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  1. #121
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    My first memory of a family car was a Nash. My father would trade ever year and tell us to not tell anyone we had a new car. Back then they looked the same for several years. He bought the same color, which was sort of a butterscotch color. When I was around 13 he switched to Buick and he drove Buicks until I left home at 17. When I was 16 he also ownered a VW Carmen Gia that I got to drive on occassion. My mother had a Nash Rambler wagon that I learned to drive in. I remember knocking down a shrub next to the driveway because I could not get the gas/Clutch thing down and kept rolling backwards until the shrub was squashed. I remember at 13 trying to put dads car in the garage and hitting a post with the left fender. Needles to say I was in big trouble.

    I remember when we had our first TV, Television was so new in Birmingham there was only one station. There was the indian test pattern showing most of the day until late afternoon when they would start normal broadcast. The first show to come on was "Howdy Doody time". My favorite night time show was "Dragnet". "Just The Facts Ma'am"

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    How could I have forgotten Howdy Doody??? - and Bob Smith and Clarabell? Shari Lewis and Lambchop was my very favorite tho - I loved Lambchop!

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    This thread sure got off topic, didn't it? I hope allmycats doesn't mind too much......
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    Ok so it's not cigarettes, gas, or movie prices, but when my mom delivered me in the 70's it cost her $3,000 to be in the hospital for 3 days and she had 3 different doctors checking in on her.

    Fast forward the the mid 1980's when I had my tonsills out, 3 hours outpatient basis = $3,000

    I can't imagine what either of those would cost today.

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  4. #124
    Quote Originally Posted by Catlady711 View Post
    Ok so it's not cigarettes, gas, or movie prices, but when my mom delivered me in the 70's it cost her $3,000 to be in the hospital for 3 days and she had 3 different doctors checking in on her.

    Fast forward the the mid 1980's when I had my tonsills out, 3 hours outpatient basis = $3,000

    I can't imagine what either of those would cost today.
    Okay you just opened up a whole 'nother can o' worms (as we say in Missippi) now.

    One June 23 of last year I went for a Thallium stress test at a hospital in Memphis. I had been complaining of back pains -- pretty severe back pains -- and the doc lined me up for the test as a precautionary measure.

    I arrived for the test on Monday morning, and ...

    ..., I was not released from the hospital until Wednesday evening.

    The whole time I was there (mostly in ICU) I kept trying to get them to let me go home. The had performed a procedure on me, and after all was said and done I could not see what all the hullabalo was about.

    A few weeks later the EOB's started to arrive. Good thing I have insurance: the total hospital and doctor bill went well over six figures. Turns out I had a 99% occlusion of the LAD, the dreaded "widow maker." I survived the exact same condition that killed Tim Russert. It just so happens I was on the treadmill -- already nuclear (or is it nucular?) -- when BAM!

    Anyways, that's the whole can o' worms.

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