Kristin Ann Doyle

Well, I can't make my life work apparently. I tried to find a job not too far from where I live but apparently they won't hire me. I had to do work requirements to continually receive food assistance and by doing that, I had to walk through wet grass a pretty long distance which caused a blister on my foot. Then when I got to a church to do volunteer hours to keep the work requirement people happy and continue to receive food assistance, I realize my feet inside my shoes are damp from the wet grass I had to walk through so I take the shoes and socks off and proceed to do yard work. Raking leaves, branches sticks, put them in a wheelbarrow, wheel them toward the forest to dump them and proceed to step on some pinecones close to the forest. Now I have to worry about tetanus an infection like David had although at this point i wasn't thinking any of that. I was just thinking I stepped on some pinecones no big deal finish up what I was supposed to do at the church put my shoes and socks back on to walk home. When i get home my underfoot is puffy with a yellowish liquid and difficult to walk on with a bit of red skin under that. So I have to go somewhere to get it checked out. I think I'll use my insurance to get a ride to a doctor but i find out they cancelled my insurance bc my son turned 18. So I decide to goto the health department only they don't do anything except women's health like preventive measures for pregnancy like birth control or they do mammograms or provide WIC for mother's of very young children or the very young children. My primary doctor is said to be on vacation but they tell me to goto the office anyways bc I assume they have other doctors. I get there and that was the only doctor who could see me so I have to goto the emergency room to have my foot looked at. Luckily the health department does do tetanus shots for 53.00 and it's right by where I couldn't be seen at the doctors office. So I have that done. I no longer get financial help from DCF so have no income of my own. Not to mention I had to use my son's money to get to the doctors office and the emergency room by using Ubers. I tried to see if i qualify for a sliding scale for low cost insurance but nope. You have to have some type of income. Florida is one of the very few states in the country that does not have medicaid for all citizens. I cannot continue on this way but i do not know what to do. I also had to use my son's money to get antibiotics for myself. also, the infection I had on my foot, the opened blister is still there. It's flatter and smaller and no liquid but the skin will not go over it yet or hasn't yet and it's been weeks since I have been seen and weeks since I finished the antibiotics. So, I may have to goto the hospital again at some point or maybe I'll get lucky and it will just close which it's supposed to do.