Yep, none of it refundable nor will I get the amount that he owes me back.
There will be no law changed and the sad sack state of affairs of New York City will continue.
Its laughable. If you don't have more than $1100 a month to spend on a place to live (and by the way I have lived in NYC the greater part of my life) you might as well be prepared for large electricity bills wherein you drown out a band playing next door (in an upper East side townhouse) and their cigarette smoke will require several air cleaners and your health is going to be impaired. The city and the landlord's attitude is have a problem then stuff your ears and clean the air in your apartment for god's sake. But wow! what will I do about the vibrating floor, most likely they'll ask that I be lobotomized. I must accomodate the deficiencies of my neighbors.
The 311 line will tell you that the Housing Preservation Department will come out and visit you and they never do, no call, no followup, no show. They'll tell you when you followup that the police came four hours later and found nothing. LOL they did not even ring the bell. They tell you well ma'am you have to keep doing it.
What I must do is hire a sound expert who will come right when I call him/her, an air expert and a pest specialist (bed bugs etc). That will cost me at minimum $900 and the $350 will be for the lawyer to sign his name to my research and letter. A pesticide company and a renown etymologist have volunteered to identify the specimens of insects that I have.
What all that effort will get me is not change but a certified way out of yet another F**** disaster.
I have 17 plastic air tight boxes with all my belongings stacked up on one side of the small room with one window. An infested leather sofa bed weeps on the other side. Everyday I clean the floor and the sofa bed twice to try to rid them of the insects that bite me and get in my hair.
A malfunctioning dermatologist said that I had nothing growing in my skin, he failed to look at my scalp and he did not use any magnifying glass on my skin. He did what I already had done, a once over behind the ears and back of neck. For I was so alarmed by these nymphs after reading up on them, was this lice and how in the world could that be?
He seemed more interested in me as a nude object. It took me five weeks to find and get an appointment with this "expert" and then four weeks to actually have the appointment. He was paid $150 for that perv moment. I checked my experience with the "expert" out with subsequent physicians in other specialties and of course friends who have been to a dermatologist before. They say this one was off his rocker. However, among the Medicaid selection quite a few are. They are no more than technicians with no intellectual follow up.
The mammogram that became the Spammogram. These technicians were given vital info about me that I had had a severe case of chicken pox and it had left scar tissue on the specimen (thank the City hospital for that maiming). Also I'm curved and therefore its going to be impossible to have this test. Well the overzealous technician who has been trained by rote made me take the mammogram twice within seconds. There went 2% of my health. So I'm feeling ok these morons claim they know what they are doing and I've got to get this cleared for the court case.
Then three weeks later I receive the spammogram, after I asked the primary care provider and the imaging center about the results and they have said nothing to be concerned about; they would have told you right away if anything was wrong. I have to call up the radiologist to get an answer and that's when a week later I get the spammogram. The spammogram states I need to have additional mammograms and sonograms and a biopsy is not ruled out asap. Health countdown for nonsense, 3%, 4%, 5%, 6%....... is it any wonder that my primary physician states: 1 out of 3 women have breast cancer. She didn't say where, supposedly the moon. Duh, yeah, mammogram them twice a year consecutively within a couple of weeks, why don't you?
I try to transfer all this garbage to another center that might be more reliable and in the process open the sealed envelope and read the doctor-to-doctor correspondence. Doh most of what they are describing is the nature of my scoliosis and the scarring that took place from the City hospital malpractice or negligence, whatever. (They denied me the steroids that the private hospital prescribed. I suffered six months with something that was to take six weeks for recovery due to the F****** A******* City hospital.) At any rate the bottom line is that this other center is governed by the same 'no mammograms here ma'am' insurance company. They accepted me also, lol. This is a scam for sure. I am not the only one I found in further investigations.
The point is that Medicaid wrote me a letter stating they would not pay for the first mammogram because it was not an emergency. I got bill collectors and notes of determination and I'm just an innocent bystander except for constant ROFL. Finally I call them and they are goofing off at the management center for medicaid. I call again and I get someone who gives me req numbers for the xrays in question. They tell me to call the governing insurance company for the imaging center. I go huh? Isn't that what you are suppose to do? It is quite instructive as I am passed along to five different representatives of that company. They say we do not cover mammograms to my question 'three times, three different people got an ok from your system for this (that is my primary physician, and twice the imaging center)' ???
The next day I get a bill collector's letter. Ok now is the time to really let them have it, shockingly let them have it, wake them up let them have it, nothing held back. I let them know how duh they are and explain their job to them. I explain without a doubt I will not be paying one red cent and by the way you are quacks. I described what went on in the mammogram room. Exactly three days later I receive the billing statement and yes they paid the bill.
[ Instructive also as to the lies about our health care system that are fed to tube watchers that people going to private hospitals and can't pay is raising the cost of our health care. I went to the same named center and location by accident of a private hospital for the prescribed chest xray. My prescription form was accepted. Then they were harassing me about it later. I gave them the no holds barred lecture mentioned above. An advocate called me up a few days later and said you will not being paying anything on that bill. Today I received the bill on that chest xray service and lookie here, 1500, and the pay is 0. Yes 75% plus more than the center charged for bone density and mammogram. Now who and really WHO do you think is making the cost of healthcare rise? ]
There is not one bit of health care that I received that was of any use or quality. I don't trust a bit of it. First the primary doctor pooh poohs a high regarded ER physician in a private major hospitals diagnosis of first stage lung and pulmonary disease. LOL why would she make it up and I certainly did not want to be in the ER room and had not a clue as to the why of what was happening. It was the first time I was ever in a hospital in my non-infant life and I waited three days to go.
The primary physician then diagnoses that I have asthma. She has given me the breath test and check vitals and that is the conclusion. At that time I was maximally suffering. It take four weeks later to be given the standard quo test at a hospital. I am given a qualification test and I pass it. It is determined that only one test is slightly positive, the last test, the hardest test. So accordingly I do not have asthma. However I must insert that somehow the technician and I had a conversation about skiing and I mentioned that I was a ski instructor at Killington and then he says I don't know why she sent you here. He didn't get that such stunning athletism was before all this crummy environmental stress started happening. I have been unable to perform stunning feats in the snow since. Science is often colored by our personal perceptions, as witnessed by the dermatologist who gave me rather long lecture on people who have insect phobia. Yeah, I with my note from my landlord about the bed bug beagle finding bedbugs on my sofabed in my bag.
My primary doctor now forgets when she first examined me and she sees the splendid blood results for someone my age and that I don't have asthma. I have a negative lung xray (that was true when I received the ER diagnois also, chest xrays will not pick up 1st stage lung and pulmonary disease point blank & duh) She does nothing more until I mention the spammogram mammogram. Now she is all serious. If its nothing that's good and if they find something that's not good at all.
I ask can I go to an allergist, in the past they found allergies to almost everything. I am permitted to go to an allergist and I am told that I am very allergic to a weed that is part of the tobacco family and a mold and dust mites (most of the population is). I have to do the research, the allergist does not question the mold or the weed at all. I find that both cause the symptoms that I am talking about. They account for the damage that went on in the last apartment and apparently continues in this one. This apartment is a great control test because the culprits are gone for about 4 days and then stay 8. For four days I start to get better, optimistic and then crash.
I've been tested by a private allergist before and they did blood tests. They said that the prick stuff is unreliable, its the cheapest method there is. None of the allergies that I had in the past were present in the testing. One thing for sure the needles test left allergic reactions in my arm well over a week past the test. It was a very basic technician job with little interpretation.
The same was true of the opthamologist. Does a doctor tell the patient to tell the other doctor something? They don't write up anything? Odd they found ocular migraine and floaters no small thing. I had never had them before this incredible wave of stress, court case, medicaid nonsense and another god awful real estate management company and environment that spewed insecticides out without warning or explanation. They lied to me about the bed bugs and they lied to me about the cigarette smoke. Nobody is going to hold them accountable.
The name of the game is forced eviction. They threatened me when I moved in and asked about the neighbor's notice that there were bed bugs and they threatened me again recently when they asked if there were bed bugs or insects and I said yes. They said they were putting diatemaceous soil in the walls and they never did it, not the first time nor the second time. Why? Because they know they own the courts and they know the inefficiency and no care of the city government. The city would like to take people like me to the borders of the city and give us $35 to stay out. LOL but we aren't homeless yet, no matter how hard they try to make us. And who is this city, they are nothing, they are not even an nth of what I am. Like my forefathers before me there will be a day, a most regrettable day for them. I'll give them their due. Trust me they'll have their day in court. I've become a mighty legal force. One person I know who is in a personal injury case right now said, god, I would not want to be up against you. LOL yes, indeed, soon, very soon and it will be in a court that the city has no jurisdiction over. LOL forced eviction, an international crime.
Sitting on a trend...
