FREAKING. OUT.

[jwyche]

Hi, I am writing this to you from hyperventilation land because I got a bill from the hospital for $458 today. Fuck. It cost me $249 to walk in the door and another $209 for the x-rays I never even got to see. I'm feeling very gloomy all of the sudden.






Okay stay calm stay calm stay calm.

Comments

[misstiajournal.livejournal.com]

don't worry about it...write a pithy note something like "i am very broke and poor and i bet your hospital has a plan for poor peoples right?? why not tell me about it? and why bill me for xrays i couldn't even look at? i want copies."

[frostapostraphe.livejournal.com]

I'm so pissed! I think I will do that. ;alskdfjowaiwaaoa!!!!

PS good use of "pithy"

[scoobidoobidrew.livejournal.com]

ohhhhh noooo!!!! that sucks!!! Im sorry!

[tune.livejournal.com]

yep...then (if you're like me) you start getting serious anxiety everytime you get them in the mail so you keep setting them aside with the intention of contacting them...but all of a sudden it's six months later and you get a notice from your credit card they're lowering your limit by $300, etc etc...
I think the suckiest part is that if I would have fronted cobra, the government would have paid it for me. But since I couldn't afford it, i'm screwed and stuck with a bad credit rating. Not to mention the shit i've had to go through with the "disease" and all that. Win on top of win, go me.

Just call them, i'm sure they'll work out a payment plan. They usually do! Also i've got a few calls for state assistance but...never called them back either. There are a bunch of ways to just pay it off so it doesn't get stuck to your credit rating.

[frostapostraphe.livejournal.com]

I hate to complain, but American healthcare really fucking bites. They should do the same thing with doctors that they did with journalists in Iraq except instead of embedding them into war they should embed them into poor people's families so when we get sick they feel sorry for us and treat us for free.

[buddhafinger.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, those bastards. I'm really sorry to hear that.

That picture's beautiful.

My suggestion:

1. Gin.
2. Gay bath (candles etc).

When you next get ill come to England and you'll get treated free. Flights would probably cost about the same as the fucking x-ray bill alone... unbelievable.

[frostapostraphe.livejournal.com]

OMG GIN AND GAY BATH!

I will do both those things immediately.
And I honestly wish I would have gone traveling instead of gong to the hospital- they didn't do anything except say, "Yup, broken." I could have done that on my own!

But all this makes me realize I hope you don't get intestinal worms in your travels or anything, kay?

[la-guinevere.livejournal.com]

don't worry!!!! i'm sure you'll handle the bills fine! :)
....and fire never looked so beautiful before..

[frostapostraphe.livejournal.com]

You're right- somehow it'll work out. Eek!
For some reason that cardboard was really difficult to set on fire.