A twenty-something Hawaii transplant living it up on the East Coast for the past 10 years (Boston and Stamford, CT). This blog is to document my daily adventures and things that I find cool, uncool, hilarious, awe-inspiring, and annoying. Please feel free to email me at hawaiigurlinct@gmail.com.
January 17, 2012
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Holy crapolas
Okay so it’s totally bad form to be talking about huge quantities of money, right? But this is so ridiculous I just have to. And let me preface this with the fact that I am extremely lucky to have health insurance through new-new job so this actually is not what I’ll be paying.
First bill came in from my little appendix issue. This is just for the surgery - not the ER visit or the many different tests they ran or my hospital room. Just the 60 minute surgery. Any guesses? IRL I got guesses between $5K and $10K. Not even close.
Drumroll please…. $31,007.04. I read somewhere that a laparoscopic appendectomy is one of the most common surgeries that people have. So you know what I take that to mean? I take that to mean that while it was really sweet that my parents’ tagline in terms of education and profession was “we want you to be happy.” Screw that - I will expect nothing less from my future children than Preston Burke-grade surgeons.
