One of my coworkers recently had some surgery. Things went well from what what I have been told. Meanwhile, she has been out of the office and on the mend. Then, suddenly and curiously, she had another unrelated surgery immediately thereafter. Because the second procedure was so close to the first, she has been suffering with the results of not 1 but 2 procedures. And she has been in pain. The story of how this second unrelated procedure came on the heels of the first was only revealed to me today. Follow me below the fold, as they say.
I was speaking to another coworker who has been keeping in touch with the surgery recipient during her now extended absence from the office.
They had a conversation about the timing of these two procedures. The surgery recipient indicated that she needed to have both surgeries right now, not because of medical reasons, but because come January Your Obama will make these things unavailable and/or subject to delay. Because of unspecified provisions of the ACA that will apparently come into operation in January, she advised the other coworker to get any necessary procedures done now while she still can. (I doubt that she used ACA when speaking about this.)
And so, apparently blissful in her ignorance, she is willing to suffer the discomfort of not 1, but count ’em, 2 surgeries at the same time. No doubt that she is a dedicated Fox News watcher. My only somewhat snarky question to her would be this: What if you needed 8 surgeries to be performed?
I don’t wish pain on anyone and certainly not on a coworker, but I’m having a little trouble feeling sorry for her.
I’ve heard those extractions of the cranium from the rectum are painful. It sounds like she might have gone for the reinsertion though.
Don’t forget the wallet-ectomy.
Depending on her policy, doing both in one year might save a very large amount of deductible and co-pay (out of pocket limits).
I repeat that the President should have pre-empted the Networks for an hour or two and explained in detail the law that he had just signed. Not just the goodies that we got (specifically, not vaguely) but what was NOT in the law. I surely don’t still know.
My boss still claims there are Death Panels. I asked him for a specific section of the law and a week later he came back with it. I looked it up and it was full of lawyer gobbledegook. The Title was “End of Life Consultation” and it did seem to discuss doctors withholding extreme treatment. I don’t really think there are Death Panels but someone should explain unambiguously. This fault isn’t limited to the ACA. Have you ever searched on http://www.ssa.gov to find out how your pension is calculated? I mean precisely, not in general terms, something you could put in a spreadsheet.
It’s counseling for ppl with terminal illness. But that’s what the repubs jumped on and called “death panels”. the ACA was forced to change the provisions on that though, I don’t recall what it was before.
Hah! He probably gave me a link to a draft version.
He probably doesn’t know though.
I never read the original or the final, but I’m guessing in terminal cases the doctor could lay out all the options. A relative of mine who had cancer wanted no extreme measures but the hospital completely disregarded her instructions. she suffered extra weeks because they kept giving her blood transfusions.