[SI] Don't forget to send your Sports and Games shots for December 6th!
Bowser
shots...
Alan Browne
> Just a reminder that Sports and Games closes in a week, so send those
> shots...
I was wondering ...
Bowser
Tim Conway
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> Just a reminder that Sports and Games closes in a week, so send those
> shots...
Bowser,
I sent 2 photos last night (twice) and didn't receive a reply. Did you get
them?
Tim Conway
Bowser
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Russell D.
I sent in a couple a two hours ago and have not gotten a reply either.
Did you get them?
Russell
Robert Coe
: Just a reminder that Sports and Games closes in a week, so send those
: shots...
Can't do it this time. :^|
November was a wipeout. My wife spent three weeks in the hospital, and we had
to miss our annual Thanksgiving trip to our daughter's house in Philadelphia.
(Her husband's nephew is one of the best high school football players in
eastern Pennsylvania, and his game was going to be our only shot at meeting
this month's mandate.) We'll have to try again next month.
Bob
Alan Browne
> On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:07:51 -0500, Bowser<Ca...@Nikon.Panny> wrote:
> : Just a reminder that Sports and Games closes in a week, so send those
> : shots...
>
> Can't do it this time. :^|
>
> November was a wipeout. My wife spent three weeks in the hospital, and we had
I hope your wife is doing better.
Robert Coe
<alan....@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
Thanks, Alan. Yes, she is. We live in an area of superb medical facilities,
and I'm lucky enough to work for an employer that still provides the excellent
care that's becoming increasingly less common in the U.S. Martha would have
gotten out sooner; but she had to have intravenous antibiotics, and the
hospitals here are adamant that patients endure a 14-day course of such
treatment. That's supposed to ensure that harmful bacteria don't develop
immunity to the drugs.
I wish it were not so, but you Canadians have a health care system that only
the most fortunate Americans can match. Maybe Barack Obama will be able to
push through some improvements, but only the terminally optimistic are willing
to bet on that.
Bob
Alan Browne
There's truth and falsehood in that. Wait times for minor emergencies
can go 12 - 15 hours. My son broke his collarbone (tackled playing
football) a few years ago. He went through the system in less than 2
hours and was released. While he was in being x-rayed, I chatted with a
fellow in the waiting room who had sliced open his thumb. Heavily
bandaged. Had been waiting 10 hours to that point to see a doc. Had
only seen the admitting nurse to that point.
Why did my son go early? A collarbone fracture has a possibility of a
broken bone rupturing the artery that comes down out of the head
(jugular?) and can be fatal ... front of the line. Cut hand? Bah!
It'll wait.
(Maybe they should just hand out DIY sewing kits. New newsgroup anyone?).
By the way, there is no "Canadian" system. It is province by province
and care and capability varies by province. Hence a lot of neuro/cardio
procedures from NS, NB, NL and PEI are done in Montreal and Toronto.
Where the system here is more bulletproof is that you have coverage
regardless of medical history.
A recent weird case: a woman had an emergency at home in South-East
Quebec. A New York ambulance crew (through a border towns agreement)
comes to apply first response care and pick her up. But because of the
seriousness of the case, the US crew recommended a closer US hospital.
The US hospital kept her for a few days. Quebec paid the "Quebec
Standard" amount to her for the type of emergency and per diem (to pay
the US hospital) which of course was a fraction of the US cost. Her
Canadian travel insurance refused the difference since the original
"case" occurred in Canada.
(I think Quebec should pay since they don't subsidize ambulance crews
close enough to where she lives. Anyway, court case to follow).
The point is that while Quebec has a standard rate to compensate for out
of province care it is not a fraction of real care cost in Quebec and
even less so than the padded for double profit care in the US...
Alan Browne
> On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:25:45 -0500, Alan Browne
> <alan....@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
> : On 09-12-05 15:07 , Robert Coe wrote:
> :> On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:07:51 -0500, Bowser<Ca...@Nikon.Panny> wrote:
> :> : Just a reminder that Sports and Games closes in a week, so send those
> :> : shots...
> :>
> :> Can't do it this time. :^|
> :>
> :> November was a wipeout. My wife spent three weeks in the hospital, and we had
> :
> : I hope your wife is doing better.
>
> Thanks, Alan. Yes, she is. We live in an area of superb medical facilities,
> and I'm lucky enough to work for an employer that still provides the excellent
> care that's becoming increasingly less common in the U.S. Martha would have
> gotten out sooner; but she had to have intravenous antibiotics, and the
> hospitals here are adamant that patients endure a 14-day course of such
> treatment. That's supposed to ensure that harmful bacteria don't develop
> immunity to the drugs.
Another tidbit: Montreal hospitals have noticed a deep drop in
C.Dificile infections ever since the swine flu "pandemic". Urging
people to wash their hands more often has its benefits...