wow...this is why I am holding on *tightly* to my Canadian citizenship - if I should ever get truly ill, I'm going *home*.
my mom passed away at the end of June - from about May 24th onwards, she had multiple doctor's appointments, including a home visit, went into palliative home care and had multiple nurse visits each day, buckets of medication, home care assistants as often as we wanted, an ambulance ride (with 2 firetrucks and 2 ambulances showing up when we called...) and treatment in the ER (a day in the hospital).
we paid...about 90$ worth of meds - the first round of drugs, before she was "officially" put onto the palliative care program. Oh, and we rented a hospital bed and walker - which cost us about $150 - most of which was credited back to us, once she got into palliative care.
In July, my brother contracted some sort of scary skin infection. We went to his doctor, and then to the ER the next day - he then did IV antibiotics for the next 3 weeks - 2 times a day. We had 2-3 ER visits a week for follow up, then they gave us prescriptions for 3 weeks of antibiotics, and recommended that he take a probiotic at the same time.
we paid...$15 for the probiotic since it wasn't a prescription drug.
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my mom passed away at the end of June - from about May 24th onwards, she had multiple doctor's appointments, including a home visit, went into palliative home care and had multiple nurse visits each day, buckets of medication, home care assistants as often as we wanted, an ambulance ride (with 2 firetrucks and 2 ambulances showing up when we called...) and treatment in the ER (a day in the hospital).
we paid...about 90$ worth of meds - the first round of drugs, before she was "officially" put onto the palliative care program. Oh, and we rented a hospital bed and walker - which cost us about $150 - most of which was credited back to us, once she got into palliative care.
In July, my brother contracted some sort of scary skin infection. We went to his doctor, and then to the ER the next day - he then did IV antibiotics for the next 3 weeks - 2 times a day. We had 2-3 ER visits a week for follow up, then they gave us prescriptions for 3 weeks of antibiotics, and recommended that he take a probiotic at the same time.
we paid...$15 for the probiotic since it wasn't a prescription drug.
we've never seen a bill.