$1.1 million dollar response for coma crash surgery
Me: $1.1 Million?!?! Dude, that is INSANE!!!!
Zolad: Yeah, I agree, that is a shit pile of money. I was in the hospital for nearly 3 months though. 80 of the 90 days were in ICU. The first 60 days were in T-ICU (for traumas specifically, that was far & above the regular price of ICU’s. The T-ICU, as I am told, has assigned 1 doctor and 1 24-hour nurse per patient. You NEVER share a doctor or a nurse. That HAD to run (I just guessing) like $35,000 a day. Keep in mind I was in a coma for 32 days as well. I went through surgery twice … and that surgery happen to be neurosurgery. Ya gotta know, as far as surgery prices go, you don’t get much more expensive. I did see some breakdown of this, and I do know the the brain surgeon was called in at 3:30am. His first procedure was within a few hours of my arrival (in a coma), so to prevent brain death & paralysis they had to operate immediately. His was something like $45,000. When I get parts of the breakdown, I will send them to you.Now that I look back, The Harv offered my folks the same surgical procedures for $49.99 and if they acted IMMEDIATELY, he would throw in a nice toaster & even a juicer/mixer. Damn, they fucked up that one, didn’t they.
Me: How can I see an itemized list of everything??!?!
Man, I thought putting that needle in your back would hurt LIKE A MOTHER FUCKER. I didn’t know that they could numb the pain prior to doing that. Wow!
Zolad: Ya homey!! Thank God. Even the dude, who was a nurse standing next to me the entire time had to laughing my ass off during the procedure. He said something like “Bro, without this anestesia, what’s being done to you now would have you screaming in pain.” I said “For real? No shit?” So he and the doctor BOTH started laughing and said “Definitely!! And NO SHIT, EITHER!”
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Hey, I know many of you guys have asked me how I’ve been doing & is my memory coming back. I always appreciate & love you dudes for showing concern.
Here is part of a letter I wanted to post. This was just a fraction of a letter to an old girlfriend. I wanted to post it b/c it helps make sense of the insanity of this brain trauma. I feel like I am loosing my mind and want to show a small glimpse into what it’s kinda like …
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I am beginning to get bits and pieces of my memory back … but it’s only tiny fragments.
To give you an example, I recall being at FAU in one of the campus buildings. I had this ball-breaking Professor named Dr. Timothy Lenz. I was in his class, in the 3rd row, (2nd from the left … the tables tops were wood-grain and the seats were a hard plastic yellow) and can recall getting a C- on a test that I studied my ass off on. I was shocked!!
Now, on a stack of Bibles, that IS ALL I REMEMBER of my entire life in college. That C- was no big deal, but for a reason even my brain surgeon can’t explain, that worthless info can just “POP” back in. As he explains so eloquently, it’s why being an specialists in the brain is noting like any other body part. What can return in my mind can be a huge event (like 9-11) or it can be worthless crap - like the school story.
NOW, SPEAKING OF RE-LEARNING 9-11-01
I watched the entire replay of the 9-11 event one night, and I was a total train-wreck. I began to weep, out loud. I wept … like one of those deep cries from the bottom of your soul. Ya know, the kind where your tears ducts are holding back the water equivalent to the Hoover Dam and it just breaks!!! I must have cried for 40 minutes as it played out - it was recorded as “live” footage. I obviously had NO MEMORY of that at all.
I re-lived 9-11 all over again. This is all very strange and tough to process.
If *ANYONE* has ANY questions, please do not hesitate to send me one. I’ll be glad to do what I can to assist if I can.
maurnojoseph@yahoo.com