire year she fed me, helped me in and out of bed to go to the
bathroom, even bathing me when I was too weak to do it myself. That is
exactly what I do for her now. If I were to start chemotherapy too, who
would take care of her? I wouldn't be able to do it. We'd have to have
someone come in to take care of both of us.
Even if I were so
inclined, I couldn't afford the treatment. I still have Medicare (for
the moment,) but that only pays 80% of hospital expenses, and not a dime
on prescriptions. They took away my Medicaid and a third of our
disability income - including every penny of food stamps and the $200
monthly Medicare premium that Medicaid had been paying for - once I
reported PRE-expenses income of $200.
And then there's the MS.
During a brain scan that I received in 2008, "2-3mm foci" were found
scattered throughout my brain, "indicative of Multiple Sclerosis or
another demyelinating disease." Thank God I have been pretty much asymptomatic; so far.
Basically, I'm screwed.
So forget me,
let's focus on my wife. This isn't right, the way we're being treated
by the government; at ANY level. It was just as IRS employees were being
outed for targeting Tea Partiers that I finally got fed up with not
getting ANY phone calls returned from Social Services (not one call
returned in 6 months) and went down there demanding to speak to her
supervisor, threatening to expose their garbage on this program.
So despite the extremely hopeful news that DeLynn's most recent PET scan revealed, that most of the tumors in her liver are no longer showing any metabolic activity (they have calcified, turned to stone!) my
wife is probably going to die anyway without Medicaid to pay for ongoing treatments to kill the rest of the cancer. Our "worker" targeted us because of
the content of my show, I'm sure of it. I'm sure because our problems
didn't begin until I told her that I was trying to go back to work and
gave her the website address. I was made doubly sure when her
supervisor turned DeLynn's Medicaid back on while I was waiting in the lobby
without even talking to me!
When Obamacare rolled out I was
hoping that something might have changed, that the new rules would allow
me to get my Medicaid back and get what medical care I could. My doctor
gave me a prescription for pain killers for my left arm, which at the
moment is pretty much useless. I couldn't get the prescription filled
for almost two weeks because even the generic brand cost $30 I didn't
have. It wasn't until one of you beautiful people sent in a donation
that I was able to buy the medicine and get some relief.
One of
my doctor's employees had been assigned as an Obamacare "navigator,"
and she told me that my application would be sent right to Grand Rapids,
that it would bypass our local office and all of the attending problems
altogether, and that I should never have lost my Medicaid in the first
place.
We spent an hour and a half going over my income and
expenses from the show, my medical history, prognoses, and current
medical needs. Then she hit the enter button and shot it off to Grand
Rapids just like she said she would.
Then the next week we got a
letter from the local office requesting information on every damn thing
under the Sun; information that we have provided them half a dozen
times this year, information that was included in what we gave the
Obamavator.
I'm done... I can't do any more.
Maybe if
Megyn Kelly, Sean Hannity, Greta van Sustren, or Greg Gutfeld picks this story up on one of their shows we'll finally get some
justice. It's not right for my wife to be needlessly upset all of
the time, scared to death that they are going to leave her - and me - to die needlessly and in pain.
Please Tweet the following Tweets and let's see if we can get the attention of someone who can help us. I need you guys to help us here; then I'd appreciate it
greatly if you would ask Father to be with us. We're really being
tested, but my Faith in God is unshakeable and I know that whatever
happens He will be here with us; our Rock, our Mighty Fortress, and our
High Tower.
Kinda like you guys, my TTiV family.
God bless and Semper Fi,
Bobby
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