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Lucky
I guess you could say my Mom was lucky.
Lucky she’d been healthy her whole life.
Lucky she was smart.
Got into a good school,
And a great job.
Lucky she didn’t get sick until she was 30,
Lucky she had the money to pay for it,
And she didn’t have to choose between
Health,
Food,
And education
For her children.
Lucky she had someone to support her:
My Dad.
And lucky she was able to have
Us kids.
Lucky she never caught anything else
Her immune system couldn’t fight.
Lucky she had good doctors
Who cared about her
And coworkers
Who understood.
Lucky that she knew how to manage money.
Lucky that after 20 years of stabbing herself
With a needle every day,
Her body realized
It was permanent,
And it stopped hurting as much.
She’s been Lucky her whole life
That she can live relatively normally
And afford the insulin her body so desperately needs.
But if you think about it
Should that really be luck?
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My Mom has Type 1 Diabetes, which is an incurable and chronic disease. I grew up hearing how lucky my family was to be able to afford insulin for her, but it always struck me as tremendously unfair that a medicine that is essential to the daily lives of millions was and still is so expensive. Being ill is enough of a strain on a person without the massive financial burden that is placed on them in the US.