Actress and activist, Susan Sarandon, revealed on social media that she is feeling very grateful for medicare after a slip and fall left her with a concussion, black eye, and fractured nose.
Susan Sarandon took to Twitter to share photos of her bruised face, revealing that after slipping and falling she suffered from a concussion, black eye, and fractured nose.
She took quite the tumble!
She captioned the photos, “A Little Slip”. But it certainly looks like more than that…
Along with the dramatic photos of her face, she explained that if not for her injuries, she would have been going to meet with Senator Sanders in New Hampshire to discuss a few concerns she has for her country and the rest of the world.
But since she couldn’t make it, she decided to take the opportunity to address her concerns via Twitter instead.
She didn’t let her injuries stop her from getting her message out there!
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“A little slip = concussion, fratured nose, banged up knee,” she wrote.
“So, it looks like I won’t be able to meet the folks in New Hampshire with Senator Sanders tomorrow.”
“I’m really sorry I’ll miss that opportunity but here’s what I’d hoped to say:”
She began by opening up about just how serious of an issue climate change has become.
“This is an emergency,” she said. “Ask the scientists, the farmers, the creatures of the sea.”
“Ask all those who have lost their homes from hurricanes, flood and fire,” she continued.
“Ask the endless stream of climate refugees, and the people of Flint, San Juan, and Standing Rock.”
“This is an emergency,” she reiterated.
She then segued into other important issues: Healthcare, gun violence, education, cost of living, racism, and homophobia.
“Ask the mothers who have lost their children to the opioid epidemic or because of the price of insulin,” she wrote.
“Ask the mothers who have lost their kids to gun violence in schools, in churches, in their bedrooms.”
“This is an emergency. Ask those separated from their families at the border, or those separated from their loved ones by an unjust, racist, for-profit prison system.”
“This is an emergency when our young people have no hope for education, for dream-making, because of insurmountable debt,” she went on.
“When teachers are forced to have additional jobs and when 40 hours of honest labor can still leave you in poverty.”
“When homophobia, Islamaphobia, transphobia and racism take lives, that is an emergency.”
“This is not the time for a ‘pathway’ to or ‘framework’ for incremental change.”
“Emergencies require bold, visionary leadership. Senator Sanders believes in us and that together a better world is possible.”
“He has been fighting for social, racial and economic justice his entire life, long before running for President, often before it was acceptable.”
“Now it’s time for us to fight for him,” she concluded .
She shared another photo of her black eye, with a caption calling for more accessible healthcare for all.
“I’m lucky. I have Medicare to cover my visit to ER,” she wrote .
“Everyone deserves the same, not access, not pathway to, not option.”
“M4A saves $. Nobody loses their home because of cancer, no rationing insulin,” she added.
You know, like the rest of the free world. #bernie2020
We’re wishing Susan a speedy recovery!