Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lynn McGuire Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 19:28:58 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <9cq4pj56ks67jcpqf0ctsa301lotgi8c3d@4ax.com> <63eeaca6-efa2-b317-73e5-a61f016625df@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 02:28:58 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a331b7e5936ad31a7513d85c8c759140"; logging-data="1459808"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/pj2S+/iw4tH3uyf/uV7R8vGB9BfobIsg=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ixcip7RaWcO0uqGsrpbJUWTC2HU= In-Reply-To: <63eeaca6-efa2-b317-73e5-a61f016625df@example.net> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3368 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 , >>>   Lynn McGuire 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