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Originally posted by Chewbacca:
Last friday I went to the Emergency room. My heart felt like it was beating out of my chest, I was light-headed and having trouble breathing.
My wife zipped me to the E.R. and we both laughed because just a few hours earlier my new Health Insurance cards had finally arrived. I have been uninsured for a few years now and it was a relief to finally be covered again.
New insurance card in hand, we went into the hospital. It took all of five minutes for them to get an IV in my arm and my vitals on a monitor. My heart rate was jumping all the way up to near 170, and dropping to 115 and back up. Crazy!!!!
I felt rather high, like I couldn't feel my body any more, when a doctor came around and informed us my condiion was called atrial fibrillation. My heart was out of rhythm and if medication didnt fix it, than a nice shock of elecricity would. Either way, I earned a stay in the ICU. I felt high from the oxygen streaming into my nose.
Sunday they shocked my heart, with 1/200 odds of stroke. Success! Its back in Rhythm now. Also I've successfully ( so far) quit smoking cigs and caffeine. I got out on monday! It's great to be alive!
Today they call and tell me my new insurance didn't actually begin until yesterday 08/08, although I received the cards on Friday 08/04.
I now owe thousands & thousands of dollars for a 3 day hospital stay. Wow. I guess it's great to be alive and I wish I were dead at the same time.
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Good to hear you're okay. They will let you do it in payments if you explain you're stuck atm and they will set up a plan, no problem. They have to treat you either ways. Medical expenses are insane. I went to the ER one time and it cost me about 1k all in all when the bills came in, I paid it little by little as I was struggling at the time and eventually it got done. Pay like $50-$100 a month and write it off as another bill for awhile *shrug*. The cigs and caffeine habits will save you that amount monthly anyways.