Weak Dollar!!!
 

It's time to pay for Diane's surgery and the dollar is in the toilet.

It's 1.57 and some change now... it's gone as high as $1.5901

It's such a bummer to watch money evaporate!

Mark

OK... For those who went to Europe for surgery, what did you have to pay for Euros? Give your surgery date too!

Mark, September 2002, AlphaKlinik, L4-5, L5-S1 Charite, 22,000 Euros converted at .98 dollars per Euro

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=U...urce=undefined


Hope this help somewhat....

No surgery in Europe, but here's a long history of those values in question. Have a bucket next to you !!!!

Global market probs
 

Hey Mark,
For awhile now I've been thinking just the same thing as you mentioned and again kicking myself in the butt for not having done something back when the dollar was stronger tho oh well~ what's a body to do? Just hang in there I guess and hope that there's going to be some light at the end of this depressed dollar tunnel (read the global market plummeted over the weekend). Might be a long haul tho.

Are you leaving this week or are you guys already over there?

Have you looked into the possibility of surgery in Oz? Our dollar is not that different to yours at the moment and it's a wonderful country to recuperate in :).

I could give you some names of some Neurosurgeons.

Hucky

October, 2005... about $1.22/1.26

Oh this sucks. So sorry for you, Diane, and us fence-sitters.

But wait, only $13, 500.00 here for a one-level ADR:

http://www.wockhardthospitals.net/brain_spine.asp

But I'll do it for.....
 

$ 400.00

Sorry, I know....not funny. It's all of my artificial discs killing my brain cells.

Jeff

Had to take a loan on the house
 

I pd. 30,990 Euros which was 46K through Etrade. Sucks. :(

Of course that didn't include hotel, food etc. Another 2500K.

And airfare.

The rate was 1.48 in January on xetrade.com
 

Sorry I didn't see that you wanted the Euro rate.

1.28 per euro time of surgery aug 1st 2006
24316 euros was like 31,500 with back brace.
chuck

Jim, Aug 2003, AlphaKlinik, L5-S1 Charite, 20,400 USD converted at 1.13 dollars per Euro