Hi,
My lady friend's daughter loves the musical group, Rascal Flats.
So when she heard I could get freebies to see them on Friday, she
asked me if I would go to the Sun. I agreed and decided to visit a
day earlier via bus, in order to get some time in on $Pick'Em & the
9/6 Jacks.( More about that in another post). Anyway on Friday
morning I decided to go to the exercise room for some treadmill
work. I have been a runner for over 30 years and have used a
treadmill about a dozen times. For the first time I also plugged in
headphones in order to listen to the TV above my machine. It costs
15 pts. to use the room( up from $10/last year).
Anyway after running for about ten minutes I lost concentration and
slipped ! To make a long story short, I really messed up both legs
from the knee to the top of my ankle socks. Immediately the
attendant came over. I was bleeding from several abrasions on each
leg. They sat me outside the spa and someone went to get me an ice
bag. When I asked for gauze pads and tape, I was informed that there
wasn't a first aid kit either in the exercise room or the spa !! I
was dumbfounded. Finally they called EMTS who are stationed on the
Mohegan Sun grounds. They gave me pads and tape but didn't have
anything like a bacitracin/neosporin to cleanse or protect the
wound. Now I understand that they don't want to get involved in
dealing with meds but certainly something as harmless as these
ointments or one of the over the counter first aid sprays should have
been part of their supplies. Of course the fact that there wasn't a
first aid kit available in the first place bothered me more than my
injuries.
I went back to my room , showered and then managed to find some
neosporin in a kit in the sundrie shop beside the hotel elevators.
Later that evening I realized that I would need new pads to redress
the wounds the next day. When I asked secuirty as to the whereabouts
of a first aid station, I was informed that there wasn't one in the
casino/hotel but that I could call the EMTS who would attend to me.
I explained what had happened that morning and didn't want to call
EMTS for a few gauze pads, but in fact eventually had to( the EMT guy
was not that happy when he realized why he was called). That was the
only way I could get more pads !! What kind of a place is this ?
I'm thinking of writing to the VP of hotel operations. Anyone have
any other suggestions?
Yes.. I know its Indian grounds and not Conn. territory.
Larry Feldman
PS.. BTW one of the security supervisors told me that I should have
called a casino host since " they could get anything".