Promo Post Tomorrow

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Yesterday I had a heck of a time working and couldn’t finish the chapters for Chapter House.
I was pretty mad at myself.

This morning, I woke up with a sore throat/fever/ general feeling like crud. Still working on chapters. Will do promo tomorrow.

I’m so sorry, both to chapter-house subscribers and my readers here. Sometimes the body has a say.

35 thoughts on “Promo Post Tomorrow”

  2. Too bad that you can’t get a “new and improved” body. [Crazy Grin]

    Take care Sarah. [Smile]

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        2. Perhaps she means more like in RAH’s Future History near the end? Although they do some Darned weird stuff with that (Lapis and Lorilei? Elizabeth “Slipstick” Libby?, Going back and scooping up Maureen???) so maybe not the best choice…

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            1. If they kept Libbys body they can go fish the Y off his XXY and create a viable male Slipstick Libby given the splicing that produced Laz and Lor.

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              1. Although Given the proclivities of the Long clan I don’t want to think about putting Andy and Elizabeth in the same room. There lies the potential for the ultimate in narcissism…

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  3. Didn’t you say in an earlier post this week that you and Dan both had medical appointments? There you go. The medical appointments made you sick. :-( Kidding. Kind of.

    Hubby went with son for son’s test procedure because someone visible had to be present to prove son did not drive himself there and wouldn’t be driving home. Few days later, hubby was sick. Tried to blame son as son was just getting over being sick when we got home. But it was 10 days later.

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    2. Part of the ongoing discussion about my adverse reaction to a pneumonia shot that the clinic never recorded giving me, the doc said “well, you probably got pneumonia here during your appointment”. Nice, comforting words. Arggh. I wish there was a viable alternative to that guy.

      I used to go to the very-low-cost clinic, but the gangbanger vibes were a bit overwhelming… There’s an FNP I trust, but the complex already tried (and failed, thank God) to shut him down. OTOH, he’s not that young, and the last time I saw him, it was still a one-man practice and limited as to what he can do. Any other alternatives are in other cities, 100-140 miles away. I already have to do a two-night trip for my retina specialist. (Local eye practices will do cataract work, but the fiddly stuff gets done in Medford.)

      The big medical complex in Flyover County seems to have a business model of “acquire competition or try to force them out”. There’s a few independent docs, but it’s a challenge to find them.

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      1. Oh it’s not just flyover country. The local Hospitals and clinics are eating each other like Kilkenny cats here in the Boston area and have been doing it since I started working and had the original Harvard Community Health Plan back in 1983. Lots of the little hospitals are gone, and many are trying to get out of certain high cost areas (Obstetrics and delivery is one very contentious one).

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        1. “There are only 5000 people in this entire 30 mile long valley, and the nearest hospital with a maternity unit is on the other side of either one of the mountain passes, both of which sometimes close for hours every winter. Why on earth would anyone think you need something more local?”

          Yup.

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          1. The one we’re seeing problems with is in Fitchburg. its a small “city” North of Worcester near the MA/NH border. It has about 40K population and has several nearby small cities (Gardiner, Fitchburg) that use the hospital too. Nearest hospitals are Worcester MA and Nashua NH each about 25 miles away. Worcester is much easier to reach via I-195, Nashua is ALL secondary roads and some of it is fairly hilly. I’ve done I-190 in a snowstorn NOT fun, I’ve also come down from Nashua to fitchburg (and thence to Worcester long ago). Would NOT want to do that in snow or heavy rain. I can see why our locals are peeved their maternity ward is getting the axe.

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            1. Used to live in Rindge, down in the SW corner. Back then, there was a hospital in Winchendon (Mass.), that was the closest. Now, looking at it, the only one open outside of “business hours” is up in Keene, 21 miles away.

              The drive to Keene in the middle of winter is no fun at all. No matter where you want to go, secondary roads are all that is in that region.

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              1. Indeed I know of Rindge, NH. I had a buddy/coworker who lived in Jaffrey and used to commute in his mid 80’s Firebird to Spitbrook Road in Nashua, NH, and he’d often curse the roads in winter. I’ve gone out to that part of MA a couple times as my Father-in-Law is buried in the military cemetery near Winchendon. I don’t know if Winchendon Hospital is still there, If its not then you’re either looking at Keene, Nashua, Worcester, the aforementioned Fitchburg or maybe Manchester NH or Hannover (Dartmouth). None is a good choice I think closest outside of Keene is probably an hour by ambulance.

