The walk from the gate to the baggage claim had to be more than a half mile. We got our bags, and the prearranged shuttle/car driver was supposed to call us. He didn't. I called the hotel and they didn't seem to have any record of my car reservation. They sent another driver and he was there in about 30 minutes.
The good news. When I talked to the lady at the hotel (the guesthouse), she said they were overbooked due to extended stays and that we would be upgraded to the "nicer" suites hotel. Owned by the same company. Also on the CC campus. The price was twice as much, and since we're going to be here for 10 days, it seemed prudent to stay at the guesthouse. I asked if they would be able to keep us in the nicer joint at our original price due to the inconvenience. The lady said I'd have to ask the front desk at the other hotel. Great. On the ride to the hotel, I was planning my argument and rationale to convince them to let us stay in the nicer hotel for the same rate. But when we got to the front desk, amazingly, they agreed without blinking an eye. Of course they'd let us stay. Outstanding.
Let's hope the service at the hospital is this good.
3 comments:
Hi there,
Sounds good. Wonder if we will get bumped also. hmmm... Fun. I hope that you have a wonderful weekend.
Brice,
You probably didn't expect to have a stranger comment on your blog, but as a healthy 40-year-old man facing minimally invasive surgery on January 12th, I've been scouring the web for as much information as I could find about what to expect. Lo and behold, I found your blog.
I assume that with all you've got going on right now, you aren't likely to read this posting until after the Big Day, but if you do I just wanted to wish you the best of luck.
Myself, I am scheduled for January 12th (as I mentioned). I'm having the procedure done at the University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore. Dr. James Gammie is the valve surgeon there and the reason I chose him- apart from being local- is that he is what they call a "super-specialist". Valves only. He's done a few hundred of these minamally invasive repairs so I feel I'm in good hands. Had the cath done two days ago and I didn't enjoy that experience one bit. Your account was right on the money.
Anyway, best of luck. I look forward to reading your updates. Take care.
-Richard
Richard.
Thanks for tuning into my blog. I completely understand your quest for information. It's how I happened upon the minimally invasive procedure and how I ended up at the Cleveland Clinic.
Actually, my cardiologist recommended me to a surgeon who only performed the traditional method. When we visited a surgeon in Indy who performed the minimally invasive procedure, he said it was too complicated and, also, that anyone who did the robotic method was just "crazy".
I'm having the surgery, minimally invasively using the robot-assisted technique, which has better results than even the traditional minimally invasive procedure and even smaller scars. My surgeon and his team perform two to three hundred of these per year.
I'm glad you found an expert in your area that can perform the procedure. It's interesting that you live in that area because I was born at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore when my parents were living in Columbia, MD, and my dad worked at the Pentagon. Small world.
Thanks for chiming in. And best of luck with the surgery (and the waiting, which isn't easy to do).
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