[graciegirl]

This is the high season. They triage and take life threatening emergencies first. That happens in all emergency rooms. I am glad it was something that was treatable and that he had a friend who stood by him for all those long hours.


I have had occasion to go to several different hospitals with someone for an emergency similar to your friends over my life. The wait is always long and they treat breathing emergencies and heart emergencies and severe bleeding trauma first. Pain and suffering take a back seat. I am not defending this hospital, only telling you that is what has happened to me, and in some mighty fine hospitals too. On the other hand when we have had to take our grandson in with asthma attacks, he gets right in. He was having a breathing emergency.


I am glad that the end result was good. It is wise to have a physician here, even if you are a snowbird so that things don't progress to this dangerous level.