Coming Home

TBG is being released today.  The relief is palpable.... for both of us. 

The hospitalist managed to secure a follow up appointment with a doctor whose scheduler told me the next avaliable date was in November. 

Home health care is organized, and I had nothing to do with it.  Behind the scenes, people were working and planning and all we had to do was say yes. 

His bills this year are close to $500,000, and that's without this 8 day plus surgery stay. We paid a manageable deductible.  Procedures billed at thousands were magically reduced to hundreds because we have insurance.  The uninsured pay the not-discounted-amount.  It's easy to see why medical debt destroys families. 

Medicine in America is broken.  None of the staff here received the 40% increase that TBG now is paying for h his insurance.  Where did that money go? 

Gun violence is never acceptable.  I can, however, understand the rage and fury and helplessness that fed Luigi Mangione's desire for retribution.