{"id":57612,"date":"2024-10-04T00:19:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T00:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57612"},"modified":"2024-10-04T03:47:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T03:47:37","slug":"go-get-em-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57612","title":{"rendered":"Go get ’em, VA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It’s been a while since I last sang the praies of the Veterans Administration, on which I depend for my primary medical care.<\/p>\n

So, I’ll offer a word of praise.<\/p>\n

An unusual event occurred today. I returned from a vacation in Greece. Then I developed a pain in my right foot. It continued to worsen. I called my physician at the Rayburn VA Medical Clinic in Bonham. I got a physician’s assistant on the phone and told her of my concern. She recommended I check into an ER today to have someone look it over.<\/p>\n

I did. I went to Medical City\/McKinney, not far from my house. The PA had given the number of the VA’s hotline, which I called to let them know I had checked into the ER.<\/p>\n

With that phone call, the VA became hooked up with a private medical provider.<\/p>\n

The ER did an ultrasound, looking for evidence of a blood clot. They found nothing. The doc came out, counseled me on what to do, prescribed some high-powered pain meds he said would attack the inflammation in my foot. “We are going to treat this as gout,” he said.<\/p>\n

Fine. I was out of the ER and back home in three hours.<\/p>\n

Not bad at all.<\/p>\n

I am a major fan of this pre-paid medical care I earned from my two years in the. Army.<\/p>\n\n

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It’s been a while since I last sang the praies of the Veterans Administration, on which I depend for my primary medical care. So, I’ll offer a word of praise. An unusual event occurred today. I returned from a vacation in Greece. Then I developed a pain in my right foot. It continued to worsen. … Continue reading Go get ’em, VA<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10103,5077],"class_list":["post-57612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-medical-city","tag-va"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57613,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57612\/revisions\/57613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}