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The Hospital, the ER, the ER, and the Hospital

December 9, 2015

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Imagine a scenario in which you enter the hospital for routine, outpatient hernia surgery.  You know you are brewing a cold (or worse), but you don’t want to have to reschedule the surgery, so you don’t tell your doctor you are getting sick.  Your surgery is performed, and you go home. Two days later, you […]

Video Chat Me Up

December 28, 2011

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An astute fan of mine, sometimes called Sande, other times called my son-in-law’s dad, alerted me to a piece in the NY Times about how family traditions have gone the way of everything else: into some virtual alternate universe world in which things just magically appear that look real but are probably figments of my […]

Wretched Technology Update

September 13, 2010

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Well, here we are, happily sailing through the 21st century and I am still doing battle with post-Industrial Revolution technology.  I wrote a post about this in reference to my husband going out of town and leaving me at the mercy of three remotes and other assorted bits and pieces of technology, all waiting for […]