I think I found a magical loop hole in Canada's health care system that works perfect with my no insurance, starving athlete lifestyle, aka lack of funds beyond that for food.
If you are injured you get free health care.
And if that doesn't work, I can always tell them how many rounds of sparring I do a week. Telling anyone I spar 12 rounds on Friday mornings always gets a "are-you-crazy?!" response so adding the fact that I then spar at Fight Club and earlier on in the week on Wednesday is not needed.
So ya, showing up actually injured for some physical testing for my Canadian pro license has been the magic ticket to scoring not only a pass on the bill but also a push with getting the testing done. Proof in point, I told them yesterday about my eyes and they booked an appointment for today. And then today I showed up for the required eye exam for my Canadian professional boxing license and upon the optometrist noticing that I have an eye injury he told me I didn't have to pay for my appointment. Saved $90 by walking into that appointment with an actual eye injury -- an eye injury I didn't know I even had. I suppose I can't exactly say it was free though because the price I paid was me taking one shoulder to my eye and all the intense pain that came with that sudden impact!
Consequently, because last week's sparring left me with an injured eye, my optometrist then went to my new family doctor and told him to put a rush on my catscan, also a needed thing for my Canadian pro license. So my doctor's secretary called up the hospital to ask if they could put a priority on my catscan and then she faxed them the request with the word "URGENT" on it, just like that -- all caps.
Am I worried? Nah. Injuries come with the job.
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