Subject: Resend Re: aunt was: Miss.RvrDamBre
Hi Nancy!
Took a break and uploaded the replies to you and Daryl thus far: don't
want to over-extend the off-line mail reader! Probabyl well within the limitations but don't want to risk!
OTOH accidents and illnesses don't wait for one to get somewhere
convenient. And of course all hospitals are not equipped to handle
everything so transfer to a higher level one may be necessary.
Yup, AIS2, one might be nowhere close to home and have an emergency...
There's a little of transferring between hospitals here, but in most
cases, any of the local ones are pretty high level... One exception is
that the hospital our PCP office is part of, Unity, isn't equipped
for the higher level heart surgeries, so Richard was transfered from
there to RGH, in the same "network", for his bypass.... ;)
With the cost of specialized equipment and I'd presume also some
staffing it makes more sense to have one hospital in system group be
the go-to site for cardiac instances, another cancer, another something else. (This example must be a huge place!!)
Or at least the specializations shared between two or three
hospitals, so that only one has to do the high-level investment
in each case... Yes, that does make sense...
Right. Back when I needed the DEXA scanning for bone density checkups
they would send me to a small building on the edge of one of the
hospital campuses. Doubt if due to radiation, more the machine was
originally in the building and no need to move it, or have additional.
As I said some time back locally Genesis West is the oncology center
and some other speciality I'm not recalling right now. They don't do general emergency walk-ins, instead sending them to Genesis East. (The West campus was the one where they put back together this Humpty Dumpty.)
So maybe West also handles orthopedics...?
I'll admit I don't know! The good news is no one I know has had to go
to a hospital much less stay at one since then.
...Egh: figure it out some other time. Currently a lot of COVID-19
concerns popping up, get too-specific like into the lab facilities,
don't want to put in a false wait time request.... The 'good news' is
the Genesis East facility, the known-general site, is the one closest to
the house so if something where self-transport would occur would go
there automatically.
Yes, sometimes just easier to go with the flow. Personally I don't
think I would mind going to all telephone calls require the 1 and area
code, or maybe just the area code: isn't like with a rotary phone
where it would take a whole extra three seconds to dial those numbers!
Sure, would take a while to get used to dialing 'everything' -
probably as long as it took to go from five digit to seven digit
dialing (growing up in NH was 8-2441 to 888-2441).
Not so much of a problem once you've entered it into your cell phone's
Contacts or into your phone's directory... just "flip" to it and
push... but if you need to do a lot of calls not already entered, it
might not be so simple.... ;)
<chuckle> I forgot about that convenience bacause I don't use my
phone all that much. Dial home, easier to enter the seven digits. I
did put entries in the Address Book and have used it.
My cell phone has the capability of I think 9 speed dial numbers
(1-9), where 1 is hard-wired to dial Voicemail... I set up Home
as Speed Dial 2... all I have to do is press and hold the 2, and
voila', it's dialing the number... ;) Haven't set up any other
ones yet, though... ;)
Thank you: reminded me I have an installer coming Monday morning and I
want to make sure the come to the correct street: there's a short half-
street and it has the same address number as I do.
"Interestingly" -- for us here in the Quad Cities anyway! -- we only
need to dial the seven digit number for most calls to the other side
of the River. If I want to dial from a 563 area code number here in
Iowa to a 309 number in Illinois just the seven digits. (!) Is
restricted to certain exchanges: I can dial below-the-hill Hampton, IL
with seven digits but above-the-hill need eleven.
That sounds like there's one telephone system covering both sides of
the river in that area... otherwise there could have been duplication
of the seven digit numbers, for which the area code would have been
needed to differentiate.... :)
Nope: Iowa side is CenturyLink and Illinois side is Illinois Bell.
In that case, I'd guess that they've made some sort of arrangement
between them for which numbers are available where....
Probably; used to be got enough wrong numbers! (Now it's spam.)
Yup... intentional "wrong" numbers.... <G>
Lately we've been getting a bunch of spam calls from all over the
country: Erie, PA, Denver, IA (!), Dillon, SC. etc., etc., all with the
same recorded message. He must have some great frequent-flyer miles!! <g>
"Fun part" is they use two different wiring systems! The phone port
wiring is the same (red green yellow black) but the distribution trunks
are different. Years ago (early 90's?) they added a new trunk to
alleviate the overload; initially created even more busy signals! They
finally found the colour coding was different, so a "TXC" signal on
one system was blue and on another was orange. Technician instead
connected the CenturyLink blue to Illinois Bell blue and -- oops!
(The examples of TXC, blue, and orange are made up but the connecting
of the same colour causing the problem was true.)
Oops, indeed... ;) Good it was found, though.... :)
They more or less had to because it made the improvement so much
worse. It wasn't just more busy signals but almost constant busy
signals when calling from one side to the other.
So a clear malfunction, and necessary to track down and fix....
:)
Yes: it was 'kind of funny' as the intended improvement made things much
worse than before.
I'm 'lazy' and the less stuff I have to bring with me the better, so
the phone with camera with GPS with Internet, etc., etc. is easier for
me. Again boils down to personal preferences.
Yup, you've been converted to smartphones... ;)
Now if I can figure out how to answer the phone part!
Can't help you there... from what I've seen there's all sorts of
different permutations of what answers the phone... <G>
Brings a new version of Phone Tag: you call me, it goes to voice mail,
or I finally get in to where I see you called. I call you back, you struggle to answer your phone in time....
That's mostly not even funny.... ;) My cell phone, not being
smart, is a lot simpler to answer.... only drawback for me is
when I've silenced it for a meeting, and forgot to turn it back
to sound... or if I'm somewhere noisy and don't hear it ring....
LISB4 I'm just not all that accustomed to answering that skinny little
black thing; my own fault, but with the land line..... What I have been
doing is when someplace where check in and they call when ready one the
cell phone is to have my phone in my hand while waiting, instead of in
the pouch: that way more prepared to answer, don't waste a second or two getting it out of the pouch and then figuring out is it right side up or
up side down - it's the correct way up in my hand, slide the icon to answer.... I know: people are chuckling reading that clutziness!
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