h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

tomorrow i'll be moved to a nursing facility not far from this hospital to do some weeks of penance via iv antibiotics for osteomyelitis. i've been healing well so far, the original wound now just half the size it was.

so in a few weeks i'll be hauled back to the citadel of medicine for muscle graft surgery, and then brought back to the hospital i'm in just now.

why move me at all? why not just chill among the nurses i've got to know, eating the same food i've also got to know? por que? because the insurance companies dictate in advance, regardless of the acuteness or longevity of the problem, how long you may stay in hospital... before they stop paying for it.

my only fear right now is that the new place will have no wi-fi. if the silence stretches out for more than 2 days, fear the worst.

All the best to you, Lil. I hope you heal up well. It's easy for me to forget just how much your healthcare system can screw you around.

Hope you'll continue to get well in the other place.

*crosses fingers for healing and wireless*

Fingers crossed for wi-fi at the other place, Lil

Thanks for the update, Lil. Here's hoping for wifi.

I hope your healing continues and that you have wireless, it's too quiet here without you!

Thinking about you Lil - I really hope the next hospital treats you well and they have all the facilities you need, good food, cheerful rooms and nurses ( and doctors!)

I cross my fingers for the wifi too.

I'm also sorry to hear you've got to be treated for osteomyelitis. Good luck with the next round of antibiotics.

with the new hospital, Lil.

Here's hoping for wi-fi and a speedy recovery >hug>

and from me too.

All the best (and wifi, hopefully).

I hope you'll have wifi, and as swift a recovery as possible...it gets so quiet around here when you're gone!

here i am.

not much to say yet, mainly being interviewed by various agencies like finance, OT etc. then i need to train the kitchen. place is modern, clean and comfy. staff dressed to the nines.

drawbacks -- it's a long term care facility as well, so there are some mildly demented wheelchair drivers about. perky announcements on the public address system -- pizza popcorn and pepsi now available in the main lobby! pizza is just one dollah. sigh. i have a roommate who seems healthy but somewhat senile.

it's great to hear from you all!

Ahh, all the modern conveniences including wifi. Nothing but the best for our Lil.

Ah, the 'here I am' immediately made this song pop up in my mind:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_lMNufI3hA

(Scorpions: Send Me An Angel)

Yay, you have wifi!

*breathes a sigh of relief*

and you, Ti, just made me think of a different Scorpions song, Rock You Like a Hurricane:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxdmw4tJJ1Y

Glad *that* worked out.

i thought of simon and garfunkel, the only livin' boy in new york