A kidney stone again

Well I got a kidney stone again. Being meaning to write about it but haven't felt like doing much of anything at the moment. I started having signs of the kidney stone a week ago today. I was hoping it would just pass and I wouldn't have to go to the doctor but it didn't work out that way. I got to hurry so bad on Wednesday that my husband had to carry me to the emergency room. We got to the emergency room about 12:00 or 12:30 pm and didn't get out there until nearly five. But I wasn't feeling no pain. The er referred me to a urologist and I got in to see him on Thursday. And he set up a kidney stone surgery for Friday. He did the shockwave blast to break it up. On Thursday before the lady that sets up the appointments called to have my set up. She had to arrange payment. She wanted me to pay over $800 and there was no way we could do that. After we set up a payment plan she called to set up the surgery. Once I got to the outpatient surgery I had to make another payment plan before I could get the surgery done. What has this country come to when someone is in so much pain has stand up and make a payment plan because they don't have $2500 to have surgery done. Yes we have insurance but we have a high % and had not reached it yet. Once I told them we didn't have that money. They wanted me to pay half of it. Seriously if I didn't have the full $2500 what makes you think I have the half of it. Then she asked how much I could pay. I said $200. So all together before having surgery I had to pay $600. And that is so wrong. I was supposed to be at outpatient at 12:30 pm on Friday and we didn't get out of there until after 8pm that night. And very since then I have been pretty much in bed sleeping on and off.