Q&A: What out-of-pocket medicine and treatment costs do you face?

Day 4 · 3:08:45 · Dean Allison · Nicole Sedore

• 💊 Alberta benefits refuse the $90 monthly blood thinner because a neurosurgeon rather than cardiologist prescribed it.
• 🍽️ She forgoes trauma therapy and other care; money covers only food and shelter, sometimes skipping her own meals.
• 🏊 Former elite swimmer now fears the pool because being alone with her thoughts risks aneurysm rupture.

Final costs question before Nicole is thanked.

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Transcript

Dean Allison · 3:08:45

And so maybe one final question: what, what type of costs do you have to incur for medicine or treatment?

Nicole Sedore · 3:08:52

Medicine, I don't do anything else because I don't have money to do anything else.

Dean Allison · 3:08:56

So you would do more more if you could.

Nicole Sedore · 3:08:59

Yes, there's lots of things I would like to do. I would like to, you know, with my trauma and stuff, there's lots of things that would probably help me in a day-to-day, but I, I don't— I can't. It's food and shelter, that's all.

Dean Allison · 3:09:14

Well, Nicole, thank you very much for being here today. Thank you for traveling great distances to share your stories. It's, it's all important, so thank you.

Nicole Sedore · 3:09:22

Thank you for doing this.