The Culprit – Broken Fiber Optics Cable
It irritates me beyond all measure that I’ve allowed my life to become so intertwined with technology that I can hardly proceed without it. For starters, I’ve been trying mightily to get back into my early morning blog routine. After all, my friend Janet depends (or used to) on reading it with her first cup of coffee each day. By now, though, she may have cozied up to another, more reliable source of pre-dawn verbiage.
So, for the past ten days, I’ve made every effort to get something going before I start my Nurse Ratched routine with Nyel and before I go out to say “hello” to the chickens. And every morning I am thwarted by the lack of internet service. It’s off-again, on-again, off-again, with the modem’s internet light alternating red and green and red from about five to seven every morning. Then, today, no flashing green. Solid red. And well into the afternoon.
Internet Photo of Century Link FiberOptics connection
Several calls to Century Link (by cell phone; our land-line was also down) to get an answer to our question, “What the heck?” Actually, we got an answer with each call — and each explanation different. What was consistent was their hard sell for a service upgrade that “will actually lower your monthly bill.” Balderdash! And who cares, anyway? That’s not the point.
Had I been able to blog early this morning, I’d have reported that our trip to Seattle to get a second opinion from the University of Washington’s Infectious Disease doctors went well. Except for the fact that they were running way behind and we didn’t get out of there until after six (home at 10:30) — we were glad we went.
New information: Nyel has many bone fragments in his thigh which may be causing his pain. (I guess the orthopedic surgeon at St. Vincent’s didn’t see them on the MRI. Or didn’t think they would cause Nyel pain. Or didn’t think we needed to know. ) Also new information: It is much too early to tell whether he has chronic osteo myelitis. He’ll go back to Seattle in eight weeks and they may be able to tell Nyel more. ) New Conclusion as a result of the visit: We are through with the Infectious Disease team at St. Vincent’s.
Bureaucracy Cartoon
What does the Providence Medical Group have in common with Century Link? Hint: Two words; the first begins with R and the second with B. Give up?
Answer: Raging Bureaucracy. Rampant Baloney.
Hi Sydney, I scoop I got about the Century link problem was there was a tower in Warrenton that had to be shut down completely so workers could repair it without getting radiation. As to the Century Link phone number to call for outages, here is the number that actually works without a sales pitch. 1-800-788-3600. Hope this helps Glad Nyel and you got some answers.
Thanks, Nora.
Such a discrepancy between the two hospitals. The new findings certainly sound right on, don’t they! I would imagine bone chips would make for pain in anyone and how horrible they weren’t discovered at St. Vincents! Do you think they could have seen them and didn’t want to do any more surgery on Nyel’s hip area & just crossed their fingers? Very negative thought but sometimes a person wonders.
We definitely wonder…