Actually the traveling nurse is a joke, but the rest is too real. I have about 20 phone numbers, nurses first, docs, specialists, diet consultants, emergency contacts etc. And given the speed it all happened the complainers have some sort of slow moving problem that the docs know to put on the back burner for someone like myself.

My favorite traveling sicko story involves Swedes I saw in Toronto about 10 years ago. Their national hockey team was playing a series of Canadian junior teams. The hotel had 3 buses full of 'fans'. I found out they were all being treated for depression, and sent to travel with the team as a therapeutic thing. I thought they were funning me, but I asked others on another bus what was wrong with the people in the other bus as they were standing outside and they said, "oh, we are all depressed over the long winter and our doctors sent us on a trip, we had a choice of 3."

OK, so that's a level of socialist medicine we will never see here...LOL.

Are we having fun yet?

John Conley
Musica est vita