As for family, my mother, while having money does help all she can. She is very proud of how I have taken back control of my life, but she has her own life and problems.
As for my father, while we love each other, we have let each other down in many ways. He once told me that he would help if I ever went back to college and proved to him I could do it. Well a 3.5 GPA and Dean's list every time must not have proved anything. I did go to him for help with college so that I wouldn't be so loaded with loans. He and my stepmother turned me down. She runs my father (as my mother did) and she has issues with my sister and I.
Kind of funny how she can drive a new Mercedes every year but when it comes to allowing dad to see his kids, that's another story. She is the type when she finds out my sister is coming in from Prescott, she'll make sure her and dad are on vacation.
My father is a very great self made man, but when it comes to family he isn't exactly the closest person (he is the perfect case study of a workaholic) and when it comes to his wife (as with my mother so....) he lets them call the shots and just does what the wife tells him. Sad how someone can be so great in business but such a puppet at home.
So .... the family won't be of much help.
As for asking for a payment plan that is an option, I have thought about and am looking into one of those credit managers that supposedly are non profit and don't charge. However, I am skeptical, in that what I say I will be able to pay and what in reality I will be able to pay are 2 different issues (as like I said before my schedule depends on how many f/t call off, vacation and so on and how often I can fill in.
Right now, I'm 3 weeks behind in school and so I have to catch up while staying with the class at the same time. Plus, one of the problems I have with the sarcoid is fatigue and extreme chest pains (it is a known cause for chronic fatigue syndrome because the body is working harder).
I do like the idea of going to the Dean of Students and pleading my case, Thank you for the suggestion Raveneye.
I don't know what the true options are, if I work more, I get less financial aid for college and what I get now barely pays (as it is all in loans)..... I am not eligible for any scholarships as I have talked to the school about them (being that I have a great GPA) and was laughed out the door basically being told I am a white, single with no dependants, non athletic, male and there are no such things no matter what my GPA is.
As for insurance, I had looked into it, but I could not find any affordable insurance. The best I had found was a very basic plan that would offer a 70/30 and had a high deductible (I think $2500), the cost of which was just not affordable to me.
This country and the attitudes of the Right are just not what I believe in anymore. I find it pathetic we are cutting social programs so deep that we are basically destroying people. All in the name of greed, the poor don't deserve anything, you're poor because you're a lazy asshole, blah blah blah.
I do have a question for the Right who believe that this situation is more my fault and I should find the money by cutting any "Luxury" I may have.
If I don't pay my bill, sure my credit is fucked, but in the long run who do you truly believe pays the bill of the poor who can't??????????
Is it not better to have the security netting and make sure these people get the help and not worry about the money, or shall we continue to put the burden on the rich????
Because in the end when people like myself cannot pay, the burden goes to those with insurance in higher premiums, goes to the taxpayers who have to pay more (well, you have Bush so.... ok the country's deficit skyrockets more), because these doctors and hospitals are going to get their money somehow........ if not by me or the poor who make too much to get help, but make too little to pay, then by the people who do pay, the government and by eventually cutting services to people in this situation......
And is that what mankind and living is about, to deny people healthcare and peace of mind for profit???????
God I hope not, because if it is then there truly is no hope for any of us.