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Magic Mood Jeep© wrote: Same thing happened to my mother, but on a human scale. My father was being treated as an out-patient at a VA (Veteran's Administration) Hospital for heart ailments - to put it bluntly, he had a couple of bad valves, and his heart was not pumping blood properly. In 1988 they were going to do valve replacement surgery, but while staying in the hospital for bloodtests & such before the surgery, his kidneys started failing. They could not do kidney transplant because of the weakened condition of his heart, and couldn't do the heart surgery because of the major risk of infection (rejecting the transplants) with his kidneys shutting down. They had him on dialysis to try & give his kidneys a rest, and maybe they would start back up. This continued for a couple of weeks. The VA Hospital is about 1.5-2 hour drive from our home, so us kids didn't go see him that often, and when Mom went, she usually spent a night or two in a 'courtesy' bed they would set up for her. One morning, after about a few weeks of this going on, Mom got a call at home - dad had passed away during the night, in his sleep - all efforts at resuscitation failed. Not even six months later, Mom gets a phone call from the EXACT same VA Hospital, the VERY same department/wing where he was when he passed on, to remind my father to set up his bi-annual heart checkup. Mom let them have a piece of her mind (it wasn't the pretty piece either) TWO YEARS after my Mom died, my sister-in-law (who had handled her finanacial affairs, since she lived in the same city and I didn't) started receiving increasingly rude "past due" notices addressed to Mom from an HMO (who had only gotten into the act because the senior facility where Mom lived hadn't bothered to send her to her own doctor). Being a conscientious person, Charleene kept phoning and writing them, with no result except more notices. She finally took my advice, and the next time one arrived simply marked the envelope "Deceased" (it was addressed to my mother, after all, not to her) and "return to sender". After that she never heard another word. (But imagine waiting until two years after the patient's death to start dunning them!) |
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Magic Mood Jeep© wrote: Same thing happened to my mother, but on a human scale. My father was being treated as an out-patient at a VA (Veteran's Administration) Hospital for heart ailments - to put it bluntly, he had a couple of bad valves, and his heart was not pumping blood properly. In 1988 they were going to do valve replacement surgery, but while staying in the hospital for bloodtests & such before the surgery, his kidneys started failing. They could not do kidney transplant because of the weakened condition of his heart, and couldn't do the heart surgery because of the major risk of infection (rejecting the transplants) with his kidneys shutting down. They had him on dialysis to try & give his kidneys a rest, and maybe they would start back up. This continued for a couple of weeks. The VA Hospital is about 1.5-2 hour drive from our home, so us kids didn't go see him that often, and when Mom went, she usually spent a night or two in a 'courtesy' bed they would set up for her. One morning, after about a few weeks of this going on, Mom got a call at home - dad had passed away during the night, in his sleep - all efforts at resuscitation failed. Not even six months later, Mom gets a phone call from the EXACT same VA Hospital, the VERY same department/wing where he was when he passed on, to remind my father to set up his bi-annual heart checkup. Mom let them have a piece of her mind (it wasn't the pretty piece either) TWO YEARS after my Mom died, my sister-in-law (who had handled her finanacial affairs, since she lived in the same city and I didn't) started receiving increasingly rude "past due" notices addressed to Mom from an HMO (who had only gotten into the act because the senior facility where Mom lived hadn't bothered to send her to her own doctor). Being a conscientious person, Charleene kept phoning and writing them, with no result except more notices. She finally took my advice, and the next time one arrived simply marked the envelope "Deceased" (it was addressed to my mother, after all, not to her) and "return to sender". After that she never heard another word. (But imagine waiting until two years after the patient's death to start dunning them!) |
