Jerry got a statement in the mail from the hospital (doesn't include the doctors' fees, of course) today, for the period from his admission on 12 May to the day I signed the hospice papers, 7 June. Don't have it in front of me so this isn't the precise figure, but it was about $208,500. Again, this doesn't include the doctors' fees. As an example of the insanity of it all, the two short physical therapy sessions he had? About $1,700.
If not for Medicare and the supplemental Blue Cross insurance, I'd be facing bankruptcy - not to mention from the tens of thousands of dollars all his tests and treatments cost before 12 May.
So there you go.
In other news, I think it may be time to turn to Didion. Will be picking up a copy this evening. Hoping for wisdom and some reassurance that surviving this is possible, and desirable.
