Rhyothemis<p>So... I complained about my weird ankle issue and the universe decided to teach me a lesson by giving me something much, much worse to deal with.</p><p>My daughter passed blood and a clot in a bowel movement. No pain, so probably not hemorrhoids. Horribly similar to what happened to the young woman in this documentary from Australia -<br><a href="https://youtu.be/jW8o8RhoKU0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/jW8o8RhoKU0</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>We applied for MSP on June 28 (needed to get an address before applying); we arrived in BC on April 17. We've not received our enrolment letter yet.</p><p>You can no longer get a colonoscopy from a private clinic in BC; the clinic that used to offer them said to go 'south of the border'. Montreal has private colonoscopy clinics. They charge ~$1,700. Seems cheap to me. I once had a cystoscopy in North Carolina that cost $13k. Luckily we had reached our deductible that year, so we only paid $1,300 USD.</p><p>We could go to Nashville, where I have in-laws. I looked up Vanderbilt's colonoscopy clinic and was appalled by a news story from last year about them not adequately sterilizing equipment.</p><p>So I am fearful of poor quality services and possible complications. If a complication were to occur then it would be better to be in BC and on MSP. But I also fear long wait times, especially for a young person, who might be de-prioritized due to perceived lower risk. She does have risk factors - previous PFAS exposure through our municipal water back in NC, lots of abdominal X-rays from NG tube placement during her hospitalization, and Celiac.</p><p>What should we do?</p><p>Should we go to Urgent Care before we get the MSP enrolment letter in case they might be able to provide a referral and get her on a wait list ahead of getting the letter? Or is that not doable? It seems like a lot of things depend on having a PIN.</p><p>Just wait?</p><p>Or go outside BC?</p><p><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>healthcare</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/BritishColumbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BritishColumbia</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Vancouver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vancouver</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/colonoscopy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonoscopy</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/gastroenterology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gastroenterology</span></a></p>