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Jill Kovacs
The Kovacs Story
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The After Affects
Financially, of course we suffered, and to this day bare the stigma of those dark days during Jill's illness. Our family was forced into personal bankruptcy, not due to medical costs, but due to other expenses that so devastating an illness can produce.
There were phone bills, clothing bills, parking, tolls, gas, wear and tear on our vehicles, time lost from work, etc. It was extremely embarrassing to go through bankruptcy, even more so because the courts did not seem to care why we filed bankruptcy, just that we did.
We felt that we were labeled as irresponsible because we could not keep up with our bills during this terrible time. We had to add shame to all the other emotions we carried on a daily basis. Today, 10 years after Jill's illness, we still cannot get decent credit;
we pay outrageous fees to obtain credit that is by no means as good as offered to those whose lives have been so innocently bypassed by this awful disease.
There were other prices paid for the experience thrust upon us that was not only unwelcome but so without warning. But again, I find it too hard to explain so briefly how terribly destroyed our lives were by this illness. Let it suffice to say that by no fault of my
daughter's nor our own, our lives were dramatically, painfully, and devastatingly destroyed during this time period.
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