Feeling abandoned medically, Harriet connects us with NorthBay phone advice.
Explaining the ongoing ill effects, advise is to get us down to Vaca Valley Hospital again --
first time midday,
and quite crowded on the waiting side of the Emergency Ward,
but more tests are made and voila, there is something new wrong:
Liver damage.
As the gastroenterological specialist, Dr. Krier,
is further south in Fairfield,
determination
is
made
to
get
thee
to
an
ambulance --
a
first
experience (an hopefully never repeatable!).
The ride features many cordial specialists
between here and there,
with talk about life,
the universe, and music.
As
Fairfield
NorthBay
Medical
Center
was designed by the same architect as Vaca Valley,
much similarity here,
and rather surreal --
but
nothing more to be done for now
than
listen to early 20th-Century YouTube musical score selections (an Apple adaptor for iPhone proves to be a life-saver several times in the sojourn),
but out the window accomplishing anything -- for now, at least.
Suffice it to say, there's plenty of sonic work still to be done... but will there be the time?
223rd day of summer, high down 3 to 87 (79 in Fairfield) -- and Arctic winds blow in the Hospital (in contradistinction to V-Ville, where rooms each had their thermostat). Here the staff seems to complain and laugh about the temperatures, but I've heard funnier jests...)....
Yet am still, of course, deeply grateful for the care, and amazed by human experience and forethought!