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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 19:28:58 -0600
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On 1/25/2025 4:51 AM, D wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> 
>> On 1/25/2025 12:25 AM, Robert Woodward wrote:
>>> In article <vmuibl$1rpvo$2@dont-email.me>,
>>>   Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 1/23/2025 3:38 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>>>       bliss - surgery tomorrow so maybe the hobble will be less
>>>>> eventually.
>>>>
>>>> Good luck on your surgery.  I will pray for you, your doctors, and your
>>>> nurses.
>>>>
>>>
>>> As do I who had surgery today (and will be hobbling for weeks while I
>>> heal).
>>
>> Good luck on your healing.  I prayed for you too.
>>
>> I have not been in surgery since 2018 and I hope to keep it that way. 
>> That was my second heart surgery and it had a good outcome but was too 
>> eventful for the electrocardiologist and me both.  I woke up in the 
>> middle of the surgery when they accidentally nicked my uvula with a 
>> sonogram wand and I lost a couple of pints of blood which started me 
>> coughing while intubated.
>>
>> Lynn
> 
> How much was the cost of the surgery? I frequently hear horror stories 
> from democrats saying it costs millions of dollars and that you cannot 
> live in the US due to the high cost of operations like that.

My out of pocket cost was about $5,000 if I remember correctly.  My 
health insurance paid around $10,000 or so.  That covered three days of 
testing before the surgery and the surgery itself.

If you did not have health insurance then I would guess 10X, $150,000.

Lynn