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Magic Mood Jeep© wrote: Same thing happened to my mother, but on a human scale. My father was being treated as an out-patient at a VA (Veteran's Administration) Hospital for heart ailments - to put it bluntly, he had a couple of bad valves, and his heart was not pumping blood properly. In 1988 they were going to do valve replacement surgery, but while staying in the hospital for bloodtests & such before the surgery, his kidneys started failing. They could not do kidney transplant because of the weakened condition of his heart, and couldn't do the heart surgery because of the major risk of infection (rejecting the transplants) with his kidneys shutting down. They had him on dialysis to try & give his kidneys a rest, and maybe they would start back up. This continued for a couple of weeks. The VA Hospital is about 1.5-2 hour drive from our home, so us kids didn't go see him that often, and when Mom went, she usually spent a night or two in a 'courtesy' bed they would set up for her. One morning, after about a few weeks of this going on, Mom got a call at home - dad had passed away during the night, in his sleep - all efforts at resuscitation failed. Not even six months later, Mom gets a phone call from the EXACT same VA Hospital, the VERY same department/wing where he was when he passed on, to remind my father to set up his bi-annual heart checkup. Mom let them have a piece of her mind (it wasn't the pretty piece either) TWO YEARS after my Mom died, my sister-in-law (who had handled her finanacial affairs, since she lived in the same city and I didn't) started receiving increasingly rude "past due" notices addressed to Mom from an HMO (who had only gotten into the act because the senior facility where Mom lived hadn't bothered to send her to her own doctor). Being a conscientious person, Charleene kept phoning and writing them, with no result except more notices. She finally took my advice, and the next time one arrived simply marked the envelope "Deceased" (it was addressed to my mother, after all, not to her) and "return to sender". After that she never heard another word. (But imagine waiting until two years after the patient's death to start dunning them!) |
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"jmcquown" wrote in message
... It's a RANT. Pardon me if I've told this before, but I got [snip] unless I get another stupid correspondence from them, I won't act on And there is some good reason to keep on trusting your beloved pets to this place which has demonstrated both stupidity and ignorance? -- The One-and-only Holy Mosesâ„¢ |
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"jmcquown" wrote in message
... It's a RANT. Pardon me if I've told this before, but I got [snip] unless I get another stupid correspondence from them, I won't act on And there is some good reason to keep on trusting your beloved pets to this place which has demonstrated both stupidity and ignorance? -- The One-and-only Holy Mosesâ„¢ |
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"jmcquown" wrote in message
... It's a RANT. Pardon me if I've told this before, but I got [snip] unless I get another stupid correspondence from them, I won't act on And there is some good reason to keep on trusting your beloved pets to this place which has demonstrated both stupidity and ignorance? -- The One-and-only Holy Mosesâ„¢ |
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"Magic Mood Jeep©" wrote in message
news:EV1zc.27313$eu.15280@attbi_s02... Not even six months later, Mom gets a phone call from the EXACT same VA Hospital, the VERY same department/wing where he was when he passed on, to remind my father to set up his bi-annual heart checkup. Most of the "reminder calls" I get from the VAMCs are computer-originated and use computer-generated synthetic voices. Perhaps that's what happened. -- The One-and-only Holy Mosesâ„¢ |
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"Magic Mood Jeep©" wrote in message
news:EV1zc.27313$eu.15280@attbi_s02... Not even six months later, Mom gets a phone call from the EXACT same VA Hospital, the VERY same department/wing where he was when he passed on, to remind my father to set up his bi-annual heart checkup. Most of the "reminder calls" I get from the VAMCs are computer-originated and use computer-generated synthetic voices. Perhaps that's what happened. -- The One-and-only Holy Mosesâ„¢ |
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"Magic Mood Jeep©" wrote in message
news:EV1zc.27313$eu.15280@attbi_s02... Not even six months later, Mom gets a phone call from the EXACT same VA Hospital, the VERY same department/wing where he was when he passed on, to remind my father to set up his bi-annual heart checkup. Most of the "reminder calls" I get from the VAMCs are computer-originated and use computer-generated synthetic voices. Perhaps that's what happened. -- The One-and-only Holy Mosesâ„¢ |
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Duke of URL wrote:
"jmcquown" wrote in message ... It's a RANT. Pardon me if I've told this before, but I got [snip] unless I get another stupid correspondence from them, I won't act on And there is some good reason to keep on trusting your beloved pets to this place which has demonstrated both stupidity and ignorance? Oh, I don't take my pets there. I haven't been there since that day in November, 1999. That's why I don't understand why, after all this time, I suddenly got this letter from them. Jill |
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