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8:30 am called doctor, 9am in office, home 4 stuff, emergency 10am checked in, lined up for tests, 1pm finished tests
In Response To: Hey, wait a minute. You're Canadian. 
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() CAT scan/blood/put on IV drip for pain and antibiotics and saline solution and in a bed.
Cost was something to consider.... oh wait.... there are no user fees here...
Got another visit tomorrow for more blood tests and such but I got sent home early (had top promise to inject the blood thinner myself (to the stomach) and take it easy or it would have been two more nights in the hospital.
How's things with you these days Dave?
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- Photo day anyone?
- Moonrise over Toba Inlet
- EIDER's bowsprit.
- Cleared for takeoff on runway 17C/
- My personal sailing (not) chair for the past week+
- Sorry to see that
- My breasts will have to stay the size they are.
- Is that good?
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All kidding aside, went to the hospital for diverticulitis, but they saw a blocked vien...
- Good luck
- Actually, everything else was spotless. They suspect it may have been an in jury... who knows.
- Glad to hear you're ok, Don.
- Hey, wait a minute. You're Canadian.
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- 8:30 am called doctor, 9am in office, home 4 stuff, emergency 10am checked in, lined up for tests, 1pm finished tests
- Speaking of which....Anyone have expererience like this?
- That one's been debunked as a total fabrication...
- I do have some experience with this...
- But But...
- I just can't get over your treatment by an insurance company.
- Thanks for being the voice of reason
- Here is an interesting article on US health care spending
- Well then, how do you keep insurance companies in the great white north...
- They're buillding two new HUGE hospitals here. And the tripling in size of my local one is done.
- What, hospitals... oh no way...
- My insurance company is in theory "non-profit"...
- Great study, and a solid case for single payer.
- My insurance company is in theory "non-profit"...
- What, hospitals... oh no way...
- They're buillding two new HUGE hospitals here. And the tripling in size of my local one is done.
- Well then, how do you keep insurance companies in the great white north...
- That one's been debunked as a total fabrication...
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- Glad to hear you're ok, Don.
- Actually, everything else was spotless. They suspect it may have been an in jury... who knows.
- Good luck
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- Is that good?
- My breasts will have to stay the size they are.
- Sorry to see that
- Spreader brace fixed
- Nice that you can do that; mine are either in or out, no in between
- In Charleston...
- Moonrise over Toba Inlet