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2 years later and all done - thanks to your help!

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 4:55 am
by Jirato
I think I mentioned this somewhere here before, but I couldn't find it to reply to, so...

Today, I made the final payment of a $11,000 hospital bill ($2,900 owed by me, the rest was insurance), that I've been struggling with to pay over the past 2 years. In August of 2013, I had the worst pain I ever felt in my entire life. I seriously thought I was going to die. I have an extremely high pain tolerance, and for things to get bad enough that I need to go to the hospital, they have to be REALLY bad. I spent 4 hours in the emergency room, had 2 or 3 shots of morphine, some sort of scan, and a urine analysis just to find out that I had a kidney stone. Some of the people I've talked with about kidney stones say it is one of the very few things that is actually more painful than giving birth. Wow, I can't even imagine...

Anyway, combined with other credit card debts, this has been really hard for me and I've struggled with it a lot. But thanks to the awesomeness of not having to worry about the server payments as much (Yay, Patreon!) I was able to put that money I was normally shelling out for the server to my hospital bill instead.

So, just wanted to say thanks all for helping pay the server. It really means a lot to me, more than I can really express. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Re: 2 years later and all done - thanks to your help!

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 8:29 am
by Solaje
Congrats on getting that paid off! I'm sure fear of the unkown makes passing a kidney stone infinitely worse. No matter how bad labor is, you know it won't last forever. Plus you get a baby at the end. Hope you're completely recovered!

Re: 2 years later and all done - thanks to your help!

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 9:55 am
by Rias
Solaje wrote:Plus you get a baby at the end.
Jirato could always keep the stone as a pet rock!

Glad you've got one less thing to worry about, Jirato. Getting payments/debts paid off at long last is one of life's great joys. And yay for the players being supportive of CLOK!

Re: 2 years later and all done - thanks to your help!

Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 8:08 pm
by merin
Rias wrote: Jirato could always keep the stone as a pet rock!
I'm not left speechless often, but that statement right there did it.

As a reward for paying off your hospital bills, Jirato, we give you premature gray hairs! :).

Also, yay I learned how to do the quotey thingy.
Glad you got it paid off.

Re: 2 years later and all done - thanks to your help!

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 9:00 am
by Ahelis
A warm, well-deserved congratulations on having all of that paid off, Jirato! :)