I had emergency surgery on Saturday....

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45. gopiscrap

gopiscrap

Good to hear you was given the help you was in need of - and is okay today - and are not totally in debt for the rest of your life..

I had a rather unpleasant experience myself last year - ended up in hospital with pneumonia a kidney failure - and arthritis - all who was rather unpleasant - and two who could have ended in a untimely death if I had not managed to get into a hospital - I ended up staying in the hospital for 3 whole weeks - in a rather week state of affairs - but thanks to the medical help I was getting - I was able to walk out the hospital 3 weeks later - well enough to came home...

In the US I would have either been dead - because I was not getting the medical need I was in need of - or in so much debt I would never, ever be able to pay it back for the rest of my natural life... But thanks to the fact that I was not living in the US - but in a country with Universal Health Care - or single payer care as you want to call it is in the US - I was able to walk out of the hospital - without any debt to my name at all.... In the US I would have been at least 450.000 in debt, maybe more as the medicine I was getting possible was rather expensive - I was in very bad shape when I came in - the doctor at the emergency room asked me why I was able to even walk in the door -after some bloodwork they discovered I had CRP of 660 (Thats very, very bad as it should in a healthy person be lower - much lover, like in the range of 5-10 cpr pr 1000 ml blood - not 660 pr 1000 ml blood )... And should be on a stretcher rather than on my two feet's - I guess I'm just extremely stubborn I answered... But I have to say - I was very gratefully when I could lie down - and let the doctors take care of me.... I was in a horrible shape to be honest... They was really afraid for me for some time, but I managed to get strong enough for a surgery - and had a plastic tube into the trouble-spot so the urine from the kidney could get out more easy - And they also discovered why I had had the problem for a while - non of the kidneys worked as they should - one worked just 25 percent - the other 75 percent of normal.. So I use to say I have two kidneys - who togheter is the same as one healty kidney... Even it is some truth to it... Over the summer I belive it wil be another surgery to more permament fix the troblespot - and hopfully it wil do the tric for some of the prolems I have with the kidney - but I guess I have to keep and eye on the kidneys for a while - and to be somewhat carefull about what I put into the body - a lot of water is one of the key indegrence to keep it flowing and the kindney bussy doing what it should do - rather than going on strike!

After I got out of the hospital - I even got physiography - paid for by the same system as my legs was rather bad being in a bed for 3 weeks - I still have some problem with my knees - they are not exactly up to old habits - but at least I'm able to walk properly - even though I do believe I would have problems running - even if a bear was in my footstep Anyway - i got well - even though I later got an infections, who shut down the kidney again - and I ended up in the same hospital - and had another surgery to put in a little plastic tube into the area where the trouble was was, and the infection was stopped - and I was able to walk out of the hospital again - after a week - the first couple of days I even had the luxury to even have the room for myself - with a TV, luxury I would say - but then I was put on a 4 mans room - without any TV - but I had my Ipad with me so I was entertained as they have wifi there..

Every civilized country have in some way or another universal health care - it is just the US who deny the people coverage of health care as part of your country's "contract" with its people - and people is fooled into believing that a public option when it come to health care is the same as pure communism... With death panels and it all... If a majority of americans had know - what universal health care really is - and not the spin fox news and conservatives is giving you - then I guess US would have had universal Health Care... The ACA is a step in the right direction - but it is a small step compared to what a public founded health care is...

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