To whom it may concern,
My name is Glendon Yerger, and I have always had a tendency to fall through the cracks in the Medical .Educational,and with the Government as a whole. My most recent experiences with this is an issue I had with the OVR office in Wilkes Barre. I have been on Disability due to having Multiple Sclerosis for 5 years now. At the beginning of the summer I made the leap in deciding to go back to school in order to utilize my mind rather than my physical strength in order to go back to work. I made the leap into going back to school, just to prove that people with MS can do anything that anyone else can do. Yet with the Ovr Office I fell through the cracks then, and ended up signing myself up for school at Mccann School of Buisness and Technology under their Medical Laboratory Technician degree program. Because I am doing this on my own, I have trouble affording basic things for school, let alone affording Gas to and From Dickson city on a daily Basis. For a long time I have been fighting tooth and nail to find some sort of help with affording the things I require to help with my MS. Numerous times I have been told I do not meet the criteria, I'm the wrong sex, I'm the wrong ethnicity. Recently, In another leap, I decided to ask for help from several of the foundations out there designed (supposedly) for people with MS who are floundering and or struggling in todays economy and the way that the world is right now. After I attempted to get this help, do you know what I got? Phone Calls pleading for donations for people who are struggling with MS. Pleading with my wife and I to get as much help in assisting these people as possible. After the 4th phone call I flew off of the deep end and called back leaving a message. This is what I said: "I have had MS for 7 years, and I have never been asked if I required assistance. I have a hard enough time making ends meet being on the meager funding that I have, yet I do not beg borrow and steal to help my family. I barely have enough money to afford the expensive and rarely useful medications that I am supposed to use. I would gladly give anything I could to other people with the same affliction as I have, yet I can barely make my own way. Explain to me, if you can, how this system is working?" I have also been having issues getting Beta-Seron, The Medication prescribed by my doctor to help slow the decline of my Physical health due to my Multiple Sclerosis. After calling and attempting to order a new shipment of this medication, I was told that the Mail Order Pharmacy my insurance works through could not guarantee that they could ship me a new order of this medication due to a Pre-Existing Bill on the Pharmacy side of things. I called and had to get the Beta-Seron nursing team, A group of nurses that work with my medication in order to help in any way that they can, involved with my medication. After a long discussion about Ethics and the loss of the Hypocratic Oath thanks to the almighty dollar with the nurse, I was conferenced in with the pharmacy billing side of things with her sitting in as another voice in case the billing side decided to be pushy. I swear if you could hear someone sweat, this billing agent was sweating while typing. My Medication will be delivered on the 9th of September. I woke up Friday morning with a profound sense of accomplisment, only to hear something being taped on my door. When I checked on it, it was a document from the Luzerne county Tax collection Department, saying that our home is going up for public sale due to Back Taxes, That I know we paid. It almost seems like I am being punished for standing up and making my voice heard, and this happens consistantly. It is my goal to make my voice heard with this letter, as I understand that times are tough for many people right now, alot of them are afraid to come forward and ask for help. After my recent experiences with alot of this so called help that is out there, I can understand why. Thank you for your time
Glendon Yerger
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