Monday, June 30, 2008

The 29th and the 30th

It's me again (Julie) still sitting in the hospital room. Well..once again I am lagging behind a day in my posting, but don't worry, this entry won't be longer than life, because there is not all that much to write about. Yesterday morning, in preparation for what we believed was our soon departure, we wrote out cards and organized gifts for the nurses. We ended up putting a generous amount of money in each card and then putting the card (my idea mwahaha) into (as opposed to taped to) the packages we were planning on giving them .. clear plastic wrapping tied with a nice bow at top which contains little cardboard boces, cute mugs, a box of chocolates (hmm hope they're ok) and a teddy bear.. and now our sunshine themed cards! There are 7 nurses and 7 packages, all containing the same thing and with their name on the card. We just gave cards with the $ to the male food / housecleaning staff. I think they will be appreciative of these gifts - they deserve them. Mohan was not here since it was Sunday and Dr. Bose did not do rounds. Everything was a bit quiet. We could not move on with the insurance junk since no one was really here to do it. Dads bandage kind of came off in the shower which was bad, so we had that fixed eventually by another doctor. At night dad accidentally used the wrong controls so the T.V. stopped working and we couldn't get it back on. Joan was feeling better which was good! I am having some serious memory lapses about what else happened yesterday .. I know I was online, read, looked up Ideal Beach Resort for awhile and awaited this morning. Last night I started o get the feeling that it was truly time to move on.

This morning, when Mohan visited, we learned that the stupid insurance guy freaking STILL did not make clear what would be covered in regard to the remaining 30 percent - even after his reassuring 2 am phone call. At least the 70 percent was confirmed but... really. So, because of the stupid time difference, and since the woman for apollo hospital who deals with this stuff is vacationing in texas, even though dads hip is beautiful, we were told by mohan "not to rush it" and to stay another day while he figured out how much was being covered. One would really think that a week in the hospital would be ample time, but no, of course not. And on the US side this has been fought since .. the winter?! We were a bit frustrated in the morning, since it was a beautiful day out and our resort time is being cut shorter and shorter. Dad felt bad that I would be here another day so he asked Mohan if I could go out - anywhere. I then asked if anyone could come with me and the lady next door from london who lives in dubai (yes, the one who I met on our journey to the immigration bureau) said she would come. Mohan said a driver would be here by 1 or 2. We could not find him, but by 3:15 he came and got us. One of the housekeeping guys accompanied me to the ATM machine next door since dad was out of cash after all of this gifting business! Then we went off to Spencer's Plaza, a large and very confusing shopping mall. The woman I was with was very nice but did not want to stay long and told the driver we would be back about 2 and a half hours sooner than he offered for the price we were paying. She did not seem too interested in the shops - understandably, since people were so pushy trying to get you to go inside the smaller ones which were all over the place. We did go to the supermarket in the mall and purchase some things..but other than that we mainly wandered around dazed by the layout and magnitude of the place, haha. I cannot explain it.. it was circular, with empty space in the middle and a few floors.. but then there were also alleys extending outwards in different directions, and sections, and somehow it was very dizzying. It was interesting though, and good to get out for a bit. A man who I learned is an interior designer here in Chennai asked if this mall reminded me of my country. I said no, but this remark made me realize that this is probably an effort to appease western customers and that this place, which seemed foreign, interesting, unique and confusing to me, was seen by the locals as "western". Who would have guessed? Very interesting though. They did have some western stores and all, and after all, it was a 'shopping mall'. Random comment - in the taxi ride we saw women working carrying bricks on their heads! ouch! When we returned we visited Joan and helped her unpack.
She is feeling much better and will be going to the resort along with us tomorrow even though her surgery was a day later! Tonight dad received an email from Apollo hospital, and learned that these two extra nights we have essentially been forced to stay in the hospital (since they still don't have our insurance figured out) are each going to cost us twice as much as the resort would have! This was very frustrating as well, and another $ battle which I am sure will be brought up tomorrow morning upon discharge.

A note on tomorrow...

After discharge, which should occur sometime around noon (which means about an hour or so later).. we will head to the immigration bureau and hope they clear up everything even though we are scheduled to come on a different date (after we're gone). Then the hours drive to... Mamallapuram, at last. I think that the resort and tourist attractions surrounding it will be enjoyable so I am excited! :D

16 Comments:

At 11:06 AM, Blogger Ideklein said...

oh dear!!!! more money hastle for Gary.what an aggravation. should not have to pay extra for the stay you didnt plan for sure.dont let it stop you both from enjoying the resort.and hope it goes smoothly tomorrow.luv Grammy

 
At 3:38 PM, Blogger Saku said...

Oh gosh. Hope your release goes smoothly today. I'm really sorry about the hassle. Hope I'll be hearing from you both at the resort soon. Hang in there!
love
Saku

 
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