Super aggravating, Kat. I want to shake the admins of the hospitals you and ita have to use. Help shouldn't be so difficult, dammit!
Glad your spoons lasted, sarameg.
Connie, that's such good news.
I'd rather stay home and watch television. It's often funnier than killing stuff.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Beverly - Oct 03, 2011 4:17:30 pm PDT #29831 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Amy - Oct 03, 2011 4:20:33 pm PDT #29832 of 30001
Because books.
Kat, what's happened with the other surgeries? Do you usually know before this?
If I had no idea when a surgery was scheduled for on the following day, I would be spitting nails.
Kat - Oct 03, 2011 4:21:37 pm PDT #29833 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
So I called admissions but no one answered. So then I called the surgery waiting room and they transferred me to the PTU and then again to another PTU employee. Grace's surgery is at 7:30. She needs to be there at 5:30. Yay?
Beverly, we usually have good experiences and the docs we deal with are good. They have a huge throughput in terms of patients so sometimes, with surgeries, it's hard to get the schedule info. It causes queasiness each time I don't hear back. But I've learned the workaround now.
Kat - Oct 03, 2011 4:22:07 pm PDT #29834 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Amy, yeah. Usually I call and leave a message at 2:00 and I hear back around or before 5:00. So they are especially late today.
Kat - Oct 03, 2011 4:23:34 pm PDT #29835 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I will also say I would HATE the job of scheduler for the OR. It would be horrible and terrifying and just generally no good. How you balance the scheduled surgeries with the emergencies must be a goddamned nightmare. So good on the people who do it, because I couldn't even imagine.
Did anyone hear the NPR story about hospitals having to ration meds due to the large number of med shortages?
Amy - Oct 03, 2011 4:28:28 pm PDT #29836 of 30001
Because books.
Did anyone hear the NPR story about hospitals having to ration meds due to the large number of med shortages?
My mom had a hard time getting her pain meds for months, because the manufacturer was making less, due to ... some federal regulation or something? The pharmacist, who's known her forever, was setting some aside every month to make sure she had them for Mom's refills.
Kat - Oct 03, 2011 4:29:40 pm PDT #29837 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
This is not surprising. It's just sort of depressing. Our health care system is so fucking broken. Rationing happens all the time already but fucking, cripplingly expensive; give me socialized medicine!
dcp - Oct 03, 2011 4:31:09 pm PDT #29838 of 30001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
tommyrot wins at weekend.
Mine was a mix of good and bad.
The good: Arranged a three day weekend to get away, visit the old home town, and see an airshow.
The bad: Fender-bender late Saturday afternoon. Left rear light cluster wiped out. Some of the leftrear quarter panel and bumper crumpled.
The good: No one was hurt. The other party was at fault.
The bad: Had to cut short the vacation.
The good: The car is still drivable, and got me home safely on Sunday. I still had Monday off from work, making it easy to get the repairs process started, and get a rental car.
The bad: At least one week, possibly two weeks, to get my car back.
The good: It was an excellent airshow. I got to see and do most of what I had planned for the trip, including my second-favorite barbeque.
And no one was hurt.
Liese S. - Oct 03, 2011 4:33:56 pm PDT #29839 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yikes, dcp! Glad no one was hurt, but yikes!
Kat - Oct 03, 2011 4:43:46 pm PDT #29840 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
glad you're okay, dcp. Fender benders suck.