IDK about Canada but in the states the core Medicare program doesn’t cover shit. Some states have slightly less shitty programs, but it’s still a couple grand annually, absolute max. That sounds like a lot until you realize that’s 1-2 crowns/root canals.
Not to change the subject to insurance, but this is often true if you have Medicare because of poverty. Although … I have a friend who’s been in cancer treatment for a decade-weekly chemo- and she only has Medicare and everything is covered. My own experience (not with cancer) was when I had a time of poverty in my 20s was not so good. I could not find a doctor to cover something much easier and more common than cancer. It certainly taught me that insurance is important and I found a job that offered it right away.
When a person turns 65, they are forced on Medicare, whether they have insurance or not, whether they want it or not, but it does seem to cover most of what is necessary unlike the poverty one. (Which is called MediCal here and has different names based on the states.). But old people keep their old insurance as secondary that covers drug insurance too if they take prescriptions.
No insurance covers much in the way of teeth. Some will pay for cleaning. Some even allow a thousand a year for issues. Few will do much more. Teeth are very expensive and a thousand is about a couple cavities so take care of them!
Back to Kelly-I heard a recent podcast that happened in the 80s-a nurse was supposedly stalked and abused. She had 90 incidents over a period of less than a decade including physical abuse, notes, damage to her house, weird phone calls, and several times she was attacked (once somebody stuck a knife through her hand to the floor) Black stockings were placed on her neck each time. There were many weird things that nobody ever saw. The notes were cut from magazines. Strangely, nothing happened when people were around. She lived with a cop for a year or so and it stopped, but it started up when he left. Eventually. She was found dead, bound with stockings. Her cause of death was a morphine OD.
However, the stories were almost too crazy, nobody ever saw it. Like Kelly, she’d been institutionalized a few times and was diagnosed with histrionic and borderline personality disorder. She was left with strangers as a kid and may have been molested. In the end, it was thought that she was creating these incidents for attention -her hand was stabbed in such a way the nothing vital was hit, and she was a nurse. The theory is she went too far when she died. People now know she did it herself but they don’t know if she meant to die or just set up another abuse scenario. This was also in Canada.
It reminded me of Kelly, although the cases aren’t alike-the fear of abandonment and need for attention and care seem similar, and how very far some go to get that need met. But it never can be met for long and my limited understanding of borderlines is they can’t be cured. So it makes sense that Kelly would comply in hospital and then go back to old ways as soon as she can.
I wonder if we’ll see more from her?
