• Nomecks@lemmy.ca
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    18 hours ago

    Canadian here. Had an accident and took a ten minute ambulance ride in Minnesota. $1400.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      10 hours ago

      Also Canadian.

      While in Seattle on an H1, needed to go to Northgate for a routine maintenance procedure. (I’m a twin. Guess which procedure)

      It’s a well-developed thing, and so i tell the doc, “look. This has been developed for 10 years, it responds well once the pressure’s off, don’t cut me just gimme a local and draw it out with a horse needle.” He agrees.

      Next thing I know, “And here we have Mr Guppy, presenting with…” and a dozen kids are looking at a nekkid part of me. And they shoot the local.

      And I feel the push of the scalpel cutting. Those motherfucking butchers. And butcher they did.

      Had to pay $500 on the way out, and apparently that’s a lucky thing even with my American insurance at the time.

      Ultimately I came back to canada because the risk of a car crash ruining me financially for life was too much to bear. Fuck that.

    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      Also Canadian, would drag myself across the border on a broken leg and throw myself on the mercy of the Niagara Falls hospital before I ever got near an American hospital. I’d be bleeding from my head wound and assuring the border guard I had no alcohol or tobacco and did not spend over my dominus.