Submitted Medical Travel Expenses For My Rebooked Surgery
[ Sunday November 8th 2026 at 10:45 am ]
My left knee replacement surgery has been rebooked for November 12th 2026. My original surgery date was November 5th 2026. But my surgeon needed to perform an urgent 6 hour operation on a cancer patient with a broken bone. I got bumped. I am okay with this. I was rooting for the cancer patient.
I have now put together what is relevant for my disability case worker to assess if my rebooked hotel stay and travel are eligible for reimbursement. I have included a screen shot from the hotel booking reservation showing the cut off date for cancellation was November 2nd 2026 at 3:00 PM. The next item is the call history showing my surgeon called me on November 3rd 2026 in the morning. I also included the call history showing the calls when I confirmed my surgery wasn't happening on November 5th 2026 and when they called me with the November 12th 2026 date for my surgery.
Finally I have the actual receipts from VIA Rail for transportation and my new hotel stay reservation. The hotel stay is to get my pain settled before surgery. My pain causing nausea and dizziness is really debilitating. I have been in pain for years. This is the worst pain I have ever exercised. I normally takes 2 or 3 days for me to physically recover. The travel will be rough. But having my left knee joint replaced will get to the root cause of some of the pain that is plaguing me.