earlier tonight, i was coming home from work and realized my steps going up to my apartment were still covered in ice from yesterdays storm. i knew it was like that, but i wanted to get a picture of it because some of the ice is round on top all the way across the step and it’s tilted at an angle which means it’s almost impossible to get a step onto. it just felt kind of scary to me. so i took a few steps away to take a picture and immediately slipped on the ice in front of the stairs and fell down and hit my head. the town i’m in doesn’t have very many people i’m close to and i live by myself, so if something happened to me i didn’t know who i could call. luckily, the worst that happened (so far) is the back of my phone is shattered and i have a bit of a headache. obviously, worried about head injury, so i called my dad just to make sure someone else could verify i was okay and i wasn’t making it up. he told me if i was worried to go ahead and call an ambulance, and my first response was “does our insurance cover that? how expensive would an ambulance be? could i afford that?”
idk. just sucks man. i’ve been working almost full time hours for a part time position and i’m still barely making it paycheck to paycheck. i can’t replace my phone, and i am scared to get medical help, because it would more or less bankrupt me. i barely have enough for rent as is.
tl;dr: hurt my head while falling and instead of immediately calling an ambulance, i got worried about the costs of it, even though i have good insurance and work almost full time hours with pay slightly above minimum wage. made me depressed to think about fundswise.
this was more of a vent post, i guess. thanks for reading if you did <3