Good Luck Vannin, Will be thinking about you.

This morning, this has been put on hold, because I have been quoted £2,200 for the oral surgery, instead of the £500/£600 I expected.

This is a chair procedure under local anaesthetic - 20 minutes - and a short rest afterwards rather than take up a bed.

So I am trying to get reinstated on the NHS booking I cancelled last week.

WOW ..... Where do they get their prices from?

I'll know more when the itemised quotation arrives by post. The clerk said on the phone, this includes 'full histology'. What I call tests! I am already due for a battery of blood tests (for FREE) tomorrow morning so I start fasting any time now. These are the annual ones for the cardiac clinic at the GP practice. Why the imminent results of those won't do for the private hospital, I don't know.

But I know they don't come cheap. A few years ago I 'went private' before and apart from the consultation fees with a Nutritionist and Endocrinologist - for Thyroid - the blood tests for glucose tolerance and thyroid function were £100 each.

Have succeeded in being reinstated on the NHS appointments, for three weeks time so I'll unexpectedly get a second opinion and take it from there.

Good news then Viv ..... hooray

Good Viv, that is expensive for tests and especially so when you must have them.

Received the hospital 'package' details just now. The quotation has included accommodation, meals and anaesthetist. But the consultant told me I would go straight to theatre, have a local anaesthetic, rest in a waiting room, then go home....provided I didn't faint, haemmorhage or any other complications!!

Don't want a bed or meals.

Good Heavens, my hubby's Angiogram was only £1300 and he went to bed for a few hours!!

Get it on the NHS Viv, you've paid into it for years!

Good luck, I hope all goes well.............

Keep us all posted...

It won't be for a wee while now, but all these good wishes I shall carry forward.....thanks to all.

Thinking about you, and wishing you well Vannin

Earlier I posted on the Blood Pressure thread, about my being 165/103 today after always having had low BP till last week! C&P-ing my comments from that thread!

Purely by coincidence BP started to rise after a mistaken verbal estimate for the private oral surgery - a 'few hundred pounds' changed to a printed quotation option of way over £2,000 fixed rate package!!! Immediately put myself back with NHS. So now we wait. The op would have been today......in fact, it would be over now!

The worry lies not so much in the mouth, as in the frustration caused by hassles. These red emoticons jumping up and down say it all