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Surgeon Testimonial Brian S. Boe, M.D. The entire staff at Barix Clinic/Northwestern Suburban Community Hospital in Belvidere, IL was great. Dr. Boe was professional and personable when I talked to him before and after surgery. He made me feel safe and that, to me, was the most important thing. The only negative thing I have to say is that I don't feel like I got a lot of one on one time with him to ask questions, although the nursing staff was there to help with any of those questions I didn't get to ask Dr. Boe. During my two night/three day stay there I came into contact with A LOT of nurses. At first I tried to keep track of all their names but because there were so many wonderful ladies working with me (not to mention I was on a lot of morphine) I was unable to. I didn't see a place to talk about the rest of the hospital staff and I really wanted to stress how great these particular ladies were so here we go. The second night in the hospital I got a fever and was worried that I wouldn't get to go home, or that there was something horribly wrong with me. One of the over-night nurses stayed with me in my room and talked to me to help me relax and feel better when I couldn't find the number to the hotel where my mom was staying. She didn't have to do that, but I was very grateful she did. I highly recomend Barix Clinic, all of the people there were caring and helpful. Member Interests
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You guys crack me up. And by "you guys" I mean the three-four people who check up on me from time to time via my "blog". I have now officially gotten 4 requests for an update. I didn't know I was so loved  .First you get to hear my excuses for no updates for a while... 1. My laptop is on its death bed. Occasionally it shuts itself down, the pop up blocker has died so I get raunchy advertisements and when I try to click the "x" I just get three more windows (and I have tried re-downloading the pop up blocker and updating my computer's security, but I think I have irrepairably damaged my computer. How you ask? Well, Kyle and I are watching reruns of The Office on TBS, but I missed the Casino Night episode and I was told that was the episode where Pam and Jim finally kiss, so I tried to watch the episode from an online site, and in my hurry I just clicked "Okay" to whatever they asked me to click "Okay" to and here we are) and the laptop's battery has died completely, so you might say the laptop itself is on life support. This makes me very reluctant to write anything on the laptop because I am afraid it will die mid-genius sentence and I will be left with nothing. 2. I am taking 16 credits this summer. Yes. Originally it was something like 13 credits but I wasn't going to be able to graduate with my geography emphasis unless I switched some things around, and that switching required me to take another course over the summer. My first summer term was 4 hours of class Monday-Thursday, but that ended last Friday and now I only have class from 8:30-9:55 Monday-Thursday, which leaves me with more time to update. 3. My internet has been AWOL for a few days. We unplugged the modem, waited, plugged it back in, unplugged it, waited some more, plugged it back in, turned it off, turned it on, rubbed its shoulders, said kind things to it, but no. The magic modem box still just blinked the first two lights, and anyone with a magical modem box knows you need more than 2 lights. I hoped the modem would wake up from its untimely slumber, so I just crossed my fingers and filled my time watching the WE channel, until I was finally irritated enough to call Mediacom who put me on hold for 59 and a half minutes!, during which time the little automated peppy voice told me to go to mediacom's website for help (well, I would, but MY INTERNET DOESN'T WORK!) and told me to try exactly the same things I had been trying. Finally, when I talked to an operator, she told me to try the same things that the automated peppy voice told me to try (to no avail) and then she scheduled a repair guy to come to our apartment today. Funny. I wake up this morning and all magical lights on the magical modem box are blinking. So I called mediacom, expecting to wait another 59 minutes to cancel the appointment, but no, that is an automated process that doesn't require hold time AT ALL. Funny people. And finally, not that much is exciting right now. My friend Val and I had an awesome time going to see the Sex and the City movie after a Sex and the City marathon, I had class, this Friday Kyle and I are going on his college visit to Trinity in Deerfield, Illinois and on Saturday I have my Praxis II exam (think big, bad, comprehensive social studies test - like ALL social studies, US History, World History, Political Science, Geography, Economics, and the Behavioral Sciences - Psychology, Sociology and Anthropology). I took a practice Praxis II yesterday and got a passing score, but just barely, and I need much more than a "just barely passing" score to get placed in the highly competitive Chicago area. I skipped my class today because I am allergic to summer or something. The past couple of days my whole face has been running and this morning I had a little temp and I felt like my head was going to errupt, so I just went back to bed for a while. I'm hoping to be better by tomorrow for Kyle's college visit and definately by Saturday so I don't have to be Mrs. Sniffles during the Praxis. I sat across the table from a Mr. Sniffles for my math final and I had some serious violent urges every time he snorted and hacked and breathed through his mouth like that kid with the glasses from Hey Aarnold. When I blow my nose it sounds like a goose in distress / moose in love, so even though if I am still sick by Saturday I'll be brining kleenex so I don't have to sniffle and snort, the loud blasts every time I blow my nose are not going to be much better. That will be all for now because it is time for another sudafed, but fear not, I am alive and still full of words. 
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Comment by floflo1981 on Jul 10, 2008 at 01:34pm
I am glad you are ok...i was worried too :)
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Glad things are going better (per your other blog). Big box stores suck!