Notices by Charles ☭ H (celesteh@lgbt.io), page 7

The piece of music BA uses is like 18 minutes long, but they only use like 2 or maybe 3 minutes of it.

No, sorry. I was confused.

This is the piece: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_Duet

The next hurdle will be dealing with a telephone consult with my surgeon. The NHS can't call UK phone numbers if the phone is abroad. So will they zoom?

BA has agreed in principle to move my ticket, but will call me back "in 5 seconds"

Why am I trying to pay with a foreign credit card?? I'm making things harder than they have to be.

Why did I think calling BA would take less than an hour?

I should have left 20 minutes ago for tonight's seder.

I'm going to be 40 minutes late.

..awkward....

By the time I get off hold, I'll be late for the flight

Not really. Thats a joke.

Is my dad dying? All we know for sure is that he wishes for a greater variety of unsalted nuts.

"Moderate" congestive heart failure??

My dad is now shut up in a bedroom, running a heater full blast, wearing a coat, staring into the middle distance.

He blames himself for his sudden decline, for not properly following his YouTube health advice.

Apparently, when this started, he went to one of Texas's "cash-only" emergency rooms (A&E) and said something wasn't right. His lungs felt like they had fluid. They'd given him a blood test which didn't show an infection, but he was insistent, so for $50 extra, they xrayed his chest and found fluid, so a vending machine dispensed some antibiotics.

I don't k ow of he failed to mention his newish heart stent or it just never occurred to them to check if he was having atrial fibrillation, but it seems like they just sent him to drive himself home in the middle of a heart attack.

I just. Cash-only emergency room??

He might not be dying, but he is also not going to get better.

Please fight for the NHS.

So my dad's ~chiropractor~ "prescribed" him a million high-dose supplements. An overdose of vitamin D can cause exactly the symptoms of the new heart condition that is disabling him. He is taking about ten times the dose described as "dangerous" in studies.

His fucking chiropractor.

There are so many people ready to harm elderly people for a bit if dosh.

Is my dad dying? Nobody knows!

@mattl What is the first thing that you are printing?

Can USians please not

@mattl Very petty of them, really. The complaints would have been hilarious.

@mattl wait, did you actually run this??

@david_colquhoun

Hello, yes it's annoying when USians forget that other countries exist, but I feel like maybe there are better times to raise objects and worse times. This is not the post I would pick for it.