http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/kathy-myers-michigan-woman-no-health-insurance-shoots-free-treatment-article-1.179514
Myers, one of some 1.2 million Michigan residents with no health insurance, according to CNN, endured a month of unbearable pain in her right shoulder after she injured it while playing with her dogs in her backyard, according to WSBT TV. The 41-year old woman took pain medication but was not able to see a specialist since she can't pay for health insurance. Last week, feeling desperate, she shot herself in the right shoulder.
"They said it would have to be life-threatening or imminent danger for them to do anything, so I was making it be imminent danger that something had to be done," she told WSBT TV.
The self-inflicted bullet didn't hit anything major, and Myers, who lives in Berrien County, got out of the hospital several hours later.
"I really didn't accomplish what I hoped it would accomplish," she told WSBT TV, adding that she'd hoped the bullet would hit bone or artery so the doctors would have to do surgery and fix her injury.
"I have no suicide wish," she said. "My life sucks right now but I want to live. I've got lots to live for and there's more good than bad in everything in my life, so that's not what it was about at all…I just want to take the pain away."
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