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In reply to the discussion: I spent a very long day, today, in the ER and Cardiac unit. [View all]jmbar2
(4,886 posts)A few years ago, a friend came down from Oregon to visit me in Houston. She loved southern cooking, so I made a pot of beans and a skillet of cornbread and we dug in.
In the middle of the night, I heard her moaning and checked in on her. She said she was in the most extreme pain she had ever experienced. I took her to the emergency room where they did all the tests, and kept her overnight for observation. They gave her a super anti-gas medicine, and her symptoms subsided.
She was released the next day, with no obvious problems.
Weeks later, she got a bill for $10,000! Fortunately, she was from Oregon and had full coverage, so she didn't have to pay it. If it had been me, a Texas resident, I would have been bankrupted by it. I later decided to move to Oregon.
We have since laughed so much about it. And now that I am in the same city as her, we periodically share a pot of $10,000 beans and cornbread. If it puts us in the hospital we are covered.
Get well soon!