Whining Thread #4

[joy]

It certainly baffles us Canadians. But, not my country, not my business. Happy you were able to afford the care and hope it was 100% successful.

Oh it baffles us too.

 

[Warren J. Dew]

It certainly baffles us Canadians. But, not my country, not my business. Happy you were able to afford the care and hope it was 100% successful.

Oh, it’s far more baffling than that. You seem to be thinking it’s like China where my father had his heart attack a few decades ago. There, the hospital checked with his insurance to make sure they would be paid, before scheduling the surgery.

In the US, they’re not allowed to do that. They have to go ahead and provide any emergency treatment, in this case the surgery, and only afterwards do they get to figure out who pays for it. I think in this case it will be my wife’s insurance, but I’m not 100% sure.

And to be honest, I don’t think fixing heart attacks after the fact is ever 100% successful. I can walk again already, but getting back to an all out viennese or quickstep I may never get back to.

 

[MaggiWrites]

Oh, it’s far more baffling than that. You seem to be thinking it’s like China where my father had his heart attack a few decades ago. There, the hospital checked with his insurance to make sure they would be paid, before scheduling the surgery.

In the US, they’re not allowed to do that. They have to go ahead and provide any emergency treatment, in this case the surgery, and only afterwards do they get to figure out who pays for it. I think in this case it will be my wife’s insurance, but I’m not 100% sure.

And to be honest, I don’t think fixing heart attacks after the fact is ever 100% successful. I can walk again already, but getting back to an all out viennese or quickstep I may never get back to.

Reassuring to know they have to "treat first, bill later". (I don't know anything about medicine in China; I guess someone planning to visit as a tourist would hope not to have an emergency there.) I hope you can at least get back to a sedate foxtrot or waltz, if not all the dances. I don't do the quickstep or Viennese anymore myself, but that's down to worsening asthma. We all have to draw in the boundaries sometime, I guess, but we strive to perfect what we still can do. Good luck with whatever therapy you're doing!

 

[j_alexandra]

A few Mondays ago, woke up with shortness of breath, some chest pain, and numbness in the hands. Got my wife to look up the symptoms and we decided she should drive us to the emergency room. The hospital identified that I was having a heart attack and I got open heart quadruple bypass surgery THE NEXT DAY.

So sorry to hear about this, but hope you have a speedy and complete recovery.