Thread: I hate knocking people, but wouldn't you TRY to spell things right?

Originally Posted by Disco_owner

hahah , good to see the eyes are healing well.

I wish.

All I can see out of the left eye is light and shade. Hopefully another operation (to fit a lens) in a couple of months will fix that.

Of the surgeon's fee of $3,300 per operation, I've got back $465 from the health fund. Dunno about hospital costs or the gas man yet.

The right eye took 3 operations to fix the detachment in that eye. I still have to have the cataract removed from it.

I'm not game to add up the total costs of the 5 operations so far.

Originally Posted by p38arover

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Of the surgeon's fee of $3,300 per operation, I've got back $465 from the health fund. Dunno about hospital costs or the gas man yet.
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I'm not game to add up the total costs of the 5 operations so far.

Sounds a bit like the operation on my ear - then I got a bill for the assistant surgeon.... and a bill for the anaesthetist.... and a bill for the one phone call I made from the hospital (this wasn't the biggest bill, but it may have been the biggest shock - about ten times what it would have cost to phone from anywhere else!). And the surgeon wants to see me regularly for at least ten years (currently six monthly) at $60 a pop, plus three days time, travel and accommodation.

John

"Of the surgeon's fee of $3,300 per operation, I've got back $465 from the health fund. Dunno about hospital costs or the gas man yet. "

Geez!! thats pricy... I had retinal fixing on both eyes then cataract removal x2 left me about $200 out of pocket all up. Bonus is I now don't need glasses for general use, just for reading.

Originally Posted by 51jay

"Of the surgeon's fee of $3,300 per operation, I've got back $465 from the health fund. Dunno about hospital costs or the gas man yet. "

Geez!! thats pricy... I had retinal fixing on both eyes then cataract removal x2 left me about $200 out of pocket all up. Bonus is I now don't need glasses for general use, just for reading.

We are in NSW!

He even charges of the follow up visit - $110 each time, of which I get $30 back from Medibank.

Money grubber!! Follow up visit after each surgery was no charge. He charges about $95 per consultation, medicare refunds about $55. Up here they usually bulk bill Surgical and hospital costs so the actual surgery and hospital stay didn'tcost me anything.

I know this post's old and I haven't actually been through it all (I found it on a search for info on turbo timers) but I think it's worth making the point that not all people are blessed with either A: a good education, or B: a cognitive ability to use symbols for communication (i.e. dyslexia). Even dyslexics drive discoveries and might even want to sell them on eBay, and if they're ridiculed for it, they'll only be more afraid to keep at it...

Reeley!!!

This thread is quietening down without anybody bringing up that random use of appostrophie's.

I'm disappointed.

Cheers, Steve