[Rhodes22-list] Hey Brad, did you get any snow?

[Steve Alm]

Whine away, Anne.  Like rummy said, it's the short days and lack of
sunshine.  We're here for ya.  :-)
Slim

On 1/16/03 7:50 PM, "matejcea@bellsouth.net" <matejcea@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Hey guys, 
> we got alot of snow for here. Started at 0630 at my place
> by the lake. Guess it came from the southwest, so the nursing
> home called me at 0600 (no snow at my house) to see whether
> I would OK an ambulance trip for my woman who meeded
> blood at the hospital.
> Now, I am acutely sensitive to the cost of this to medicare and
> nixed it with an authoritative nasty tone. After all, the ambulance is
> needed for emergency and not for routine procedures. Sure nuf,
> when I was on my way two minutes later, it was coming down like
> crazy and getting very hazardous....even for a tough MN gal like
> me! Boy, did I feel guilty, for this gal is 88 and her daughter who was
> driving was 72! OOPs! /But gee, the abuse of the system just gets
> my goat. Daughter made such a big deal that no one could take her on
> Friday that I personally drew the blood and took it out of my way by
> 40 miles last night so the type and crossmatch would be done by the
> time she got there today on the only day the dtr could transport her.
> Plus, the woman was short of breath because of her low hemoglobin, so
> it was urgent, but not emergent.
> It is a political every day thing I have to attend to to keep our national
> budget within reason. I deal with this junk every day!
> Sorry to whine on ys'all...but you were on the subject!
> Anne 
> 
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