The Importance of Good Medical Insurance

Here's some food for thought. We recently got Rod's medical bills in the mail. Well, they weren't bills, they were statements on what our insurance has paid for (which has been 100%, thank goodness). So I thought I'd demonstrate how important good medical insurance is!

Rod's week in the hospital, including 2 surgeries: $97,812.12
Rod's outpatient surgery on his wrist (this was in in the morning, out at night, no hospital stay): $75,696.31
Our 3-hour stint at the ER after a doctor appt, to make sure he didn't have blood clots in his legs: $1,486.00

Keep in mind this doesn't include the ambulance ride (which was about $800, also paid for by insurance), or the custom-made prostetics Rod's gotten for his arm (there were 2), or the many doctor appointments, X-rays, etc., he's received at his almost-weekly doctor appointments, or his physical therapy that he goes to 4 times a week. Wow. The bills detail how much everything was. $1200 per night in the hospital. Plate in wrist: $1,049.00. Incredible. Good medical insurance is essential!! And to think we were grumbling about our measly $10 copay every doctor or physical therapist visit!!!

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I added some music to make blog viewing even more exciting-can it get any better?!! :) Let me know if anyone has any special requests!

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This is me so far.

A Holiday Tradition....

It's time for everyone to start preparing for our holiday tradition....arm wrestling!! Now, i know everyone is still upset from last years competition; when I (Emily) embarrassed all my older sisters and won the tournament, but i can't help it--i'm like the hulk...soooo if anyone wants to try and give me a little competition this year i suggest you start pumping some iron soon!! (p.s. Rod is excluded from this years competition; he is on too many drugs to be coherent enough for such an activity)

- if anyone wants to look at my itinerary for Europe and be jealous than follow this link!
http://www.byui.edu/TravelPrograms/Humanities_European_Tour_files/2008Itinerary.pdf

Franken-arms

Brooke, these are for the benefit of Devon and Cameron. If they don't throw up, they might really like seeing these pictures of Uncle Rod's Franken-arms!!!

Weekend at Party Pier

Emily is down from Idaho since she has all next week off, so we're just hanging out for a few days. We went to Karen's for dinner tonight and had a lot of fun...we looked at some old family pictures and saw lots of interesting 80's outfits and fem-mullets (mom)

So here's the narrative to the pics. The first is in Pompeii, or sin city. That is Mt. Vesuvius in the background. The next in at the colliseum in Rome. Amazing. Then the next is a picture of Dad in Lucca. Then Florence, the Ponte Vecchio bridge, the only bridge in Florence Hitler didn't bomb in WWII. The last is in Venice, a beautiful city.