CD Member in Hospital

[ChrisH]

For those of you who have been sending occasional e-mails. KarenH is scheduled to change hospitals today. She is supposed to move from Torrance Memorial to Cedar-Sinai. In any case the old address for e-mails will shortly stop working. I'm not sure if Cedar-Sinai has a similar system or not. I didn't see one on their website, but then it is so big that I probably just haven't found it yet. I'll post the new address if and when I find it. Or you could just send them via me!

This will be somewhat tramatic for Karen. Torrance is where we grew up and is surrounded by friends and family. She is worried that she will be forgotten and that nobody will come to visit. Cedar-Sinai is not all that far away, but Beverly Hills is not eactly our usual stomping grounds either. But they are also one of the best hospitals around for IBD. So all in all I think it is a good thing.

We also had some other good news last night. A friend came to visit Karen in the hospital. We knew that she works for our health insurance company, but we didn't know exactly what she does there. We were talking about Karen's upcoming ambulance ride and wondering whether it was covered and how much it would be if not etc. When this friend pops up with "Inter-hospital transfer? of course it's covered. If you get ANY bills from either hospital send them to me!" It turns out that she runs the department that pays the hospital bills ... Who needs lawyers when you have friends in the right places!