This is an adopt a user post:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/so...st-but-cant-or-the-adopt-a-user-program.2890/
Had a tiny lump about the size of a peppercorn in my the skin of my scrotum for months, but I neglected to do anything about it. Having lived in the US up till 2008, I'm just used to not going to getting things looked unless it went critical. Last week it suddenly started swelling up, to the size of a pea. The next day, a small marble. I set an appointment with my GP, the earliest available one being two days off. The next day, it was the size of a very large grape and at that point, quite painful. Off to the ER I went. After a wait of 4 hours, I was brought into a procedure room, where I was examined other doctors brought in, and was told immediately that I'd be scheduled for surgery. They had me in a ward within 20 minutes, and began pumping me full of anti-biotics. The next morning, they had me prepped and the anesthesiologist asked me if I would prefer to be sedated with a mixture of ketamine and other fine drugs, or epidural. I've had an epidural before. That did not go well. IV cocktail it is. In a matter of minutes from there, I was on the table, and doped up while the fine doctors fondled, sliced, and squeezed my testiclats behind this curtain over my chest. I never felt a thing. I barely recall being moved to my bed and rolled out of theatre into a room while they monitored my vitals as I was coming out of sedation. I was made to stay another night for more antibiotics being pumped in while they looked after me. The next day, the nurses did a repack and bandaging. From there, it was a matter of getting me scripts and arranging for a care nurse that will come to my home everyday for the next month and deal with dressings until it's no longer needed. I signed all of two documents on my way out. One agreeing to follow the rules for aftercare, and one for medicare saying that they would be covering my surgery. On the way out, I had to hit the pharmacy. This is the only thing I paid out of pocket for. As I said in the title, I am not used to this. Even when I was paying for healthcare back in 2004 in the US, I wasn't looked after as well as I was here. This procedure would have broken me financially at any time, regardless of whether I had coverage or not. It's things like this that make it hard for me to justify moving back to the US. My wife has expressed exactly zero interest in moving there with public healthcare being so far behind the rest of the developed world. I couldn't agree more. I am immensely grateful to be living here, not even yet a citizen, and still. This is the norm for people here, while in the US, our government treats it like some sort of pipe-dream that is fiscally untenable. Moving outside of the US has been such an eye-opening experience, and has put so much new perspective on US politics as well as exposing me to its' effect upon the rest of the world. I don't mean to be preachy, but I cannot stress enough the value of having healthcare and knowing that it will not bankrupt you in the event of an emergency. I only hope that one day, the US implements a single payer program. No one should have to suffer needlessly at the expense of a lifetime of debt. Thank you, Australia. I am happy to help pay into a system where this is what you get in return.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/so...st-but-cant-or-the-adopt-a-user-program.2890/
Had a tiny lump about the size of a peppercorn in my the skin of my scrotum for months, but I neglected to do anything about it. Having lived in the US up till 2008, I'm just used to not going to getting things looked unless it went critical. Last week it suddenly started swelling up, to the size of a pea. The next day, a small marble. I set an appointment with my GP, the earliest available one being two days off. The next day, it was the size of a very large grape and at that point, quite painful. Off to the ER I went. After a wait of 4 hours, I was brought into a procedure room, where I was examined other doctors brought in, and was told immediately that I'd be scheduled for surgery. They had me in a ward within 20 minutes, and began pumping me full of anti-biotics. The next morning, they had me prepped and the anesthesiologist asked me if I would prefer to be sedated with a mixture of ketamine and other fine drugs, or epidural. I've had an epidural before. That did not go well. IV cocktail it is. In a matter of minutes from there, I was on the table, and doped up while the fine doctors fondled, sliced, and squeezed my testiclats behind this curtain over my chest. I never felt a thing. I barely recall being moved to my bed and rolled out of theatre into a room while they monitored my vitals as I was coming out of sedation. I was made to stay another night for more antibiotics being pumped in while they looked after me. The next day, the nurses did a repack and bandaging. From there, it was a matter of getting me scripts and arranging for a care nurse that will come to my home everyday for the next month and deal with dressings until it's no longer needed. I signed all of two documents on my way out. One agreeing to follow the rules for aftercare, and one for medicare saying that they would be covering my surgery. On the way out, I had to hit the pharmacy. This is the only thing I paid out of pocket for. As I said in the title, I am not used to this. Even when I was paying for healthcare back in 2004 in the US, I wasn't looked after as well as I was here. This procedure would have broken me financially at any time, regardless of whether I had coverage or not. It's things like this that make it hard for me to justify moving back to the US. My wife has expressed exactly zero interest in moving there with public healthcare being so far behind the rest of the developed world. I couldn't agree more. I am immensely grateful to be living here, not even yet a citizen, and still. This is the norm for people here, while in the US, our government treats it like some sort of pipe-dream that is fiscally untenable. Moving outside of the US has been such an eye-opening experience, and has put so much new perspective on US politics as well as exposing me to its' effect upon the rest of the world. I don't mean to be preachy, but I cannot stress enough the value of having healthcare and knowing that it will not bankrupt you in the event of an emergency. I only hope that one day, the US implements a single payer program. No one should have to suffer needlessly at the expense of a lifetime of debt. Thank you, Australia. I am happy to help pay into a system where this is what you get in return.
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