Nancy's Ramblings

Our health care system is fine for the rest of us poor suckers, but a major Canadian politician is going to the US for heart surgery. I wonder who is paying for it?

I can understand if the specific surgery is not available in his home province, but why choose the US over another province within Canada?

http://news.sympatico.ctv.ca/abc/home/contentposting.aspx?isfa=1&feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V3&showbyline=True&date=true&newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20100201%2fwilliams_hospital_100201

Yup! Making a few phone calls moved up my ultrasound from October 11 to September 17. Considering I am in pretty much constant pain from the gall bladder, those 24 days might make a very large difference. All it took was finding an ultrasound clinic that had a cancelation. Yippee! One step closer to pain eradication.

I had a nice dinner at a friend's apartment last night and was ready to crawl into bed to rest up for more hard labour at work. That's when pain hit me and hit me hard. I tried to walk it off; but finally got hubby to take me to the hospital about 3:30am. They took me in immediately. I had an apparent gall bladder attack. I don't ever want another one. They gave me some shots and Gravol before releasing me  at 7:30am. I spent the whole day in bed. Hubby went off to do the work. I am so thankful to have him. Bad gall bladder!

I went to my doctor today and told him I have a sore shoulder. He asked how long I'd had the shoulder. I told him 44 years, give or take. He said it was obviously not a serious problem if I had lived with it for that long.
I had to explain that I had the "sore" shoulder for only a month, but had the shoulder itself since some time before birth. Finally, he understood and called me a "shit disturber". Anyway, the shoulder just has some inflammation. Rest, ice and ibuprophen is all I need.

I think I brought a little levity into my doctor's life because he was more cheerful when he left the room than when he came in.