Quote Originally Posted by johntom2000 View Post
Great to hear about your grandma. Sweet on the tickets!
Yeah, it's been very touch and go for a while. Went in on the 18th for what was supposed to be a one day procedure to replace the wires leading from her pacemaker. Instead she's still in after the idiot who did the procedure screwed it up for the second time in 5 years. Not only did one of the wire end up placed wrong, but he nicked her lung in the process, causing it to collapse. Went from a one day procedure to her sitting in ICU with chest tubes and a whole bunch of other stuff hooked up.

Went like that for a few days, until her arms started swelling, postponing the follow up surgery to correctly lay one of the wires that wasn't laying correct. After determining the swelling wasn't caused by blood clots, that one wire started a shitstorm, as one day her heart rate raced up to the 160s, her blood pressure was all over the place, it was repeatedly sending a shock out, they kept a crash cart right there on her bed all the way from ICU to the surgery room because her heart could have stopped at literally any second. Thankfully they were able to get her in and get the surgery done (it was a full surgery this time, cracked ribs and chest opened up and all), got the wire corrected and everything seems to be alright. There was a brief pulmonary issue yesterday, but other than that, she's been returned to a standard room with a possible release day of Wednesday, but who knows if that'll hold.

Either way, what a disaster it all has been. Went in for what was to be a quick one day procedure on the 18th, now, on the 29th, is still in the hospital, with one full week spent in ICU. I've already sworn off that hospital. I don't care if I end up in an accident directly in front of one of the hospitals under their name, I'm refusing treatment if they try to transport me to one of them. I'll crawl my way to a different hospital, one I know who has actually hired nurses and doctors who didn't come last in their classes at medical school.

And agreed on the tickets. I had the same deal last year. Got into work on Saturday morning one week, and there in the air studio were three sets of tickets for games Saturday, Sunday and Monday. There was a note with them giving me the option of giving them away on air or keeping them for myself. I gave away the Saturday and Sunday tickets since I couldn't use them, but kept the Monday tickets and went to the game. They were great seats. Like I said, only two or three rows up from the field, directly behind home plate. They're basically season holder tickets, probably from a CEO or something from one of the big local companies in town that occasionally will donate tickets to either give away on air or let staff there at the station go to a game.

Got into work this past Saturday morning, there was only one set of tickets, but same deal, I could give them away on air or keep them and use them myself. So what the hell, they're some of the best seats you can get, and trying to order tickets through the team itself (not sure if Stubhub even has tickets for minor league baseball), you can't even get remotely close to that same section unless you go up to the second level. And it works well, being a noon game this time around. Unfortunately, to get home from the ballpark, we have to drive through some shady neighborhoods to get back to US 24, so I'd rather have a noon game than a game at 6 or 7pm.