Subj : Re: Resend aunt was: Mis To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Wed Jun 17 2020 18:56:12 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 12-Jun-2020 12:14 <=- BM> Took a break and uploaded the replies to you and Daryl thus far: don't BM> want to over-extend the off-line mail reader! Probably well within BM> the limitations but don't want to risk! Of course, all of it came down in the one message packet that I got from Tiny's.... ;) BM>>> OTOH accidents and illnesses don't wait for one to get somewhere BM>>> convenient. And of course all hospitals are not equipped to handle BM>>> everything so transfer to a higher level one may be necessary. NB>>> Yup, AIS2, one might be nowhere close to home and have an emergency... NB>>> There's a little of transferring between hospitals here, but in most NB>>> cases, any of the local ones are pretty high level... One exception is NB>>> that the hospital our PCP office is part of, Unity, isn't equipped NB>>> for the higher level heart surgeries, so Richard was transfered from NB>>> there to RGH, in the same "network", for his bypass.... ;) BM>> With the cost of specialized equipment and I'd presume also some BM>> staffing it makes more sense to have one hospital in system group be BM>> the go-to site for cardiac instances, another cancer, another something BM>> else. (This example must be a huge place!!) NB>> Or at least the specializations shared between two or three hospitals, NB>> so that only one has to do the high-level investment in each case... NB>> Yes, that does make sense... BM> Right. Back when I needed the DEXA scanning for bone density checkups BM> they would send me to a small building on the edge of one of the BM> hospital campuses. Doubt if due to radiation, more the machine was BM> originally in the building and no need to move it, or have additional. Yup, probably just because that's where it was, no need to move it... :) And probably more convenient for the patient than having to walk long halls of the hospital to get to it... :) BM>> As I said some time back locally Genesis West is the oncology center BM>> and some other speciality I'm not recalling right now. They don't do BM>> general emergency walk-ins, instead sending them to Genesis East. BM>> (The West campus was the one where they put back together this Humpty BM>> Dumpty.) NB>> So maybe West also handles orthopedics...? BM> I'll admit I don't know! The good news is no one I know has had to go BM> to a hospital much less stay at one since then. That's a good thing... :) BM> ...Egh: figure it out some other time. Currently a lot of COVID-19 BM> concerns popping up, get too-specific like into the lab facilities, BM> don't want to put in a false wait time request.... The 'good news' is BM> the Genesis East facility, the known-general site, is the one closest BM> to the house so if something where self-transport would occur would go BM> there automatically. And they could decide whether to keep you or to send you on to more specialised care... :) NB>>> Not so much of a problem once you've entered it into your cell phone's NB>>> Contacts or into your phone's directory... just "flip" to it and NB>>> push... but if you need to do a lot of calls not already entered, it NB>>> might not be so simple.... ;) BM>> I forgot about that convenience because I don't use my BM>> phone all that much. Dial home, easier to enter the seven digits. I BM>> did put entries in the Address Book and have used it. NB>> My cell phone has the capability of I think 9 speed dial numbers (1-9), NB>> where 1 is hard-wired to dial Voicemail... I set up Home as Speed Dial NB>> 2... all I have to do is press and hold the 2, and voila', it's dialing NB>> the number... ;) Haven't set up any other ones yet, though... ;) BM> Thank you: reminded me I have an installer coming Monday morning and I BM> want to make sure the come to the correct street: there's a short BM> half-street and it has the same address number as I do. So, the installer got to the right place...? And you now have fiber optics rather than DSL....? BM>> Probably; used to be got enough wrong numbers! (Now it's spam.) NB>> Yup... intentional "wrong" numbers.... BM> Lately we've been getting a bunch of spam calls from all over the BM> country: Erie, PA, Denver, IA (!), Dillon, SC. etc., etc., all with BM> the same recorded message. He must have some great frequent-flyer BM> miles!! Or a good gazetteer, to find all those varied town names.... ;) BM>>> "Fun part" is they use two different wiring systems! The phone port BM>>> wiring is the same (red green yellow black) but the distribution trunks BM>>> are different. Years ago (early 90's?) they added a new trunk to BM>>> alleviate the overload; initially created even more busy signals! BM>>> They finally found the colour coding was different, so a "TXC" signal BM>>> on one system was blue and on another was orange. Technician instead BM>>> connected the CenturyLink blue to Illinois Bell blue and -- oops! BM>>> (The examples of TXC, blue, and orange are made up but the connecting BM>>> of the same colour causing the problem was true.) NB>>> Oops, indeed... ;) Good it was found, though.... :) BM>> They more or less had to because it made the improvement so much BM>> worse. It wasn't just more busy signals but almost constant busy BM>> signals when calling from one side to the other. NB>> So a clear malfunction, and necessary to track down and fix.... :) BM> Yes: it was 'kind of funny' as the intended improvement made things BM> much worse than before. Stuff happens.... ;) BM>> Brings a new version of Phone Tag: you call me, it goes to voice mail, BM>> or I finally get in to where I see you called. I call you back, you BM>> struggle to answer your phone in time.... NB>> That's mostly not even funny.... ;) My cell phone, not being smart, NB>> is a lot simpler to answer.... only drawback for me is when I've NB>> silenced it for a meeting, and forgot to turn it back to sound... or NB>> if I'm somewhere noisy and don't hear it ring.... BM> LISB4 I'm just not all that accustomed to answering that skinny little BM> black thing; my own fault, but with the land line..... What I have BM> been doing is when someplace where check in and they call when ready BM> on the cell phone is to have my phone in my hand while waiting, BM> instead of in the pouch: that way more prepared to answer, don't waste BM> a second or two getting it out of the pouch and then figuring out is it BM> right side up or up side down - it's the correct way up in my hand, BM> slide the icon to answer.... I know: people are chuckling reading that BM> clutziness! I'm just smiling in recognition... ;) Just think... all this covid nonsense is training you to be able to use your cellphone for calls.. ;) ttyl neb .... 2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .