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Adoption Certificate for Nellie, the Daily Thread numbat (with thanks to @Catfish)
Hospital parking fees ๐คฌ
Nobody is going there for fun.
Its absolutely digusting, have always said it should be illegal to charge for parking at hospitals. At the very least free short term parking should be made available for urgent visits.
My dad at the height of his illness drove himself to hospital and parked in the hospitals parking facilities, and I couldn't get on a flight for two days and had no one in that area to help me. So I had to pay an insane parking fee, which made everything so much more stressful for me financially while I was in the middle of grieving for my dying dad.
Yeah, it adds another layer of complication and stress at a time when you already may have a million things on your mind. Maybe it's to stop just anyone parking there and occupying needed space but it could also be predatory
https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/hospitals-ordered-develop-fairer-car-parking-policies
Pulled a muscle in my back (the doc suspects) and it's giving me trouble breathing. I want to cry ๐ญ
I have fortunately never woken up at night because of pain so far and I had to last night cuz it got so bad. Off to scans. Also took a sickie cuz it's so uncomfortable ๐ช
Just out of curiosity, which side? Only because my pulled myscle turned out be a gallbladder erupting....
Left side. Doc suggested I get a chest x-ray and a d-dimer test done.