Originally Posted by BFT3K

I went to the emergency room a couple of years ago with a really bad back pain. It was terrible!

By the time they saw me however, the pain was gone, but I was already signed in.

They took a few tests and told me that I had just passed a kidney stone internally, from my kidney to my bladder.

I was in the hospital for less than 3 hours.

A few weeks later I started receiving the bills. All said and done: $5,000!!!!

$5,000 to TELL ME I had just passed a kidney stone! Are you fucking kidding me?!

And there are right wing asswipes in this country who think our healthcare system is just fine. Amazing!

Originally Posted by justinsain

That is about as good as anyone could hope for

Mine happened one morning as I took off for work. Felt fine going out the door, stopped at 7-11 for a drink and felt a slight stomach pain. By the time I got going in my car it had gotten progressively worse so I did a U turn and headed home.

Barely made it up the stairs and inside before collapsing on the floor in a ball of pain. It was intense. My boss called and wanted to know why I wasn't on the jobsite and he quickly came over to take me to the emergency room. I was doubled over in the front seat of his truck.

Got to the emergency room and checked in and the nurse told me to take a seat and wait for a doctor. I'm no sissy but the pain was super intense. I kneeled on the floor with my face in the chair seat and rocked and groaned to help relieve the pain. What seemed like forever a doctor finally saw me. He asked some questions and then they laid me on bed and ran me through a machine for the X-ray or whatever.

Once they had determined it was a kidney stone they gave me a shot of something like morphine or demerol and within seconds the pain went away. It's hard to describe but the pain was almost unbearable. I've also had a toothache that sent me to the floor and I'm going to say that was worse than the kidney stone only because the pain was in my head and it felt like it was going to explode.

Cost for my kidney stone was $5,000 as well