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so i'm in china right now and i got multiple kidney stones (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago by Midnight_Pearl@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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probably because i've been eating a lot of really awesome street food (that's admittedly sodium-rich but my choices are on me)

worst pain ever though like not even getting shot would feel this awful but hey at least i now know i'd make for a good punk screamer

anyway ended up going to the hospital and and despite being a foreigner on an L visa it was easy and affordable, and since my chinese is terrible (they naturally assumed such in advance) they had an english-speaking doctor video-call me to explain what the other doctors were doing before using one of those machines to punch my kidney stones into kidney dust

healthcare here is pretty cool, so common china W 😎 too bad i'm pissing blood

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[–] Midnight_Pearl@hexbear.net 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i did ESWL to treat it and it was only $300 USD out of pocket (including my initial imaging test and diagnosis), which is downright unbelievable when you compare that to what it'd be back home in ameriKKKa under the same circumstances

[–] SoJB@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago

That wouldn’t even cover my (US) monthly health insurance payment, and that’s before receiving any treatment at all which naturally comes with thousands of dollars in deductibles.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh wow that's like what I've heard about in Korea when I was over there. Prices for Healthcare are fucking wild even in countries that technically run theirs "for profit" - bullshit that that is - when compared to the literal daylight robbery our "take an advil for your sucking chest wound" dogshit healthcare

[–] Midnight_Pearl@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

yeah i'm gonna be going back home soon and i'm just very glad my kidney stone kicked into full gear here in china and not the US

i don't know what i would have done otherwise

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Yeah straight up, I wouldn't wish any kind of internal organ stones on anyone.