“Working out in the gym, I didn’t know what to do. It’s just squats, deadlifts, and walking for half an hour. That two and a half months of no PT [Physical Therapy] really just [shakes head]. It had nothing to do with the place I was going to, it was all insurance. They all had to wait for my insurance. That’s why in January I switched. It’s expensive, but I don’t want to go through any of that ever again. When I had hernia surgery three years ago, my insurance at the time said they would cover it. The day of the surgery, they said they couldn’t cover it. Thank God other people took care of that one. I’m still paying for the anesthesia. I get a pop-up on my credit card, ‘This amount out for anesthesia.’ It happened again, same insurance, with the knee surgery. The day of the knee surgery, they said, ‘No, we’re not covering it.’ The surgeon knew, because he’d seen this before with this insurance, he was like, ‘Let me make a couple of calls.’ Tony took care of it, Thank God. That was it.

“After that, I was like doing my insurance, but they would give six days of PT and then wait two weeks for my insurance to kick back in to cover the next six. Wait two weeks, sometimes three weeks, and then it would kick back in. I’m doing stuff at home, but it’s not the same stuff as I’m getting there. All it was were squats and deadlifts with a sandbag. That’s all I knew to do. At one point, it became two months. That was it. Arguing with them on email, my exact words were, ‘Do I pay every month? Yes. Do I ever disturb or do anything to fuck up this company? No, I don’t. If I’m paying and I’m not doing anything wrong, why the fuck are you bothering me?’ They never answered back. I just waited and then got the insurance finally in place.”

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    I refuse to read beyond the title and gonna live in a world where Eddie Kingston does surgeries on the side and Tony came and helped him perform a surgery as his nurse.

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        “Eddie, you can’t solve every problem by setting it on fire.”

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    This is very much the American health system. I had a quick diagnostic done a handful of years back. Fifteen minutes tops. The equipment, the procedure, and the tech were all in network. The room it was done in though was managed by a company that wasn’t. Bam, $600 for the room. That’s a mild case of this fucked up system.

    I’m glad Tony was there for him because having a billionaire thar cares about you is about the only way to get treated with dignity in this country.