twelvepillarscup wrote:Blankloads69 wrote:I'm also pissed that despite almost dying, the hospital denied my application for financial assistance and I'm still paying off the surgical fees.
Welp this is anxiety inducing to read certainly. You paid all out of pocket?
Not entirely. But my insurance deductible is about $8,000, and when the new year rolls around it resets. So despite wanting to go back and get my implant fixed, I can't afford another deductible since I have to finish paying off what I currently owe. Which sucks because in order to use it, I gotta grip the base of my penis and put pressure on it while pumping so it doesn't inflate to look like a big "C", as otherwise one cylinder will start pushing out the side while inflating and only go about 3/4 of the way up my shaft.
My initial surgery, I had an LGX put in and a scrotoplasty to get rid of some scrotal webbing. Then later the LGX stopped working because I guess I was using it too much/too rough and it would eventually start deflating on its own during sex. It got replaced with the CX and upsized with shorter RTE's, but then at some point a CX cylinder dislodged or something and started poking out on the underside so I could feel it when sitting down. I went to get that fixed, but then the hematoma happened out of nowhere twice. There were tiny little bleeders that just wouldn't stop without additional surgical intervention.
To KECK USC's credit (or perhaps moreso Dr Loh-Doyle's team in particular), they caught it in time and did everything they could to fix me up, and when I healed, the CX was working great. But I guess the hematoma weakened the surrounding tissue and the pressure from the cylinder filling was too much for it to handle eventually, and my situation being such an anomaly, it's something I think couldn't be predicted.
TL;DR - I'm going to go back to Dr Loh-Doyle eventually, because I do like him personally and the complications I've had have always gotten fixed. But the hospital denying me any help after all that, along with my bad luck in general, has me frustrated as I have to wait until I can afford it to get fixed up again.
