John Grochowski and Linda Boyd will be talking about video poker
tomorrow night (Saturday, September,1).
It's on WCKG-FM, 105.9 in Chicago. Show airs 6 p.m.-7 p.m.
Streams online at www.wckg.com.
Linda Boyd Will Be On John Grochowski's Casino Talk Show Tomorrow (Saturday) Night
I have promised this for some time, know not where to start:-)
I flew to LV Sunday afternoon 7/22, ostensibly for a two week trip, got ill on the plane, thought it was a touch of food poisoning, wrong, so wrong. for some unknown reason Terrible's had their fancy limo pick me up at the airport, not their shuttle, . The driver even asked my permission to allow three other people to ride to Terrible's with us.
I was already in agony so went straight to bed and got worse. I called the front desk around midnight and security showed up followed soon by EMTs. I asked them what they were going to do with my unopened luggage and security informed me their policy was to lock it in the room. I talked them into letting me take it with me.
I spent some 3 hours on a gurney in a hallway of Sunrise Hospital before an Emergency Room bed became available. I had chest x-rays, a CAT scan and an EKG before a surgeon informed me around 8:15 that I was scheduled for surgery at 10:00AM. I thought it was interesting that when I was wheeled away for tests, my luggage went with me, suitcase under the gurney, briefcase with laptop beside me, etc. I was surprised that around four people really hurried to get me ready for surgery. One of them was a security guy that searched through most of my stuff, inventoried it and handed me a receipt. I was in so much pain that I did not notice that I signed away my dignity and all decorum.
I am going to skip to the VP related stuff. I recommend to anyone in a similar situation to be proactive and when questioned, tell the truth!! Every time someone asked me what I did, I replied somewhat simplistically that I was a professional gambler. Only in LV would no one question that, instead they would ask me what I played, etc. I will leave it to my good friend Ron to l fill you in on a conversation I had with my surgeon around day 3? While he was visiting.
I retrieved my cell phone soon after I came to in Intensive Care and called my wife back in Dallas and my friend Scot Krause whom I gave permission to post my cell phone number. It was also posted on two other sites, one being LVA and I was astounded at the phone calls I received wishing me well, some from people I had never met except through posts here or elsewhere. I even received get well cards from two people I had never met, one being an author that posts here regularly and I HAVE met Bob Dancer and Jean Scott:-)
I ended up being in the hospital for some 12 days, developed secondary(?) pneumonia and had a serious heart problem, arythmia (sp) develop Tuesday evening 7/31. I passed the time by giving VP lessons to various nurses, even taught one the Hi-Lo counting system. Ya'll should have seen me in Intensive care demonstrating WinPoker on my laptop to 4 nurses on their break!!
Their is a lot more, of course, but later.
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I spent some 3 hours on a gurney in a hallway of Sunrise Hospital
before an Emergency Room bed became available. I had chest x-rays, a
CAT scan and an EKG before a surgeon informed me around 8:15 that I was
scheduled for surgery at 10:00AM.
Glad to see you are up and about and relating your experiences.
Would it be wrong to ask what your surgery was for?
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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Joe Pucek <pucekjoe@...> wrote:
Ischemic (sp) colon was one term I heard. Surgeon said he removed about 25% of my colon. When i asked him which part he replied that it was the ascending colon. I read the pathology report which said it was gangrene but negative for cancer. Just how clinical do you want me to be, anyhow?
deuceswild1000 <deuceswild1000@yahoo.com> wrote: :
I spent some 3 hours on a gurney in a hallway of Sunrise Hospital
before an Emergency Room bed became available. I had chest x-rays, a
CAT scan and an EKG before a surgeon informed me around 8:15 that I was
scheduled for surgery at 10:00AM.
Glad to see you are up and about and relating your experiences.
Would it be wrong to ask what your surgery was for?
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worse. I called the front desk around midnight and security showed
up followed soon by EMTs. I asked them what they were going to do
with my unopened luggage and security informed me their policy was
to lock it in the room. I talked them into letting me take it with
me.
Joe
Glad to hear your good to play another day.
With luggage, in your case, it made sense to take it with you. I'm
guessing you were traveling alone. When I had to ride to hospital
with my wife from the Starust a year ago security said the same
thing about room; they would lock it. My wife takes lots of jewelry
with her, so I took her jewelry case with me. In the shuffle I over
looked an expensive diamond ring and some gold things, in the open,
on nite stand next to bed. Wife stayed many days in hospital. I got
back to Dust in about 18 hours. My door wouldn't work and I had to
go to front desk to get key activated; with ID. I think they even
got security ok to allow the activation. I would guess housekeeping
couldn't get into room either. Bottom line; nothing was disturbed
and the room was actually secured. This doesn't mean to trust them,
you know, an ounce of prevention. Don't leave valuables if you don't
have to. But, in my case it turned out ok.
Cheers
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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Joe Pucek <pucekjoe@...> wrote:
I was already in agony so went straight to bed and got