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Originally Posted by Randall55
We did not mind ordering items on-line. Each time we ran out of bread, milk, aspirin or cold medicine, we had to drive 20 to 30 minutes to pick it up.
It is easy to say you do not need a fitness facility. I am 60 yrs old and injured my knee. We had to travel 40 minutes to get to fitness machines that would help my recovery. Doctors? 40 minutes away.
Restaurants? You can count the number on your fingers. Each one serves below average food. Another 40 minute travel time to add to your day.
Let's not forget the plans for a new hospital has been scratched. The choice in the south is one-star rated Leesburg Hospital, outpatient care, and a small emergency facility that was crowded each time we needed it.
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At 60 you are not the demographic I am speaking of. Many residents are aging in place and rarely leave there comfort zone.
We can be at a grocery in 5 minutes, yet I won’t shop there. Working 60 hours a week still drove close to an hour to grocery. Now I have 20 hours a day to literally fill all the down time, and only need to see a physician once a year.
After 40 plus years in trauma, stepping into a ED department has been the same in every state. Full of people who should have gone to urgent care, doc in a box, or just called the office in the morning. Blaming staff for the non emergent, bogging down the system, will never be fixed. All the while that stubbed toe is angry that nobody is taking care of them, because staff is in trauma rooms keeping people alive.
Goldwing also addressed the new hospital more than once. Most don’t realize just to get CON, it can take years.