Quote Originally Posted by ramanth
, and no pay phone to be found.
our local phone company came in one day and RIPPED out both of our PAY PHONES without telling anyone about it b/c they didn't have enough charges on it - probably b/c everyone uses their cell phones!! Made quite lovely LARGE BARREN holes in the walls!!!

And Pembroke_Corgi is right in larger facilities most nurses use a type of cell phone to communicate with each other.

In 2004 my grandma was dying in the hospital. If I wouldn't have had my cell phone I would have gone insane. I was on it on my way TO the hospital, while I was there (I didn't take it into the CCU where she was - ever) to tell my dad what I found out since he was recovering from surgery and unable to be there himself, and using it on the trip home. And yes that $150 phone bill bit me in the arse when it came - but I switched to the IN network and its been a GODsend.
and Jo
do you have bluetooth? Come June/July OH is one of the first states to pass not using your cell phone in the car without the hands free option. But you legal eagle mind probably KNEW that and could tell me a thing or 2 about it!