[Carl in Tampa]

Well, apparently the stress of packing for a move and putting her house on the market caught up with Barbara and she made a 911 trip to The Villages Regional Hospital last night.

Arriving at the Emergency Room by ambulance meant that she was seen immediately, and she was tucked into a cubicle in the ER, where she is still housed at 4:15PM the next day.

She and about twenty other people are in the ER waiting for people to check out upstairs so they can be moved to a room. When she arrived last night there were 100 people in the ER waiting room.

Apparently a lot of the crowd was stricken by the Flu. In fact, there is so much Flu in the ER area that people are not allowed to visit patients who are in the ER awaiting being moved upstairs.

Barbara's problem is not the Flu, so she is being kept away from other ER patients. Hopefully, she will be treated and released in a couple of days.

Be careful about your health in this Flu season.