My Insurance Experiences

       I recently had an accident.This was the first time I ever had to use the Hospital Emergency Room.I was using a pair of pruning shears to cut weeds.I don’t know how it happened but I dropped them and they somehow hit my leg below my knee.I did not realize at first that my leg was cut.I did feel a sting  and when I reached down to retrieve the shears,I saw blood was running down my leg.I tried yelling for my kids but no one could hear me.One reason being one had on the ear phones to the pc and one had the phone to their ear,the other was in the yard playing with a friend and the neighbors had a motor cycle running up and down the road ,so of course they could not hear me either.I was thinking a person could die here and no one could hear them!By this time my sock and the tongue of my shoe was soaked with blood so I had to hold my hand over the cut and walk stooped over back up hill to my house.

       My son drove me to the hospital where I sat in a wheel chair holding a blood soaked dish towel over my leg for 2 hours.After 3 stitches I went home. My bill for the Hospital Emergency Room was over $500.00 and the bill from the Doctor was over $800.00.I would have never thought that something that small could have cost so much.Thats what it cost without insurance,so be prepared to pay those bills if you have no insurance.
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