"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 18:38:22 +0100, "Ophelia" >
> wrote:
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>>
>>"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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>>> On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 09:45:29 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>>>
>>>>Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I spend 4 days in ICU and another 3 nights in the hospital. I was
>>>>> billed
>>>>> nothing for all that.
>>>>
>>>>My God. If that was in the USA, you would face a bill of (just
>>>>guessing) over $20K.
>>>>
>>>>That night 7.5 years ago that I had severe asthma and was stuck
>>>>sitting on the toilet all night - very labored breathing and even a 7
>>>>step walk to the phone to call for help would have killed me. After
>>>>spending about 8 hours on the damn toilet with very labored breathing
>>>>all night, I was finally healed enough to get up, dressed, and I drove
>>>>to a "minor emergency clinic." Very labored breathing even for that.
>>>>
>>>>As soon as they heard that I had no insurance, they treated me quite
>>>>shabbily (imo). They didn't want me there and acted like I was some
>>>>bum off the street after free medical care. I was told that the doctor
>>>>was running a bit late and I should go to the emergency room.
>>>
>>> A clinic would not have told you to drive to the ER, they would have
>>> called an ambulance.
>>>
>>>>I told
>>>>them that I was doing ok just sitting there and waiting but to get up
>>>>again would be a hardship. I'm not leaving.
>>>>
>>>>So then she told me, "You know, this could be expensive"
>>>>I told her, "I've got money, I'll pay for this today"
>>>>She still didn't seem convinced. Again, I was made to feel like some
>>>>bum.
>>>>
>>>>So I finally got to see the doctor. They treated me there and I was
>>>>good to go plus I got prescriptions. Funny how just 1/2 hour treatment
>>>>in the doctors office fixed me when I really almost died of asthma
>>>>attack
>>>
>>> That's why you need medication at home, you should have an Albuterol
>>> Sulphate inhaler on you at all times, and a nebulizer at home... with
>>> a neb treatment at home you'd be fine in ten minutes.
>>
>>Yes, I have all those things and have never got into difficulties the way
>>Gary did. As soon as I have a problem I have everything I need to treat
>>myself instantly!
>>
>>I hope Gary will take better care of himself now. What he suffered and
>>the
>>way he was treated was dreadful.
>
> Essentially it was Gary's own doing. Nebulizers cost very little,
> $50-$80, they can even be obtained for free. Albuterol sulphate
> ampules are dirt cheap, they cost no more than smelling salts, usually
> free from ones doctor. If his primary care physcian knows he has no
> insurance and can't aford medication a plan can be set up with the
> pharmaceutical company to provide meds for free from a local pharmacy,
> plus doctors have lots of free samples, just need to ask. Gary was
> really nutso to sit in his toilit all night because he had no
> medication on hand that could save his life, what a low IQ jerk. If
> the story he told is true (which I doubt) he's very lucky to have
> lived, Asthma exacerbations don't get better by waiting, they become
> worse. Gary, if you are truly an Asthmatic, get educated, if you're
> lying STFU.

How about you STFU with your worthless judgments of other people? Start with
your miserable self, you old gasbag.

Cheri