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Filed under: A Tale of Two Titties, Bad Hair Days — Blonde Mom at 4:38 pm on Thursday, April 26, 2007

I just got home and got the mail. There was a bill from the MRI facility for the photo shoot of my suspicious boobs.

$1,272.11

Ouch.

I was kind of hoping they’d forget to send the bill. You know. As a congratulatory gesture.

You’d think that at a little over $600 a breast that they’d at least send along my MRI film so I could have the film matted and framed. Heck I’d be willing to have the tech autograph them. Maybe I could sell the film on eBay?

And yep. We have “good” health insurance. I just hadn’t met my deductible yet. That pretty much did it. At least my biopsy was fully covered, thank goodness.

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Comment by: Liza

April 27, 2007 @ 12:35 am

Ouch! That’s one expensive boob shots!
Come over to my blog and enjoy my video for the day :)

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Comment by: Mrs.M

April 27, 2007 @ 6:38 am

insurance sucks sometimes….

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Comment by: Mrs. Schmitty

April 27, 2007 @ 6:49 am

Nevermind framing them…I think they should be placed on your Holiday cards this year!

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Comment by: Blonde Mom

April 27, 2007 @ 6:55 am

LOL Mrs. Schmitty!!!!!

It could be a Merry Boobmas card. :)

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Comment by: Renee

April 27, 2007 @ 8:35 am

Maybe they could be your blog banner?

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Comment by: Bluegrass Mama

April 27, 2007 @ 9:23 am

Holy mammary glands, Batman! The best part is that if insurance HAD covered it, they’d probably have paid less than half of that amount.

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Comment by: Blonde Mom

April 27, 2007 @ 10:19 am

So I just really analyzed the bill. Our health insurance paid for a small portion. The original bill was $1,835!!!!

OUCH.

Seriously. This makes me wonder how people make it without health insurance.

Day-um.

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Comment by: Colleen

April 27, 2007 @ 2:01 pm

Gulp. That’s amazing! Those of us with insurance are certainly lucky. It’s hard to fathom the amounts of money that medical procedures cost. But I guess it’s a small price to pay in the grand scheme or making sure you’re healthy!

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Comment by: Anne

April 29, 2007 @ 8:41 am

welcome to my world. you know, if you don’t pay the bill someone else will. of course it may affect your credit but zzZZZZzzzzz…

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Comment by: Blonde Mom Blog » Doing it for the Tangles, and the Wine

April 1, 2008 @ 10:19 am

[...] This is my first big blog event as I couldn’t quite justify the bucks required for BlogHer after last year’s budget killing surprises, and not the fun type of surprise like finding an unopened bottle of Corona in the back of the fridge, but more like the gross surprise like finding an abandoned sippy cup, contents unknown but guaranteed to eat through metal, in the back of your car. For starters, there was the refrigerator that died while we were hundreds of miles away in Florida at my dad’s condo, the microwave that bit the dust, and my breast MRI, lumpectomy, and other medical expenses. [...]

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