Tell me if you don't think this is the craziest thing you've ever heard of...
Dad was put in a private room on Wednesday. Evidently, the VA hospital in Amarillo is not equipped to perform a heart cath, so they were going to medi-vac him to the Albequerque VA hospital to have that procedure done, then send him home. All they were waiting for was a bed to open up for him to go.
Keep in mind that if this were an emergency situation, they would take him three blocks down the road to the Baptist hospital, have the procedure done, then take him back to the VA.
But because this is not an emergency situation, they are going to medi-vac him to Albequerque for the duration of the test, then buy him a BUS TICKET home.
Oh, wait! Did I tell you that as of today, they still had no beds available in Albequerque? Yeah, so they are sending him to Tucson.
TUCSON, ARIZONA!!!!!
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Are you freaking kidding me?
At least he gets a plane ticket home instead of the bus.
And we wonder why we have a national debt of nine trillion dollars.
3 comments:
I am not surprised... AJ's dad went through all that with the VA in Amarillo himself. We have a friend who frequents the VA in Big Spring... same story there too. Both of them have been to Albuquerque a time or two and AJ's dad had his heart worked on in Tucson as well. Doesn't make any sense does it?
Ummm...and how long were they gonna have him stay in the hospital before they sent him on a multi-hour bus and/or plane trip home? We don't allow our heart cath patients to travel for more than an hour or so without getting up and moving around to stimulate circulation for at least 3 days--too much chance of a blood clot in the WRONG place. Just askin'...
Does he have to ride 'cargo'? I would be very cautious. This sounds really strange... But it is the government.
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