“So, “B”…how do you react to General Anesthesia?”
“Not a clue”.
“How did you do last time you were under anesthesia?”
“Not sure, you’d have to ask my parents, that was like 50 years ago…when I had my tonsils out”
“You’ve never had an operation since? No medical procedures? No hospitalizations?”
“Nope, a few emergency room visits….stitches, broken bones, broken ribs, etc… under local, and few minor things in a doctors office, but nope, haven’t been hospitalized for more than a few hours in 50 or so years…..and haven’t been under since my tonsils. ”
They were incredulous. Apparently most people just aren’t healthy and/or don’t just get numbed up, stitched up and go back to work…OR get lots of surgeries throughout their lives….I dunno
Thing is, being self-employed makes getting insurance difficult these past 25 years, and I haven’t needed much medical care anyway. Making too much money makes it very difficult (at any reasonable rate) to find decent cheap insurance (with a decent deductible) now that I’ve retired….And I’ve paid into the system for 40+ years and never used much in the way of benefits anyway, which sucks, but there it is…(Men essentially, for the most part, subsidize the women and children in our society insurance wise anyway, but I am even moreso than most as I generally didn’t even meet my yearly deductible and often paid for any work done much of the time ’cause paying cash was about half of my insurance cost…..)