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  • Was without insurance on my last go round and went the no anesthesia route. Still got a bill from the anesthesiologist, who was of course with a different provider than the one who technically performed my scoping.

    Took a few go rounds in the phone with them, but I told them I very clearly remembered not having anesthesia, and if they were trying to charge for the “consult” I got from their anesthesiologist, which was simply, “oh, you’re not getting anesthesia, right?”, that I was in no way giving them the couple hundred dollars they were billing me.

    Actual experience wasn’t too bad. I think the prep is worse than the procedure, with it without anesthesia, I didn’t need to hang out as long after, and I could drive myself home after. If your getting one, you’ve likely already gotten the finger poke, and it wasn’t majorly worse than that. Plus you can watch your rear on TV!

    All the times I had it, I had to pay anyway, because while the providers are all network, the anesthesiologists all seem to not be and are the most expensive part. Private healthcare or no healthcare sucks.



















  • 29nSep 2020

    You know the toughest part of this job is not the relentlessly long hours or the thousands of kilometers travelled every month rescuing wildlife. Or even those dodgy petrol garage pies that we embarrassingly eat too many of.

    The hardest part is asking for donations to carry on doing the above. Our rescues have more than doubled this year compared to all previous years and our funding has halved in that same time.

    Thought we might add that donations we receive are 100% used for rescue costs, fuel, meds, animal food, vehicle repairs and other costs directly linked