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mdlbearWent in to see Colleen this evening, to play a little guitar and get some training on the portable IV pump. OK, I understand that they don't see them all that often, and that the visiting nurses are the real experts on that equipment. But couldn't they have found someone who can teach, who's a native speaker of English, and knows more about the equipment and the process than I can figure out from five minutes of looking at it?
Fortunately it's a heck of a lot simpler than the pole-mounted IV pump I was trained on in the nursing home.
I also got a look at our latest cell phone bill, covering almost exactly the time Colleen was away from home. See title.
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Date: 2009-01-03 03:43 pm (UTC)Personally? I'm liking the heck out of my Virgin Mobile phone. You can go either way with it, pay-as-you-go (and if you re-up at least every 30 days your minutes roll over... as little as $20 does it) or month-to-month; the *most* you'll pay is $79/mo for unlimited voice. Text is $.10/ea, or you can pay per-month for better rates, and there is an unlimited option (I don't remember how much but it's almost nominal)... and you can get data phones too... and there is a bidirectional email/txt gateway (short message limits apply, but it's there). There's also unlimited mobile-to-mobile on the top two or three plans, so you wouldn't have to get the absolute tippy top if you got Colleen a similar phone. You can buy the phones (outright) at Radio Shack, among other places... It's Sprint's signal, for what that's worth...
But I think about everybody is doing unlimited somethingorother if you're loath to change plans.
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Date: 2009-01-03 06:37 pm (UTC)One thing to do if you switch providers to get a better rate is check coverage - real coverage with a real phone if you can. T-Mobile says they have excellent coverage at our house. Our friends with T-Mobile phones are lucky if they can take a call here, although it will almost always ring; it just won't always hang on long enough to answer, or stay connected after that.
(One of the reasons I went with AT&T in the first place was the fact that my company uses them as their provider, and I knew the on-call phone had excellent reception pretty much everywhere I went, so I knew their coverage was solid. Of course, while it wasn't part of my reason for choosing them, I'm now very bound to them due to having and loving my iPhone.)
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Date: 2009-01-03 06:49 pm (UTC)I can, however, use T-Mobile as a threat, since I also really want an Android phone, and they're the only ones that have the G1.
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Date: 2009-01-03 07:01 pm (UTC)Definitely agree with DeathStarCo's coverage being superior, though.
/me wonders if you could unlock an Android and convince Deathstarco to activate it? :) Probably a pricey move, but... maybe next year, eh?
(Money and signal no object, that's what I want, too... but money alas IS the object right now....)
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