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June 26, 2012 07:10 PM - 762 Views
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holy crap ! we just got the first bill from this surgery . just under 70k . there will be at least another half dozen bills coming before this is over. that was just the hospital . freaking room was 2600 a day .
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I heard you ate allot so the bill is high.
I was allowed to keep my Blue Cross when I retired . Medicare is primary and Blue Cross is secondary .
If it wasn't for that , I would be up S*** Creek without a paddle .
fortunately we have had a cancer policy through aflac for years. between it and blue cross we should be covered. the aflac covers me being out of work.
Shine,in 1982 -83 it cost my insurance company 150,000 to cure me of Cancer. I'm glad I had it, I felt sorry for the people that didn't. They became experiments on different drugs and treatments.
in August of last year, my Wife had a Thoractomy to remove the middle lobe of her right lung and several lymph nodes. She was diagnosed with stage 2 lung cancer at that time. The cost for the operation was about $74k. Three months later, she went for a CT scan as a follow-up. They found that the fluid around her right lung was excessive. A needle biopsy was performed and almost 2 cups of fluid were removed. Suppose to have around 2 teaspoons. She was then told that she is stage 4 because the cancer had entered her blood stream. So far this year we have gone thru about $70k in chemo and other treatments. One pill she takes is $177 a day. Unfortunately, her cancer is terminal. We, also, are thankful for insurance.
my prayers for you and your bride . give her a big hug from the porchdog . maybe someday they will stop wasting money on morons in the middle east and fund research to whip this horrible damn disease . i have lost my whole family to it. but all were heavy smokers. hopefully by quitting at 40 i have dodged the bullet .
Shine, I just gave her a hug from the porchdog. She sez thanks. I even got a little for me; hugs that is. To many of our friends are going thru this or other serious medical. Seems like all we talk about is medical stuff when we get together.
OMG you guys make me want to work till I'm 99. I complain about my costs now,but I'll just shut up and set here Quietly,thankGod!!!
Shine I'm glad your getting better....don't worry about the bill....we have obama care coming to us......check out my picture...I attended a jalopy Journal HAMB/ reliability run last week end over in Dripping Springs and through the Hill Country........this p/u...... EMS unit #1 was the star of the show
sounds like and is a lot of money--but your well being and getting better is still worth a hell of a lot more.
Take care my friend
Shine, I've learned money means NOTHING. Your health is everything. Glad to hear your on the mend. Fortunately I'm like G. Mobley. Medicare is primary and Blue Cross Blue Shield is secondary. My wifes cancer treatments which was exstensive cost me zero.
i have learned one thing. i am NEVER going to retire !!!! i am going out of my mind setting around. cant wait until i get the release from the doc to get after it again. i have so much to do and things are really piling up on me. thankfully jimmy brought me a load of firewood in the spring and i had plenty left from winter. so i wont be behind on firewood. but damn i have fences to get mended , need to finish the deck on the pool , oh well at least i wont have to die of heat in july . but then aug aint any better.
Sitting it out after surgery ain't fun going to be there right after the 4th for a few weeks, re-repair of a hernia. Even poor old Jake had surgery few weeks back, jaw bone problem. Had to babysit the little chit he could barely eat soft stuff. On pain pills he was comical he would just lay in the porch chair with a look like what the heck is going on then doze off for awhile. He is back on the job now, chases squirles for a living, does a great job of keeping them up in the trees. Hang in there, gets better you will be fixing fence in 100 degrees. Just yaking for something to read--Plowing as a kid older brother on lead tractor. Coming up on a corner turn I ran up close behind. Turned got straight, got front wheel into furrow, jumped off running slightly ahead of my tractor picking up fresh dirt clods and hammering his ass. Behind me tractor jumped out of furrow and got into the fence row. Before I could get back on it get it stopped it took out several hundred feet of fence including the corner post. Dad did not say much just handed me the old manual post hole digger, said you fix what you tear up. In July real hot was out there at least a week every day till it was fixed. Just passing old story to keep you from getting too bored. Hang in there.
I have an itemized bill from my aeortic heart valve replacement in 2006, its 41 pages long, the valve which looks like a miniature A/C vent is titanium, and the size of a 50 cent piece...........$23,000........cardiac intensive care unit, 3 days...........$18,000........total bill just above $200,000......having great insurance, and am now 100% overhauled...........................priceless......a couple of weeks you will be as good as new.
The surgery took 9 hours.......thats what they tell me, I was out like a light, don't remember a thing
have to start calling you the " bionic man " .......