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I have a good friend, originally from Montana, who is in a CA hospital. His 85 year old mother in MT, his only relative. The truck he drove out of a CA terminal was his home. He has no health insurance. His employer doesn't provide it. He collapsed unconscious, face first onto a cement floor.

Not wanting to worry me (not notifying me) he had a heart procedure on Monday that was successful to the extent that he is still alive, but no longer able to drive a truck. The way his heart is working right now, he may not be able to work at all.

Since an hour after surgery he's been visited several times by the social worker who's trying to decide if he's eligible for help with his rising bill. From what you've just said, I can imagine how that's going. He is such a proud person, and a hard worker who would shovel shit before asking for help. I don't even want to think about how humiliating this is for him.

By Monday he'll be sent out the door into the street. I hope he's got a final check coming. I don't know what to do. I'm stuck between letting him find his own way, and going out to get him. I don't know if he'll be eligible for anything here right away, and I'm afraid the humiliation of me helping him on my $600 disability check will kill him. :cry: