I have high blood pressure, diabetes type 2, and asthma. Without this place, I would be dead. I work for a school bus company, and they do not provide health care. One of my students on my bus knows Rick. His mom told me to call Rick. That was back in 2004. I’ve been coming ever since.

When I first started, it was like two times a month. Now I came once a month. Sometimes I am better than others in making it in.

The doctors here are a godsend. They have been very good to me. They are a great help. When I started coming here I was on pills, and now I am on insulin. Those bottles of insulin are very expensive. The medication I am picking up today would cost $600. Honest to God, if it wasn’t for this place I’d be dead. And it’s not just me. It’s all these people. My sister comes here, two other bus drivers I know come here. I can’t say enough about this place.

I lost my health care and I lost my insurance. I lost my job on February 6th. I’m a machinist. The company told me they were downsizing and they had to cut back. After so many years, the first thing they cut was my healthcare. They said they could no longer afford to pay for it all. I was paying $105 a month and they wanted to raise it to $200 a month. I couldn’t afford that, so I had to drop it. I had been with them for seven years.

I was out of medicine. I was feeling lightheaded. I’m dealing with diabetes, high cholesterol.

My daughter was covered under my job, but when I lost that she lost her coverage. So I bring her here. We all came here for TB tests, because we’re trying to adopt. We’re trying to adopt, we’re trying to help someone else out, but now we’re dealing with this.