Posted on 09/30/2014 7:16:57 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
According to the Louisiana regional news website, The Town Talk, the Alexandria V.A.M.C., the only Louisiana V.A. hospital between the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and Shreveport, has reported that it's Urgent Care Clinic will be changing it's hours of operation, from a 24-hour operation, to the hours of 8 A.M. to 8 P.M., Monday through Friday, and 8A.M. to 6P.M., on weekends and holidays.
The line given, now, is: "The Urgent Care Clinic offers care for cold and flu symptons, high and low blood pressure/blood sugar, and stitches."
A few weeks ago, I had a low blood sugar count in the pre-dawn morning hours. I could not operate my glass-faced smartphone. I could only wobble-weeble the 19 steps to the necessary room, from my bed. When I did get my fingers to work the smartphone, my speech, as my own ears heard it, was very slurred. The nice folks from the ambulance company, when testing my sugar level, told me it was 45, then. I needed to go the V.A.
Well, lo and behold, that was in the first week of September, and at first option, the V.A. refused. I don't know what the ambulance fellow did, but they changed their mind.
Now, with this official news, I guess myself, and every veteran that goes to the alexandria VAMC in Central Louisiana, had better not get sick, or hurt themselves, or not have high or low anything, after 8 P.M. because the great and lovely Veterans Administration, which always tells us veterans on the pre-recorded waiting cue, "We are here to serve you", is now telling us, "chuck fu!"
I’m half way between Shreveport and Alexandria and I’ve always gone to Shreveport ER, although the community clinic I go to is part of the clinics that use Alexandria. I would like to switch to Shreveport for everything but I just like my community clinic, although they don’t have a regular MD anymore.
Gotta give the money to the invading horded instead.
The VA (Togus) here in Maine has been that way for a long time.
I have gone to the civilian ER after hours, and just shown my VA card. Taken care of in a timely manor, and never see a bill.
The possessive of “it” is “its,” not “it’s.”
I appreciate your editorial input, with the same feelings that any writer would own, with this sort of response.
NOW!!
You admitted to reading my posting, by the scurulous act of exercising your editorial skills.
IS THAT ALL THE INPUT THAT YOU CAN MUSTER, with all those tax-paid years of education, behind you?? Certainly, there must have been some other thoughts/inklings/retorts spinning in that educated grey matter, as to this subject???
It is a shame, to waste all those years of education, that must have benefited you in life, in some form, to raise you above the level of a dolt! No?
THEN, if all you could offer, is an off-handed editorial correction, thanks anyway.
I posted this, because of the now-demonstrated ambivalence o the Veterans Administration.
When I arrived in the local area, 7 weeks after Hurricane Katrina destroyed the VAMC New Orleans, VAMC Alexandria, was still attempting to keep the “Mayberry RFD” way of doing things, with everybody having their own little ‘things’ going.
Since then, until VAMC New Orleans is re-opened, VAMC Alexandria holds the key.
At THAT time, they were operating, with the same exact hours, that they are returning to, on Monday. They HAD gone to a 24-hour Urgent Care Clinic, for years after that.
It’s all I had to give.
Dear Mssr McGowan,
Fair enough.
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