Travel ban starts in Mass at midnight Monday (Jan 26 - Jan 27)

[merrily]

7. I've long used the shuttle system and the shuttle drivers would fit under any definition of

essential. They move people from neighborhood health centers (and therefore various neighborhoods) back and forth to the General and also from parking lots and garages to the General. I don't know which new arrangements have been put into place, but I am sure Massachusetts General has taken care of it in its usual thorough, systematic fashion. (Ever notice the carriage that served as its first ambulance in the main lobby of the main building? Whoever thought to save that all these years? Ditto the stuff in the museum.)


Thanks for the well wishes. The issues are such that cure or full recovery is not possible. Hence my return trips to the ER and inpatient care. However, I could very easily have died all the way back in 1996. I didn't. I owe my near miraculous survival to the surgical and other care I got at Mass General, very much including the nurturing nurses and nurses' aides.