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Good luck, Edith, keep your spirits up if you can. I recently spent one night in hospital & the woman next to me wet the bed SIX times, while another patient kept shoutung "help" till someone threatened to thump her (she was only bored). Quoting Edith Love <[log in to unmask]>: > I'VE JUST SPENT AN HOUR TRYING TO ENTER SALUTATIONS. YOU ARE ALL GOOD > SPORTS IN YOUR EFFORTS TO DECIPHER THIS NEW > FANGLED METHOD I'M ATTEMPTING TO USE. > > MY MEDICAL ORIGINATES IN A UNIVERSITY CLINIC WHICH IS DOWNTOWN. OTHER > HOSPITALS ARE CLOSER TO HOME. BECAUSE I THOUGHT SO MUCH OF MY INTERNIST, I > > TOOK THE MORE EXPENSIVE ROUTE. FUNNY THING, FROM ARRIVAL THR > OUGH SURGERY EVEN THOUGH HE HAD ROUNDS HE NEVER APPEARED . > ROB, MY DAUGHTER AND CAREGIVER, WAS THERE EVERY MORNING AT 5:30. SHE > EXHAUSTED HERSELF > > MY NEXT JOY RIDE WAS TO THE REHAB CENTER. I CALL IT THE FUNNY FARM. > EVEERYTIME THEY NEEDED A ROOM, I WAS MOVED. FIRST TO SIT ALL NIGHT WITH A > WOMAN WHOSE FAMILY DROPPED HER THERE 2 YEARS BEFORE. NO WAY DID SHE > COOPERATE . THE SECOND WAS TO DOUBLE UP WITH SOMEONE WHO WAS TO BE > DISCHARGED AS SOON AS SHE COULD GET A RIDE HOME. THE THIRD WAS TO MAKE ROOM > > FOR SOMEPME WHO HAD CANCER. AT THE END CAME A WOMAN AND HEE HUSBAND WHO > WERE HELD IN HIGH SUSPICIAN. THERE WAS NO INSURANCE INVOLVED. THERE WAS A > STORY OF THEIR ABILITY TO BE IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME. WHEN MY > CLOTHES BEGAN TO DISAPPEAR ( SHE COULD HAVE HAD SOME OF THEM HAD SHE > ASKED). THEY WOULD APPEAR ON THE CHAIR NEXT TO MY BED AT BEDTIME. BY THE > TIME I LEFT SHE SHARED WHAT I DID HAVE. > > THIS ABOOOUT DOES IT FOR TONIGHT. 5 WILL > CONTINUE AS SOON AS I CAN SEE AND GROPE LESS. > > E > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://www.ukonline.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn