Dan K said:
Yvsa,
Glad to see your on the mend. The last time I saw you we were both gimping around. Yah, I've got the crap mostly beat. Some stuff I'm stuck for...lungs, the heart stuff is fixed, some is in remission and the rest...legs, will get fixed in time. The VA does good work, but the waits for non Sc can be lengthy.
Like I said, I talked to Bill the day before he departed, but what's the story on Rusty?
Later, Dan
Glad to hear you're mostly fixed up Dan! Bill was a loud and lengthy opponent to the way the VA handles its work load and I don't think anyone here begrudged Bill his feelings. The VA can be way too much like ndn health care too much of the time by the way they handle their workload.
But Bill was always on the side of those he felt were being treated unfairly or out of hand and was one of the reasons everyone loved Bill.
Dan this is what I understand about Rusty's leaving us so soon after Bill did....
Not too terribly long before Bill and Rusty walked West Rusty had a really bad experience with his doctors and the hospital in Reno.
Rusty refused an angiogram and the hospital forced Rusty into having one done that they said, "was for his own good."
Come to find out though Rusty's angiogram was unnecessary and a waste of time and Rusty's money.
From that moment on Rusty hated all Drs', nurses, and hospitals as well as distrusted them beyond belief.
Then Rusty came down with a really bad cold or the flu or the like, not sure if anyone ever found out for sure just what Rusty's ailment was.
But anyway Rusty laid down on their couch in their living room and told his wife Mary that he was going to take a nap.
Mary was begging Rusty to go to the Dr./emergency room but Rusty told her that he would be fine.
Around midnight Mary went to wake up Rusty and it was too late, Rusty had already walked West.
Was it a coincidence that he left so soon after Bill or was it by Rusty's choice that he leave with his bother or so soon after?
We may never know the real truth.
I just know it was a shock too all of us and that Rusty will long be terribly missed by all of us/those who love Rusty.
Perhaps munk and a few others will chime in with their own understanding.
It's not often that two souls who are such close kin walk West so close to one another.
It still hurts way too much to talk about Bill and Rusty's leaving in the manner they chose.
Always good too see another old timer pop back up again. I've often wondered about you and if you were well, seem to recall you had some medical problems there for a while.