Townhouse Lady, I feel for you. I also don’t have health insurance, first time in a long time, and it’s scary, since I’m reaching the age where everything needs to be checked on.
When it’s icy and snowy out, I tiptoe down the street like a 85 year old grandmother. I don’t care how unchic I look. I’ll look less chic screaming in an overcrowded emergency room competing for the attention of overworked, sleep deprived residents.
Last time I had to go the ER, it was for an ear infection which was so painful, I thought I was going to die. I cabbed over to Brooklyn Hospital on DeKalb at 2AM and didn’t see a doctor until 7am, who looked at it and gave me a perscription for antibiotics and sent me home, where I received a $400 hospital bill. Health care for the unisured in this country is a crime. Let’s hope it gets fixed soon.
Lot of retailers filed January earnings reports today. NYT says it’s a disaster, but I thought the news looked hopeful. Low-cost stores such as TJX, Walmart, and Urban Outfitters are doing well. Nordstrom sales dropped only 11 percent despite some analyst late last year predicting their imminent demise because they weren’t discounting enough in his opinion. Predictably, regular department stores and anything “luxury” is down dramatically.
On another topic, I saw the movie “Subprimed” last night, about East New York. The movie made it VERY clear the vast majority of homeowners in foreclosure were victims, not collaborators.
In Bed Stuy people shovel their sidewalk so this is not likely to happen here, even in hiking through the treacherous terrain of Stuyvesant Heights. That said, I was almost buried in a landslide as I walked to Peaches one night.
67K…that must have hurt more than the shattered ankle.
Are you one of those people now that can predict if it’s going to rain cause your limb starts acting up.
Breaking news!
Maple syrup smell mystery solved. I can’t believe Brownstoner hasn’t already posted about this.
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/02/05/big-apples-maple-syrup-mystery-solved-fenugreek/
Peaches is the restaurant on Lewis Ave run by the people from the Smoke Joint.
Townhouse Lady, I feel for you. I also don’t have health insurance, first time in a long time, and it’s scary, since I’m reaching the age where everything needs to be checked on.
When it’s icy and snowy out, I tiptoe down the street like a 85 year old grandmother. I don’t care how unchic I look. I’ll look less chic screaming in an overcrowded emergency room competing for the attention of overworked, sleep deprived residents.
Last time I had to go the ER, it was for an ear infection which was so painful, I thought I was going to die. I cabbed over to Brooklyn Hospital on DeKalb at 2AM and didn’t see a doctor until 7am, who looked at it and gave me a perscription for antibiotics and sent me home, where I received a $400 hospital bill. Health care for the unisured in this country is a crime. Let’s hope it gets fixed soon.
ENY, thanks, look forward to hearing from you!
Peaches?
Aiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Townhouse Lady.
Lot of retailers filed January earnings reports today. NYT says it’s a disaster, but I thought the news looked hopeful. Low-cost stores such as TJX, Walmart, and Urban Outfitters are doing well. Nordstrom sales dropped only 11 percent despite some analyst late last year predicting their imminent demise because they weren’t discounting enough in his opinion. Predictably, regular department stores and anything “luxury” is down dramatically.
On another topic, I saw the movie “Subprimed” last night, about East New York. The movie made it VERY clear the vast majority of homeowners in foreclosure were victims, not collaborators.
In Bed Stuy people shovel their sidewalk so this is not likely to happen here, even in hiking through the treacherous terrain of Stuyvesant Heights. That said, I was almost buried in a landslide as I walked to Peaches one night.
THL…Wow, that’s a story.
67K…that must have hurt more than the shattered ankle.
Are you one of those people now that can predict if it’s going to rain cause your limb starts acting up.
‘4 hourses’
That’s like 240 minuteses.