auntblabby
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23 Mar 2018, 3:44 am
nick007 wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
I hope everybody here is careful to the utmost, about sticking stuff in their ears. tympanoplasty is not fun. and not cheap either.
What is tympanoplasty 
I'm lucky that between my Medicare & Medicaid, I never had to pay a doc bill since I moved to Vermont. Cost $3 to go to the dentist 2wice a year but that's nothing. If I didn't go to a health center & didn't have such good insurance, I'm sure I would of got charged a lot for the examination & flushing my ear out. I probably would of went back a week later because of the ringing & hearing not being rite but we went to Louisiana to visit my parents a couple days after I went to the health center. Things had gotten alittle better by the time we got back so I decided to give it more time. The doc was rite about it needing time to heal from the trauma, I was expecting a week instead of a month but at least it healed & I didn't have to go back to the doc about it.tympanoplasty is where they patch up or recreate a new eardrum after you have either perforated it with a sharp object or have blown it out with sudden loud noise [gunshot too close to the ear]. you are very fortunate to have affordable health care, normally that is only granted to the middle and upper classes here.
nick007
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Location: was Louisiana but now Vermont in capitalistic military dictatorship called USA
23 Mar 2018, 3:53 am
auntblabby wrote:
nick007 wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
I hope everybody here is careful to the utmost, about sticking stuff in their ears. tympanoplasty is not fun. and not cheap either.
What is tympanoplasty I'm lucky that between my Medicare & Medicaid, I never had to pay a doc bill since I moved to Vermont. Cost $3 to go to the dentist 2wice a year but that's nothing. If I didn't go to a health center & didn't have such good insurance, I'm sure I would of got charged a lot for the examination & flushing my ear out. I probably would of went back a week later because of the ringing & hearing not being rite but we went to Louisiana to visit my parents a couple days after I went to the health center. Things had gotten alittle better by the time we got back so I decided to give it more time. The doc was rite about it needing time to heal from the trauma, I was expecting a week instead of a month but at least it healed & I didn't have to go back to the doc about it.tympanoplasty is where they patch up or recreate a new eardrum after you have either perforated it with a sharp object or have blown it out with sudden loud noise [gunshot too close to the ear]. you are very fortunate to have affordable health care, normally that is only granted to the middle and upper classes here.
I am very lucky. I had to pay to see all my docs in Louisiana because they wouldn't accept the state Medicaid because it wouldn't pay them enough. I had private insurance that I paid for & then had insurance through work. This is a perfect example of the many reasons I had to move to Vermont to be with Cass instead of having Cass move to Louisiana.
auntblabby
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23 Mar 2018, 3:55 am
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