Hey everyone,
I'm nearly 3 months post-surgery, everything is going well and so I'm attempting to plan my future.
For quite some time I've planned to travel to Australia/NZ for a year, I've done all the neccessary research and have gained a working holiday visa for 12 months.
Now I'm getting to the point where I wish to buy tickets/get insurance, well I've found some cheap flights and have been looking for insurance.
At this point my parents try to tell me that I'd have huge problems getting any insurance at all, and that I should just lay in bed for the next year (well pretty much!).
I've called several insurance companies and they say I could get insurance, but that it wouldn't cover anything related to my back operation. Now I can understand that obviously if I needed some more big surgery then it would be unfair to make the Aussies pay for it, in that case I would need to arrange to travel back. What I want to know is though, what about say pulled muscles in my back, or maybe (at worst) a rod that has come loose. Has anyone else succesfully figured this out? I feel that I'd be fine to travel, and the chances of anything major going wrong are minimal, but my parents still tell me its a bad idea.
This is really beginning to annoy me, I'm happy to go knowing that I may arrange to come back pretty swiftly should things start to hurt again, but I don't see why I can't be covered for anything minor, like maybe a little back pain that needs checking out.
If anyone else has had a similar experience I'd really like to hear from them, my surgeon is so conservative if I followed his rules then I'd barely have left the house since the op!
Thanks in advance,
Oli Norwell
I'm nearly 3 months post-surgery, everything is going well and so I'm attempting to plan my future.
For quite some time I've planned to travel to Australia/NZ for a year, I've done all the neccessary research and have gained a working holiday visa for 12 months.
Now I'm getting to the point where I wish to buy tickets/get insurance, well I've found some cheap flights and have been looking for insurance.
At this point my parents try to tell me that I'd have huge problems getting any insurance at all, and that I should just lay in bed for the next year (well pretty much!).
I've called several insurance companies and they say I could get insurance, but that it wouldn't cover anything related to my back operation. Now I can understand that obviously if I needed some more big surgery then it would be unfair to make the Aussies pay for it, in that case I would need to arrange to travel back. What I want to know is though, what about say pulled muscles in my back, or maybe (at worst) a rod that has come loose. Has anyone else succesfully figured this out? I feel that I'd be fine to travel, and the chances of anything major going wrong are minimal, but my parents still tell me its a bad idea.
This is really beginning to annoy me, I'm happy to go knowing that I may arrange to come back pretty swiftly should things start to hurt again, but I don't see why I can't be covered for anything minor, like maybe a little back pain that needs checking out.
If anyone else has had a similar experience I'd really like to hear from them, my surgeon is so conservative if I followed his rules then I'd barely have left the house since the op!
Thanks in advance,
Oli Norwell
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