<prompt> Human: After a 3 year wait, 11 months ago I received the most life changing gift a person could EVER receive... A new heart. I was weeks away from death and looking at my wife, two children and a grandchild going on without me. Yet I made it! My fortune and luck have never collided in such a way. The 3 year wait was hell. Everything the doctors did for my kept me alive but at an insane cost. Strokes, infections, constantly sick... I could go on an on. The basic cost for this from diagnosis to transplant was over 5.1 million. Some of this I am responsible for. Its devastating to be in this financial mess, but Im alive!Wee done fundraisers and so many have given so much, but my medical debt is huge and Im still not working. Im 52 and live in the US. I have fantastic private health care, but theres a 7 thousand co-pay that has to be met every year before things are covered 100. We have outstanding balances going back to 2011. My co-pays on my ant-rejection meds is outrageous. Im on disability and my wife works full time. My pay on disability in 40 less than my working wage.Theres no way around it. Im fucked, but Im alive to enjoy the fucking.Edit: The 15k is simply a snapshot. I receive weekly bills that exceed my payments by thousands. Next month I may own 20k. These new bills will continue for the rest of my life.  <response>: Youre responsible for less than .3 of that bill. Lets keep some perspective here because your op made it sound like you were in a far bigger mess. 