On Friday, April 30, 2021 at 1:50:30 PM UTC-4, Graham wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 13:28:46 -0400, Dave Smith wrote:
>
> > On 2021-04-30 12:19 p.m., Sheldon Martin wrote:
> >
> >> Being in rehab I missed my second Phizer vaccine appointment, however
> >> fortunately the rehab arranged for my second vaccine at the rehab, a
> >> Walgreen tech arrived to give me the shot. I experienced no side
> >> effects. Walgreens gave me a card for each shot.
> >> This is the Rehab Center:
> >> https://greenemeadows.com/
> >
> >
> > Good to hear you got your second shot.
> >
> >
> >> Not a bad facility, I received good care... just can't recommend the
> >> food, most was inedible. I didn't have much appetite anyway so only
> >> ate about half the items they served... the coffee was disgusting,
> >> weak and arrived cold. They served a lot of turkey patties, not
> >> something I would eat. I pretty much lived on French toast and cole
> >> slaw (not bad). The beverage with each meal was Kool Aid. Veggies
> >> were canned; green beans or niblets. I was able to ask for cottage
> >> cheese with a side of canned fruit (pineapple chunks and manderin
> >> oranges. We were weighed every day, I dropped ten pounds there.
> >
> > I had pretty bad food when I was in the hospital last August, and I
> > missed a lot of meals. The first day I arrived there around 4 pm was
> > checked out in the ER and was admitted, but no bed available in cardiac
> > ward so I stayed in the ER. Being admitted so late, I missed supper.
> > Due to a procedure they were going to do I missed breakfast and lunch.
> > They moved me up to cardiac ICU around 4 pm and when dinners came there
> > was none for me. The nurse found me some sandwiches.
> >
> > Meals were typically a tiny portion of meat and a pile of vegetables.
> > One day it was broccoli and cauliflower and another day it was a big
> > pile of corn. Breakfast was a small scoop of dry industrial scrambled
> > eggs and one piece of dry, cold toast. They would give me a cup of
> > juice and a cup of tepid water with a teabag or instant coffee. The
> > water was so far from hot that you could leave the bag in it for 5
> > minutes and it barely changed the colour of the water.
> >
> > I missed a few more meals because they were hoping to something that
> > involved knocking me out. It got to the point that I didn't mind
> > missing meals because they were so small and so horrible I was not
> > missing much. Between the lack of food, the missed meals and being
> > pumped full od diuretics, I dropped more than 20 pounds over the 6 days
> > I was there.
> >
> >> My main complaint was that it was very noisy, everyone had their TV on
> >> different stations and very loud... I kept my door closed.
> >
> > My room was pretty quiet. I had a nice big room to myself. It was
> > strange. I had had a Covid test three days before I went to the hospital
> > and the day before I went i got the results... negative. They still put
> > me into isolation because I had had symptoms that led to me getting the
> > test.
> >
> > Noise was more of a problem when I had been in ICU after bypass surgery.
> > The nurses used to hang out in the hall in front of my room at shift
> > change. The food was much better there but the place was dismal and in
> > spite of being heavily medicated I hardly slept a wink in 11 days.
> 40+ years ago I had a long stay and found the food to be excellent. 20
> years later, for another but shorter stay, there had been a marked
> deterioration in quality. Our Con govt had got rid of the in-house cooks
> and contracted out to CANA, the airline food makers.
Tower: "Eastern 702, cleared for takeoff, contact Departure on frequency 124.7"
Eastern 702: "Tower, Eastern 702 switching to Departure. By the way, after we lifted off we saw some kind of dead animal on the far end of the runway."
Tower: "Continental 635, cleared for takeoff behind Eastern 702, contact Departure on frequency 124.7. Did you copy that report from Eastern 702?"
BR Continental 635: "Continental 635, cleared for takeoff, roger; and yes, we copied Eastern... we've already notified our caterers."
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Cindy Hamilton