Friday, July 26, 2013

Friday July 26, 2013

Friday July 26, 2013  update #524
Bella called about 9am to go pick her up at 10:30am so I hustled off and got there on time.  We tried to check out but they would not let her out until the Doctor had seen her again.  So we sat in the room for a short while and I was amazed at the huge private room she had (apparently they are all private rooms in this Hospital Monte Sinai) with a daybed for guests to spend the night plus a huge leather recliner.  The doctor came with an interpreter confirmed the medications Bella would need, and set another appointment  in about 10 days time.
The doctor had checked on her almost hourly yesterday until 11pm so it was a very long day for him. 
We can’t help but RAVE about the health care here.  Getting booked for surgery within 2 days is unheard of in Canada, and the total cost was equivalent to a rush flight to Canada.  Bella would have continued very sick if we had waited for her Canadian doctor to come through, and had Septicemia already.   We simply couldn’t have waited.  This is another great reason for living here.
A friend is just setting up a health care plan so I am picking his brain about benefits and costs.   The previous ones we had checked out had big deductibles and a co-pay on top of that, plus hefty premiums so we had opted to self-insure.  This was the first time in 2 years we had needed anything major and the cost is negligible in comparison.
Thank you to everyone for your good wishes to Bella during her ordeal.   She is doing as well as can be expected and I will do my best to keep her still so she can heal better. 
Between this medical emergency, problems with all our cash being tied up in the Coopera fiasco, and our business websites being down, this has not been a good week.   Coopera regulators are pushing us to the back of the line at every turn, not caring about the hardships they are causing.  They do not seem to realize that many people had everything invested there and don’t have access to cash anywhere else.  It is time to sue those guys for discrimination.
Sorry, but I have been just too busy today to even think about photography.

That was the day's excitement,   Cheers, Al   

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