The Daily Rave

[iris lilies]

I had a mamogram today. It took a total of—get this—30 minutes from the time I left my front door to the time I arrived back home. Beat that, big city medical facilities, I dare ya!

Little did I realize how incredibly handy it is to live in Hermann with its hospital half a mile away. They do all of the radiology and etc tests there.

If I was in the city I would have had to drive at least 20 minutes to the giant parking garage ( after figuring out WHICH giant parking garage to use) then driven up winding floors of cement to stop near the top because every space is full. Then find the door to…which building to go to in the giant mega complex of illness? A guessing game. Then walk at least a quarter mile and assuming I found the right department in a timely way, wait in a room of 20 people, check in, wait some more. Then have the procedure done. Find my way back yhru the maze of corridors to the parking garage, then figure out hiw to get out if the parking garage.

I am parking garage challenged, I hate ‘em. Give me a surface lot any day because then
i can see where I am and can see directions.

TLDR: yay for small town medical facilities!!!

[rosarugosa]

Well I am a suburban mouse, but I get my mammogram done in the same office as my primary care MD, and I coordinate the two so I don't need to make an extra trip for the mammo. It's in a not huge medical office building with a parking lot right outside. They even have a very large indoor koi pond which is rather delightful.

[Tybee]

Just had mine at my tiny little rural hospital, and it was very quick, although getting an appointment can take 10 weeks.

[Teacher Terry]

I am a mid size town person. I don’t like living in a small town and I can’t imagine living in a huge city either.

[Tradd]

I’m a suburbanite.

I’ve now lost 5lbs on WW. Still experimenting with what I can eat, portion sizes, etc.

[Teacher Terry]

My sister lives in a very nice suburb of Chicago but I have always hated driving there and wouldn’t live there. Her career took her there and she never liked it but stayed after retirement because her friends are all there. The biggest town I have lived in is Milwaukee which in the 70’s was a great city.

[Tradd]

My sister lives in a very nice suburb of Chicago but I have always hated driving there and wouldn’t live there. Her career took her there and she never liked it but stayed after retirement because her friends are all there. The biggest town I have lived in is Milwaukee which in the 70’s was a great city.

It depends which suburb. I’m in the NW suburbs and traffic isn’t particularly bad.

[catherine]

Our rural rinky-dink health center is OK, as you know, but I love the UVM Medical Center in Burlington. It's a very good healthcare center, had great doctors and everything is close by and it all has a small-town feel.

Our next-door neighbor had a heart attack last weekend, around 9pm on Friday night. We called 911 and drove behind the ambulance to the ER. The place was like a library it was so quiet! Not quite like the ERs in New Jersey!! (Actually The Medical Center in Princeton is not bad--we lived halfway between that hospital and Robert Wood Johnson, which was definitely more of an urban hospital).

[SiouzQ.]

A photo of the dining room K took on his commute to the living room (home office) yesterday morning!

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[iris lilies]

A photo of the dining room K took on his commute to the living room (home office) yesterday morning!

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oh that wall color! I am sad that I was never able to own a house in the southwest with all those great colors and that charming unique architecture.

when I see southwestern/Mediterranean/south of the border/Spanish styled architecture here in the Midwest, it’s always arresting. It’s weird and out of place, but it’s arresting.