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                1. What I find ironic is the inlaws moved from their retirement home (that they built) on the banks of the Little Dechutes, near La Pine Oregon (next to La Pine State Park) because it was so far (an hour by ambulance, after the delay for emergency crews to get to them because of both distance and the roads). Now there are staffed emergency crews in La Pine itself, as well as a major Urgent clinic in Bend itself. The roads in and out of the subdivision haven’t changed (ambulances are not speeding on those roads), but the nearest emergency location is closer.

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                2. Still have a hospital in Winchendon, but apparently “business hours” only. Keene is only about 20 miles – but that can be an hour when a good storm moves in.

                  At our age, it’s good (for medical needs) to be here in Tucson. About twenty minutes even in the worst traffic to the two hospitals that have been on the east side for decades – and one just opened last year that is less than ten minutes away. (A second Northwest Hospital – which amuses me, because I’m in the Southeast corner.)

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            2. It doesn’t help that that the hospital north of us requires traveling on a straight, two-lane highway to Bend. For various reasons, the crashes that occur on that road tend to be messy, with multiple vehicles involved and multiple ambulances needed. (It’s a straight road, and people get impatient. Bad weather gets it more interesting; some gaps in the Cascades make some sections worse, though the clear weather record is bad enough. I stay off it when possible; can do so most of the time.)

              Protip: Interstate driving behaviors don’t work well when you’re on a two lane highway. Yesterday’s crash had multiple vehicles, at least two ambulances and a life-flight helicopter to deal with the results.

              Curiously, the straight highway is more dangerous than the one going over the mountains. I think people actually understand that going down a 10 mile, 5% grade is tricky, unlike a dead-flat, pretty straight, but very busy highway.

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              1. Yeah there’s a reason the interstates are divided and try to avoid really long straight stretches. Flat and long can really drive speed up and then you play tag with highway hypnosis. We see that here on I-90 out past Springfield MA. Not pretty.

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                1. There is a reason that when we are crossing Idaho on the freeway (I-84/I-80/Id-126/22/20) hubby does not want me to drive. The freeway posted speed is 80 MPH (non-semi) Actual traffic speed is 90+ MPH. Even hubby keeps it to around 85 MPH (not-RV). I won’t drive over 75 MPH, even that has me white knuckle, but have adjusted.

                  Hey, it was double nickle when I learned to drive and for decades after, with tickets extremely likely at over 60 MPH. Especially on I-5 between Coburg and Pleasant Hill exit, less likely now, but traffic still slows because of, well traffic thickens (south of Cottage Grove, it really is not safe to drive over 70 MPH and sections over 65 MPH). Also, tickets still lot more likely on Beltline, if you can get 65+ MPH (the motorcycle pairs really like the Beltline, county or state, pick one, often both). Then there is Washington state, he he he he. Washington state has a roving unit. One can actually get multiple tickets if one thinks “well I’ve been caught, now the road is free and clear of a patrol car”. Nope. That is the point of the unit. Not only that the local news gleefully report when someone is stupid enough to not get the message to slow the heck down, usually two, but rare instances of three.

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              2. the straight highway is more dangerous than the one going over the mountains.
                …………..

                Not helped that those slight up and downs of the “straight highway” does affect visibility for the vertically challenged vehicles. That the highway has few passing lanes (been awhile since I’ve been on it, so could have changed) and really few places to “pull over” to let traffic by easy. Latter, especially for RV drivers (not enough room beyond the white line and those cinder sides are soft), a huge percentage of do not have the reaction time, and are driving rigs too big for them to handle (mostly both due to *age, but not always).

                (*) Witnessed this in the past with my grandparents. Witnessing this with a neighbor now. That is all we can do is watch the train wreck we see coming and hope it doesn’t happen.

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                1. I haven’t heard of any new passing lanes. There aren’t may opportunities for them where the highway is between the lake and hogbacks, but even in the flats, no new ones. (OTOH, I usually drive F-Falls to/from Chiloquin every 2-3 years.) General neglect of Eastside highways and condescending lectures about studded snow tires in (horrors!) ice and snow country is a way of life here. I think it’s the general attitude from TPTB about us deplorables east of the Cascades.

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