Tag: Hospitals
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My brain tumor and a lesson on what a great hospital system can mean
So I’ve been sick. Not just a little sick. I mean, tumor on the brain sick. It’s amounted to a crazy week for me, which started on Monday during a walk. I was having trouble walking in a straight line. I couldn’t compensate for my left leg so while climbing an embankment to get on…
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Our hospital system is great when it works
I recently spent two nights in the hospital. To say the least, these are rare events. My previous hospitalization was more than ten years earlier. I can expect more of these events as I age. Some like my neighbor Rod become something of a hospitalization champs. Even he can’t tell you how many times he’s…
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The seizure
Sorry Razor fans for being a bit remote this week. Life has taken me places I didn’t want to go, like Bay 18 at Fairfax Hospital’s emergency room and subsequently room T275 Bed 2. The only good part of this story is that it wasn’t me in that hospital bed. It was my wife Terri.…
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Mind games with myself
It was just over three weeks ago that I was hospitalized and here I was in a hospital again. The emergency room had changed. Last time it was Fair Oaks Hospital, this time it was the smaller E. R. at the Reston Hospital Center. At least this time I did not black out and break…
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Hospitalized
It was more than ironic that less than twelve hours after writing my last post on violence related to recently enacted health care legislation, I would be putting our health care system to the test. After posting Wednesday night I readied myself for bed. On my way to the bathroom, my right toe grazed the…
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In the ICU
It is not a trivial exercise to get into the Intensive Care Unit at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland. To begin with visiting hours are very restricted. Evening hours opened at 8 p.m. and ended at 10 p.m. I decided to leave at 7:15 p.m. and hoped for fair traffic. The traffic gods…
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