[MUDDOG]

So that was about 10 years ago. I bet the bill was around $10,000. Would probably be at least double that now.

I didn't know car insurance paid for that. Good to know.

The last time I was hospitalized was more than 50 years ago (before socialized medicine, so it didn't cost much!), for a minor thing that didn't need hospitalization, but my doctor put me in anyway. But about 10 years ago, I did catch a rotovirus from my mother, who caught it in an outpatient procedure at a hospital. Nasty, but nothing to what you and your aunt went through.

[Nowhere Man]

Yeah, you're about right, it was around $10,000 plus therapy and time off from work which the car insurance covered part of my salary. I remember being laid off from my job while off from work although we did make a deal to "stay on" until my medical leave was done. Maybe I should have sued on that case but we did make an amicable agreement. My mother and grade school buddy worked there too, I got them on but they were let go, my buddy last. I could not take showers so I had to take baths and when my buddy was laid off, he came to my house and he poked his head in while I was in the tub. He shocked me with the news but he popped out of the bathroom until I dried and got dressed and he told me the story. His mom was still around then and he was afraid to tell her the news for a week so he hung out at my place for a week. 2003 was a mess but 2013 was worse since I lost Mom to inflammatory breast cancer a week before Thanksgiving.

So, yeah, anything involving your car, I'd check into it. My mother worked in insurance so she knew that.