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Old Jan 25, 2008, 03:49 PM
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I'm glad you now have a support network. Hopefully things will start slowly working out now.

I know about hospital referral mixups. I had to go to the hospital (first time in my life) for a week when I had an infection they couldn't deal with effectively outpatient and the doctor's office said just go there they'd be waiting for me, etc. and I went and they'd never heard of me :-) My husband had dropped me off and I had nothing but my id and a pair of underwear I'd stuffed in my pocket, in case (don't ask me in case of what, I'm with Doh, "be prepared" :-) but they found the doctor's orders and all finally and then didn't have a room ready. Finally they found a room (meanwhile, I'm standing around and doing intake computer stuff in pain) and I went up and found it and it was empty but the bed wasn't made up. No one showed up to "welcome" me or anything, tell me what to do but finally I just got up on the bed to "wait" and sure enough, a nurse came in and asked me if anybody'd helped me. . . I felt like I was in a restaurant with a waitress asking, "Have you been helped yet?" LOL She quickly figured out the make-the-bed and got me organized and in it, it worked out fine. It was listed as a semi-private room but that was because it was across from the nurse's station and had an additional wash basin for doctors to quickly come in and wash their hands (very separate and out of sight of my own full bathroom). It was truly wonderful as I didn't feel lonely being able to hear the bustle going on out the door at the nurse's station and yet it was a very "private" room.

Hope you will keep us up to date on how your programs are going and what's happening with you?
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