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Amazing how in other countries you get 6 months at minimum paid maternity leave and sometimes the husbands likewise get that...and here we just can't afford it. And on top of that you can take paid vacation time, which for other countries is around 5 weeks even for part-timers. OK, so I am mainly thinking France and Canada and Europe...but still. I am sorry to hear about your financial situation Veroki. My husband will get 2 weeks paid vacation time and since I don't want to use that all up in the hospital I'm sending him back to work after the baby is born in case this does go C-Section and I am in for several days. And being 2 hours away he won't be able to come see me after work either simply due to gas money, but we'll manage. The distance to Loyola is still way worth it compared to what hospitals we got here.
We were really hoping a lawsuit I have pending with the makers of the birth control patch, Ortho Evra, was going to go through. After all it nearly killed me...but now there's huge legal concerns blocking the way. Apparently there is this issue called Pre-emption which the drug companies are trying to get past in the supreme court which would mean that if a drug gets approved by the FDA, nobody can then sue for any liability or damages that product has caused, regardless that that company may have lied to get approved by the FDA in the first place and mislabeled their drug, and regardless the FDA does not do any drug testing on their own but relies on the honestly of the drug companies. I can't imagine this perverse idea of pre-emption is even being discussed since it effectively makes the FDA and drug companies infallible and not responsible for harms caused by drugs. This might be a huge blow to my case and the cases of other women who suffered, as well as anyone who ever has or will suffer from adverse effects from a drug. All the drug makers have to do is cook their books and fool the FDA, and once approved...no lawsuits can be placed against them. Hard to believe this country is even allowing this issue to go to court in the first place but it already has in the case of some medical devices...and pre-emption in those issues has won out so if say, a brand of pace-makers suddenly quits out on folks, oh well, the FDA approved it so even if it was defective, too bad for you, you can't sue.
Yet another wonderful pointer for living in America. The systems for checks and balances are slowly disappearing, along with many of our rights.
So while we had been pretty much sure-to-win our case now we may not even see a trial simply due to this, our case completely nullified on the spot. But you never know... so we'll have to make-due financially with what we can and keep living paycheck to paycheck. I was going to go back to work myself but doing the math on it meant that I'd only be working to pay for daycare (if daycare would even accept a baby with a slight disability in the first place) so I have quit my own job and will be a stay-at-home mom.
An idea however...you cn always start selling off anything you don't want on Ebay. You'd be amazed how often that has gotten me out of a crunch. And whatever any of you guys do, never put any medical bills on credit cards. So long as you pay something of what you owe, they can't come after you even if they do threaten to give your info to collection agencies. If you put stuff on a credit card, however, you're screwed. Somebody I know found that out the HARD way.
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