Subj : Resend aunt was: Mis To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Thu Jun 18 2020 12:34:00 Hi Nancy! 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! NB> Of course, all of it came down in the one message packet that I NB> got from Tiny's.... ;) Yes, and that could have been larger: left Part III overnight here. 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. NB> Yup, probably just because that's where it was, no need to move NB> it... :) And probably more convenient for the patient than having NB> to walk long halls of the hospital to get to it... :) Probably so. LIS was in a small outbuilding with its own parking lot (IIRC trees all around), so no mega-parking lot hassles, no "go up to the 6th Floor"..... 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. NB> That's a good thing... :) Yes. Glad to have hospitals handy but prefer not to make use of them. 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. NB> And they could decide whether to keep you or to send you on to NB> more specialised care... :) Right. Initially thinking being sent on means something major like cardiac, though that particular hospital has the cardiac center. The 'send on' could be for a lesser issue: here kidney stones and the like are usually done at an independent complex. 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. NB> So, the installer got to the right place...? And you now have NB> fiber optics rather than DSL....? The installer called before arrival; I did tell him not to go to the half street which he thanked me for that heads-up and sort of indicated it wasn't on his notes. The install went fine, no fiber optic service yet as the light level from the main feed isn't sufficient -- he said '40' and I think he said should be at 90 or greater. He did have a second tech check and he put in a work order. I haven't seen anyone around (though the problem could be at some far end) nor seen anything in my account for work to be done. Actually I didn't see anything for the installation so that kind of work might not be on my level. Did do an inquiry last night to try to find out what's going on and 'shake the tree' a little. Too early to have a response. I'm also going to do a little checking here. Found some information sheets and manuals. Something's not quite 'clicking': before leaving the tech said there was a red light on the and I went downstairs after he left but didn't see one; two are green. Power booted the device last night - one did turn red for a short while, then green. The main thing not clicking is the data port LED is off -- seems like it should be on as the Ethernet is plugged in and connected to my system, though the manual sort of indicated if no data was flowing through the device (so the insufficent signal level thing).... Going to check later my Ethernet cable to make sure it works ==> plug a laptop in. Would presume he checked that but this way I'll know for certain. 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!! NB> Or a good gazetteer, to find all those varied town names.... ;) Or my favourite: throw darts at the wall map! 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! NB> I'm just smiling in recognition... ;) Just think... all this NB> covid nonsense is training you to be able to use your cellphone NB> for calls.. ;) Horray!! Plus I half-learned how to edit the Phone Book (in the cell phone) so when they called the number would come up identified as the clinic and not "Unknown Name" ==> able to add several numbers under one heading, but then found another number they had used and couldn't figure out how to add to the original listing; cheated: made a second header with the two numbers I found. Now "Clinic" and "Clinic 1". Good enough for now! ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... I too am extremely humble and proud of it :) --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .