Waiting here for my lawyer, find out what's going on at court.
Usually they only need to call if they need information clarified that they don't have, you know,
evidence as far as paperwork or documentation or if the judge needs like some type of specific clarification
on something that they can't get from, you know, either the lawyer or the insurance company.
The insurance company payment for the hotel ended July 20th of last year of 09 and for the past seven months now,
I've been paying out of pocket here at the hotel to keep from being on the street.
As of right now, I am $12,385 in the hole of my own personal money.
That's all of my savings gone. That's my bank account, my checking account drained.
I've borrowed upwards of $3,500 to almost $4,000 from relatives and friends who, especially, you know,
in this economy and just coming through the holidays, really didn't have it to give,
but did anyway just, you know, out of the kindness of their hearts.
That's why I was asking you, because as an attorney, oftentimes you and you go the other way and say treatment issues,
but your financials are $1,200.
Right, right, right.
Now, they very well could say, you know, how much were you paying to live before this happened?
I just got off the phone with my lawyer who just wrapped up at the courthouse on my behalf.
We were hoping for some type of a resolution on my housing situation,
and we were also hoping for some type of resolution on financial reimbursement,
trying to get back the money that I spent on the hotel to keep from being homeless.
And to, you know, no great surprise, we didn't get anything that we wanted today.
I, to be honest, was not expecting the insurance company to come in and just, you know,
cut me a check for the money that I spent.
That was a ridiculous expectation.
But at least now we've gotten it on the table that there are certain things that we need to have resolved,
and we'd like to have them resolved quickly,
since the insurance company is unwilling to work with us to resolve specific issues such as financial reimbursement, housing, and basic medical care.
We, looks like we're going to be moving towards a trial date on March 17th
to go before a trial judge who can actually make a final decision and compel the insurance company to act.
Without the ability to get out on my own and direct the course of my own life being in this hotel without any type of long-term solution or any safety net or anything like that,
is literally like being trapped in a box.
I feel like, sometimes I feel like a hamster in a cage where I've already got the wheels and I'm just going around in circles
and so often one of my friends comes by and takes me out and plays with me for a while and then puts me back in the box and here I sit,
and I really don't have any control and I don't have any ability to direct the course of my own life.
And it's scary, it makes me angry, it makes me frustrated,
and I am out of control all the time and it's not a comfortable feeling not being able to just be in control of your life and your own situation
and be at the mercy of either a faceless insurance company or a hotel that wants a payment or, you know, yeah.
