Reply #117: When I was over there, I got some sort of respritory thing

[quakerboy]

I think i have pressure issues, cause it started in my ears on the flight, and then headed down my throat and into the lungs. I lived with it for a few days. College students do that. Then I went in. I had no clue. A Dr saw me in under 15 minutes from arrival at the hospital. That Dr had a bedside manner far greater than any i have ever met anywhere else. They rushed me into x-rays, prescribed a few things, and sent me to a pharmacy. No charge for the poor benighted foreigner. I think I ended up with a about a 10 pound bill from the pharmacy, but that included several over the counter throat lozenges and some soda.

Now I am here with no insurance, and no realistic hope of having any.