Here's another thing or two wrong w/THE PLANET

Several weeks ago now, Himself slipped on the ice and boogered up his ankle. I wrote about it somewhere, when last week he finally drove the 70 miles in a snow storm to the VA emergency room to get it looked at. He was there from early a.m. until nearly 5 p.m. waiting for someone to tell him if the ankle was broken or needed casting, or whatever. He can barely see to drive after dark so he left the ER and came home. I was a nervous wreck waiting for him...whew. We figured the VA would call if there was a need for him to go back...



Finally today after numerous fruitless calls, he got ahold of someone who knew he'd gotten an xray. Because of confidentiality THAT person could tell him nothing about his ankle. He was told they had paged him at 2 p.m., when of course he was down in Radiology getting the x-ray! And that he had been paged again at 9 p.m.!!!!!!! Of course by then he was home safe n' sound.



The ankle is still bothering him but he can't just take off from work every day hoping to get treated at that zoo...it SEEMS to me though...that a THINKING clerk might have said to him, "you can make an appointment for a cast..." OR "You can get an ace bandage". As a former medical records person I know there are ways to give clues to anxious patients, without breaking any confidences....Jaysus...being an understanding human is NOT rocket science...



MEANWHILE back at the ranch, I must quack about people like my dear-pointy-headed-one...who do stupid things online...like sign up for the FREE credit report sites that are all over the web now....

THE REPORTS ARE NOT FREE!!!

Unless you read the fine print and make that call or whatever to cancel the charges you ARE signing up for....gawd...'nuff said.

A quick weather update...it was overcast and 50F an hour ago here (on the verandah)...the temp has dropped to 40F and there is horizontal slush pelting us....it looks and feels November right now. The gusts blew my flag off....sighhhh...it's beer:30 for sure.