-=> Daryl Stout wrote to Ardith Hinton <=-

 DS>   It ended up being 4 trips to the Emergency Room within a week...3
 DS> before kidney stone surgery, and 1 a day after I was released, because
 DS> I had developed a fever. I'm back home, and am free of the stint and
 DS> catheter, which made things very uncomfortable, to say the least. I was
 DS> told to drink plain water, but that doesn't set well with me. However,
 DS> I do enjoy the "Crystal Clear" flavored water...and have
drank 2 quarts
 DS> of that today. We are under Heat Advisories for the forseeable future.
 DS> Thankfully, I don't have to be outside that often...considering Monday
 DS> is the first day of summer.

What a competition you have started! Two surgeries bracketed three trips to
emergency last week for me. We have a "Call a nurse" system in
this province in
an attempt to alleviate wait times in triage. I was looking for them to let me
stay home, where they insisted I go stand in an emergency ward for another five
hours. (Few seats are tolerable for my iatrogenic afflicted hip, and often the
foam used on a gurney do nothing for it either.)

After my second five-hour stint in so many days, I had to hobble outside to lie
flat on my back and prop my legs up on the "Pay To Park" vending machine.
Shoot... I dropped close to $100 in taxi fairs ("You're still under the effects
of the anaesthetic/You might be experiencing severe internal bleeding.") or
parking. (Six days post op, and I was feeling no more light-headed than usual.
;-) Good thing they *didn't* have a bed available for me that day, or parking
overnight would have hit my wallet pretty hard. Why can't they validate parking
for their repeat "customers"? 


... The road to hell is paved with legislation.
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