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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • For reference, I was in a car accident that broke both of my wrists and I had to go to the ER. I was fine other than my wrists.

    The ER use for about… 3 hours? Was over $10,000. Because my health insurance refused coverage since it was in an auto accident.

    Luckily my bodily injury coverage on my insurance paid.

    Then I needed surgery and physical therapy. All of which were not covered by my health insurance.

    The surgery was about $32,000. (Included the metal plates and screws/pins as well as the surgical room and recovery + surgeon and anesthesia).

    All said and done total cost for having my wrists broken was about $70,000. None of which was covered by my health insurance and thank god my parents (I was still on their car insurance) paid for underinsured motorist coverage because the drunk that caused the accident didn’t have insurance. I didn’t go into debt ONLY because of that coverage.

    They charged me $40 for 2 Tylenol they gave me in the ER while I waited for them to come set my wrists and give me the big girl pain killers. $18 for a pregnancy test too prior to surgery that I couldn’t refuse. Unreal.




  • We had a solar salesman come by once and told us he could lower our electricity bill the same amount as it would cost us to install the solar panels.

    I knew there was something up with this but I decided to let him continue to talk anyways. He does this whole presentation with solar panels and how great they are for a good 30 minutes.

    Finally we get to the money part and he keeps emphasizing that they will lower my electricity bill so the cost of them will be made up there. I push him for the total cost of them plus installation and I about died.

    $30,000??? They literally wanted me to pay for these for 30 years. As long as my mortgage! Aaaaah!!!