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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on June 22, 2014, 12:39:57 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/114212702
Oh my.
You know, I hadn't been worrying about Skippy because I already knew he was okay, but I've been gravely concerned for his good friend and pal Big Mo, who seems to have disappeared from Skins's island after hundreds of mere lumpenunterprimitiven cavalierly and violently onslaughted her.
<<<hopes Big Mo's okay.
NYC_SKP (59,199 posts) Sat Jun 14, 2014, 04:38 PM
Just back from a "Debridement" surgery following a brain surgery. ACA covered. Ask me anything!
First and foremost: If you have been treated for hypertension, don't drop the meds unless you're told to.
I picked up my exercise and dropped 30, improved my eating habits last December and quit my $1,350 COBRA plan for similar ACA coverage under same provider, Anthem.
BUT, it took time for cards and I never picked up with my PCP for testing and refills of cholesterol and BP meds.
Big Mistake.
On 5-17 I became dizzy and fell, continued dizziness after a short unconsciousness took me to an ER, and a brain scan indicated possible brain bleed so was flown to Stanford and had a cranial angio, then brain surgery to treat a minor aneurism, then another angio and release.
The surgical site deal heal well and I went in last Tuesday and they checked me in, opened me back up (but didn't have to remove the skull piece again, thankfully) and sent me home today with a PICC and IV meds to be self administered for the next six weeks, pretty intensive but likely to prevent a relapse.
The jury is still out about coverage, but I know my $6,350 max out of pocket and deductible are covered (all that on the first day, easily).
I hope and pray for good health, but also hope that the ACA Silver Plan will cover everything, this is a costly deal.
Just some of the costs:
Ambulance: $2700
LifeFlight to Stanford: ~$25,000
Angiograms: $60,000 - $80,000 each for total of maybe $160,000
Cranial surgery: I have no idea, thinking at least $100,000 (I have one bill for one doctor alone that's $25,000)
Room and Board in ICU/Neurology at Stanford Hospital and Clinics: No idea, great care, five star staff and surgical crew.
Cost for return visit and second CT Scan and Surgery: No idea.
Six weeks of home health care, PICC system meds and other prescriptions: No idea.
I'm thinking this is at least a $250,000 medical event, possibly twice that, all for about $500 and month plus the max out of pocket.
I'm grateful for the medical team and for the providers.
Lesson learned: I take my hypertension meds, I check my BP with a decent device that has a memory that stores the values. A few minutes ago I was at 109/83... much better than the numbers I had when admitted!!!
Needless to say, there are other measures (reduce sodium, chill out) to manage stress; meds aren't the only way to reduce tension.
But I'll bet I'd not have had the problem had I not so cavalierly dropped them.
Be well, DUers!
<<<just checked own blood pressure, for which I don't take any pharmaceuticals.
102/58.
It must come from living a non-decadent, non-desk-sitting, life.
Long thread, mostly primitives wishing Skippy well--but no one's mentioning his good friend and pal Big Mo.
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Another life saving surgery that would be
denied placed on a waiting list under Obamacare.
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Wonder if Skip saw Amber's classy sister Annette while in sugary.
Lots of DUmmy sugary these days.
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Dear Skippy...please enter eternities roaster as soon as possible.
Thank you.
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Dear Skippy...please enter eternities roaster as soon as possible. Thank you.
Well, one has to use judgement here; one can't paint all primitives with the same broad brush.
Some of them have redeeming characteristics--not nearly enough to get them classified among decent and civilized people, or to pull them out of primitivity--that make them somewhat more palatable than other primitives.
Skippy's a primitive, no doubt about it, but he's not quite as loathesome as some other primitives.
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Yeah, I think he was staying at his condo - he is still renting that out because he has two mortages, don't think the other place has sold yet:
Checked into Stanford Hospital for a few new stitches at noon, got out at 2:00, finally had a chance to return the rental car to AutoWorld and pick up the Prius at Toyota in Capitola. Only a crazy person would drive in traffic back to Stockton so decided to take the time to spend the night at the condo, take in the view and the soothing ocean vibes
that was last Thursday. I still don't think he is out of the woods completely - it is one thing after another when it comes to Skippy.
As for Mo, seven hours ago from Chicago, IL:
the brakes between my brain and my mouth are quite shaky these days. i would fix that, but apparently, you cant really tell your brain how to act.
this was never a big strong suit of mine.
at least i am getting good at apologizing.
and two hours later:
Mo Cahill i'm blaming it on the death of maya angelou. i am thinking of dubbing it- having the mayas. i heard her voice sometimes, telling me things like- when someone shows you what they think of you, believe them. in a real place of rearranging. and breaking things, i guess.
cray-cray
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Yeah, I think he was staying at his condo - he is still renting that out because he has two mortages, don't think the other place has sold yet:
You know, this vexes me considerably.
Skippy's on the government teat, a desk-sitting (as compared with a really-working) bureaucrat, making more money than he would in private employment, living off the fat of the land.
And he's got money problems?
I dunno; maybe he was living as if he was making a million bucks a year or something.