I've Been Away Too Long

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Now let's be honest, I am not the most assiduous myLot contributor although there was a time in the dim dark past when I was here every day and night. Anyway, I've just spent the most ghastly long weekend in New York City. This is not an observation on New York, but what happened there. On our first night, just six hours after arrival, my wife had three consecutive epileptic fits, the last of which ran on for over thirty minutes and nearly killed her. Naturally I called for the ambulance and for the next five and a half days she lay in hospital in a medically induced coma. So that was the end of our long weekend. She lingered on in hospital for another six days before being discharged to our new hotel. I say 'new' because' by now our insurers had got involved and as an act of goodwill I had moved out of the $550 a night Five Star hotel into a more modest, although actually just as comfortable, three star one closer to the hospital. In the meantime our insurers did everything that they could to make me and then we, feel as uncomfortable as we could. They showed us no empathy or compassion, they had no sense of urgency and only contacted us if they wanted something and ignored my calls and e mails entirely most of the time. Eventually they arranged for us to go home, with a doctor as an escort for my wife. Even here they got their pound of flesh as they demanded that I underwrite the whole cost of their expenses should the underwriters of the insurance decide not to pay. Anyway, we are home in England again and never have I been so happy to be home. Our five day long weekend actually took twenty one days! Our first battle is over, now we have to see what the insurers will deign to fund; I feel that the war is a long way from being won. Nice to be back.