The local hospital that saved me in 2009 is on the "list"
It is fairly close to where I now live.
In 2009 I had an awful pain in my lower abdomen. It kept getting worse and I called the Dial-a-Nurse that comes with my insurance.
When I told them how I felt and that I was losing track of time, I was told to call an ambulance which is what I did. The ambulance arrived and took me to the local rural hospital.
The doctor in the ER thought it was the swine flu at first but the severe pain in my lower abdomen baffled him so he ran a CAT scan on me.
I was in the room waiting for the results sort of slipping away I felt like. The doctor arrived back into the room and his face was almost a gray color. He told me it was a good thing I'd had the CAT scan because I have a hole in my large intestine, peritonitis had set in and I had 45 minutes to live.
After that it was a blur, a big beautiful BLURRRRRR!!!! I was transferred to another hospital and operated on at 3:30 a.m.
I was in the hospital when I woke up hooked up to a blood transfusion. I had four more of them and I thought I'd never recover or get out but after a month, I managed to get out with a colostomy bag on me. UGH!
To make a long story short, I managed to recover but it took a long long time. If I had not been taken to the local rural hospital that is on the list to be closed now, I would have died that night in November of 2009.
I'm still here as you can see and I managed to get rid of that awful bag several months later in mid-2010.
HOW DARE THESE FREAKS!
How many will die now because the hospital is to be closed.
HOW DAMN MANY YOU FAT-ASSED ORANGE CLOWN?
HOW MUCH BLOOD WILL BE ON YOUR BIG UGLY BUTT IDIOT?
Rant over for now.
Forever yours,
CountAllVotes !!
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It is here in northern California where the redwood trees grow tall and live to be 5,000 years old.
The way it is going, no one around here will be alive soon as more people have moved here and there aren't enough doctors and other healthcare professionals to deal with everyone.
Is this a way to get rid of the county I live in; one of the bluest in the Golden State?
Revenge can be so evil.
We must fight this horrible evil that has been cast upon us in every way we can and do it now, not tomorrow!
I have citizenship there because of my late husband.
In order to be "approved" to move there you need to have an income of 50,000EU a year to live there.
Well ... I don't.
They don't want one of their own for fucks sake!
What kind of a damn world are we living in anyway? 
No one wants "us" it seems.
Perhaps I am wrong but as a citizen of Ireland why can I not move there and live?
50,000EU is a joke. I doubt that many of the people living there have an income of 50,000EU!
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