OT Gunners in the hospital

Gunner we miss you and like the rest, wish and pray for the best. Comeback soon!!!!

Hope Gunner gets well. His backyard is one of the few tourist attractions that would tempt me to California if I ever get to the US... Geoff New Zealand

This is quite the list of well wishers. Good to see that trivial issues get ignored when someone's health is on the line.

Get well soon Gunner.

StaticsJason

snipped-for-privacy@AOL.COM (Leigh Knudson) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@posting.google.com:

Thanks for the heads up Leigh. Tell the silly bastard to hurry up and get better. I miss his sniveling about used equipment. :-)

Seriously, tell him he's in my prayers, take it easy and get well soon!!

Marty

I'm sure he has insurance through work, and he seems to be just ornery enough to get through this and keep the staff at the hospital on their toes. As far as the $100 I'd pitch in too, but my wife severed three finger tips April 4th, two hospitals and a helicopter later it was almost $90,000. Max out of pocket for insurance is $3500....phew..... So he may need a bit more than that... Prayers for a speedy recovery Alan

And my best to Gunner, too - while we often disagree on ideology, it's giving a shit that's the important part! I'm sure he'd agree with me that, in the words of "Smokey" Yunick (mad genius racing/engine mechanic) "We live in the United States of Goofy" - if the stent is a drug-coated one, it costs about $7000, plus "installation" - and I'm sure far more of that goes to liability insurance,vulture capatalists, sales commisions, kickbacks ("fragrant grease" in Hamei's world, IIRC), fancy real estate and leased Beemers, than goes into development and production. IMHO, the only organizations that can f#*% things up worse than government agencies are insurance companies and medical administrators...... Fortunately, the doc's are on our side.....mostly for the same reasons we're still making chips!

Self-employed I believe.

Jim

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My sister in law just had 3 of them installed in one of her heart arteries two weeks ago. Wasn't plugged up, just a genetic defect that had it meandering around with too many sharp turns. Talked to her a couple days ago, and she can't beliieve how much better she's feeling.

Garrett Fulton

Bummer.

Hang in there, Gunner. There's lots of "liberals" you haven't pissed off (or on) yet.

On the other hand, we all miss Tim.

That's why he's still around.

Bad aim. ^_^

FW

On 16 Jun 2004 20:59:09 -0700, snipped-for-privacy@AOL.COM (Leigh Knudson) calmly ranted:

Thanks for the heads-up, Leigh.

Hang tough, Gunner! Good call on not ignoring it and getting to the hospital quickly.

Hey, my tag-du-jour is apropos today, oui?

- Every day above ground is a Good Day(tm). -----------

Up here it's worth exactly one hundred bucks.

And when you go to McDonalds, Wendy's, or Tim Hortons, you usually pay the same amount in greenbacks south of the border as you pay in CanukBucks north of the border.

On 17 Jun 2004 17:57:44 -0700, jim rozen calmly ranted:

And if he's anything like the rest of us 82 million here in the USA lately, he's uninsured. That's OK. It's why the hospitals charge several grand a day to sleep in their beds, $26 for an aspirin, etc.: to cover it.

- Every day above ground is a Good Day(tm). -----------

Seems like you are making Gunners case against Central Gov. run health care

LOL Good one!! Sue

Gunner, best wishes for a speedy recovery! On a more serious note: Who is looking after the cats?

Hang in there Gunner.

It'l take more than this no question.

Mike

Just ran across this thread, and, I have to toss in my best wishes for a speedy recovery! I don't always agree with Gunner, but, we have areas where we overlap...and it is always interesting, thoughtful and entertaining to read his posts. It is a shame to loose that bright light for any length of time... Regards Dave Mundt