Julie,
I was out of town where that happened. My sister and I went shopping, which
we went and stayed all night the night before and was getting ready to come
home that evening. It took 3 hours to get out of that hospital.The seizure I
was out of before I got to the hospital.Where I do live there is a hospital
about 30 minutes away, but they can't do much of anything for you.When you
need specialists or something to have to go away from where I live. My
neurologist is 3 hours from where I live.You are lucky to have a hospital
that close. I hate to say it, but if anybody was dying around here, you
would be dead before the ambulance got here.It is just in the middle of
nowhere, but it does have it advantages, most of the time is peaceful and
nobody to bother you. Since most of my seizures just last a couple of
minutes, I can usually avoid the hospitals.Thank goodness for that. Take
care.
Tammy
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Julie Hope <epilepsyhealth@
>
>
> Tammy...ouch that is a bill and a half no guff. I know it is wise and that
> is why we got extra insurance on
> the side and made sure it covered ambulance. We are only half block from
> the hospital here and if had to go it
> would cost almost as much as straight across town.
> Julie
> Julie Hope
> epilepsyhealth@
> http://www.2betrhea
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "uniquepnk tds.net" <Uniquepnk@tds.
> To: <epilepsy@yahoogroup
> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [epilepsy] Re: New to this still ? when do you go to the
> hopistal?
>
> Tim,
>
> I have been taken a few times, but never like that. That is awful. There
> was
> one time I was taken and I liked to never get the ambulance bill paid for.
> The ambulance place sent me a bill for over $600 and I kept telling them I
> had a medical card to get it paid for. It took about six months to get it
> straightened out.The hospital was just 2 blocks up the street from where I
> was at. I don't see why in the world they won't leave you alone if you are
> able to tell them that you don't want to go to the hospital. It is just a
> bunch of aggravation. Having an IV put in you and taking blood from you. My
> neurologist can do that same stuff when it is necessary. I hate hospitals.
> I
> go only when I have to. Other than that I rarely go around one.Anymore you
> have to pay $50 copay everytime you go in the hospital and I am not giving
> them $50 for something I didn't want done to me. I tell my friends to tell
> them to leave me alone or they won't get paid.I haven't been taken since
> that copay was put on it, which I am glad it hasn't hasn't happened any the
> past few years. I don't go out much, but when I do there is always somebody
> with me, who knows how the seizures are and what I do. I just don't see any
> sense going somewhere when there is nothing they can do about it anyway.
> Just have to come out of it at your own time and be done with it. I sure
> don't see how they could treat you that way and act like nothing was their
> fault, that is crazy. I know that had to be a terrible experience for you.
> So sorry you had to go through that. Take care.
>
> Tammy
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:50 PM, TIMOTHY BALDWIN <tbb1@prodigy.
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Tammy,
> > I've found myself in an ambulance and on my way to a hospital as soon as
> I
> > become conscious because as soon as the paramedics arrived at a store due
> > them having called they've removed without looking for any signs of ID,
> > MedicAlerts, injuries etc. then I'll always receive three unnecessary
> bills,
> > one from each: Hospital, physicians, fire department, For ambulance
> service
> > (which is free and isn't sent until they've taken you to a hosp., its
> free
> > for them to just come and leave). I live alone I'm lucky that nobody can
> > call for one. A few times I had a seizure while standing at a bus stop
> and
> > someone in a car just called for an ambulance via their cell phone as
> they
> > passed by. One time, the worse was in Baltimore city. I had a
> > complex-partial seizure, a paramedic who had been talking to plain
> clothed
> > police officers a block away until I began to stand up at that time he
> came
> > up to me and ordered me, "you had a seizure get in the ambulance". I said
> > No, I'd like having a police officer give me a order like that. Can You
> > give me your ID, I would like to have an officer to speak to. He spoke on
> > his radio, he said, "I need Police assistance at..." .. the intersection
> of
> > the streets we were at. He didn't say he needed patient assistance, at
> all.
> > A female officer was the first to arrive and I waited as she walked very
> > slowly across a median strip and toward me. She was looking over my
> shoulder
> > at male officers who were sneaking up behide me. She kept my attention
> > forward toward her, not in any way behind me. A male officer grabbed me
> from
> > the back under my armpits and lifted me a small bit and threw me forward
> and
> > down, the paramedic watched as I became bloody and was put into his ambo.
> > with chin laceration, fractured r. jaw joint, many teeth either crushed
> or
> > split, fine fragments of that fracture punctured my r. ear canal and
> caused
> > blood to come out of my right ear along with the chin. Of course they
> just
> > said to the hospital that I was injured during a seizure.
> > Tim B.
>
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