re: #29 prairiefire

Cost for emergency pediatric appendectomy after discounts, deductibles and insurance payments ~ $5,000.
My husband is wandering around in a stupor.

No surprise. My wife’s BC surgery back in Aught-4 happened in November, then chemo was in December and January, and radiation was after that. We ended up maxing out our per-person out-of-pocket two years in a row, on one thing.,