Anyway, back to me, myself, and I. The only three people I seem to be able to count on in life. And so, having the surgery and what Dr. Gilliam said apparently gave me the excuse I needed to stay in student housing beyond the move-out deadline; or did it? Stopping into NMSU Housing to talk with my friend, Jen M, a woman who goes beyond her job description to help the student, in particular those who are non-traditional students and live in what is called " Family Housing", or South Campus Housing which is where Cervantes Village is located, I learned that one must email the assistant director of housing, Ms. Aragon. Here's where things got rather difficult as you shall see.
Subject: Medical emergency- need to extend stay in student housing until May 25. Can provide documentation and/or phone contacts of doctors
Dear Ms. Aragon,
I am writing to you to request an extended stay in my current student housing unit, H-19 at 200 Cervantes Vlg. After discovering a painful lump under my left arm on Monday 4/29, I went to the urgent care on Walton Blvd. who in turn informed me that I need go straight to the emergency room; Memorial Medical Center being the hospital they recommended. Upon being seen by the ER doctor on call, after draining the wound which was rather large, the hospital admitted me, at which time he referred me to see the surgeon the very next day. I had the surgery on Thursday May 1st and was discharged last Saturday; the surgeon's orders calling for a visiting nurse and required daily bathing/change of dressing twice daily. This for a period of three weeks from Sat. 5/3/14, during which time I need follow the home health care nurse's directions and report for check ups with Dr. Gilliam- General Surgeon.
I am enclosing the contact numbers for all doctors.
Lance Whitehair, Resident MD at Memorial Medical Center. Office: 575-521-XXXX Fax: 575-521-XXXX.
Dr. Gilliam-Surgeon at General Surgery Associates, Office: 575-556-XXXX Fax: 575-556-XXXX
Cheryl Oropal
Her reply?
Hello Cheryl,
I will discuss your request with my supervisor. Are you planning on attending in the fall?
Candace Aragon
Associate Director
Housing & Campus Life
New Mexico State University
My reply was this.
Hi,
Thanks for looking into that for me, hope that the doctor's phone contacts will help, Dr. Gilliam-Surgeon would be the best to talk with as he gave the orders for my visiting nurse and about keeping the area clean and showering at least once daily[ he preferred twice, but....]. That and to lift stuff with that dressing I'm wearing As for attending NMSU-Dona Ana in the fall, I am planning to transfer to the State University of New York's Potsdam College. Originally I was accepted for spring 2014 semester at SUNY Potsdam but had deferred until fall 2014, figuring that moving in mid-winter would have been rough at best.
The truth, as I already deferred going to SUNY Potsdam until the fall of 2014 from spring semester, or January. To which the next reply would really tell me that one cannot be nice to an ARROGANT, SNIPPY " PROFESSIONAL" BITCH. Understanding of my situation? HELL NO!!!! Even though I never used, nor registered with Campus Health because students at fucking Dona Ana Mexicana Community College have to pay extra for all medical services and I have an off campus provider who also does my HRT, plus Medicare and Medicaid HMO which pays for it; I had to go to Campus Health to get their opinion before this fucking pill-box, Ms. Aragon, would approve of an extended stay. WHAT A PAIN IN THE GODDAMN ASS!!!
And so, how do you spell " Bitch" in Ebonics? B-E-Y-O-T-C-H.
Hello Cheryl,
We don’t contact doctors and we don’t accept documentation from doctors. Every case is person by person. I will be in contact.
Thank you,
Candace Aragon
Associate Director
Housing & Campus Life
New Mexico State University
Definitely the by the book snippy professional with an axe to grind and then some. The finale? So far anyway..........
Hello Cheryl,
You will need to take your medical documentation to the Health Center and have them review the documentation and have them email me. Without this information you will not be allowed an extended stay.
Thank you,
Candace Aragon
Associate Director
Housing & Campus Life
New Mexico State University
And so, that I did and it almost cost me the $35 fee to see the doctor at Campus Health; however they ended up waiving the fee, but only approved my extended stay until Monday May 12, the day that they learned I shall see the surgeon, Dr. Gilliam. Calling his office, General Surgery Associates the same day from housing where I later stopped to drop off the extended stay request I got at Campus Health, despite Ms. Aragon [ should be " Ms. Arrogant"] wanting the doctor to email her, I was told that Dr. Gilliam does not send emails. He could Fax something over, however, after my check up stating as to how many days more he needs me to follow the shower and bandage change regimen.
Which will, more likely than not, be for the next two weeks until either Saturday May 24 or Sunday the 25th; leaving me plenty of time to pack the fucking car slowly. Once that's done, I shall stay long enough for those " Up to 67 days early" to arrive, the earliest I can renew the car registration being Sunday May 25. A Day when New Mexico MVD will be closed for the long Memorial Day Weekend, and so Tuesday the 27th shall be the day.
And then I am off, sometime that week and probably by May 30th. Off to a state where I have been before and was born, New York-the Empire State, but a part of that state I maybe passed through back when I was still " It". In 1992 when I was still living with both parents in Orlando, Florida and took off to visit a friend I knew who moved back to his hometown of Buffalo, NY, after which time I drove the back highways across beautiful New York State and, as I remember, was on US Route 11 and passed through Potsdam, New York on my way toward Malone and SR-22. Sleeping on a back road amidst the Adirondack Mountains I still remember passing by the Ausable River Gorge.
New Mexico may be the so-called " Land of Enchantment" and does have some interesting geographical features to it, Angel Fire Mountain in the north and Sitting Bull Falls National Recreation Area near Carlsbad being two of those, and yes, Carlsbad Caverns National Park with its miles of underground caverns and bats flying out of the belfry [ cave] every summer evening. However, for the most part it is just a desert, the only exceptions being in the mountainous regions of the state.
By comparison, New York State is a green, lush paradise filled with gorges, waterfalls everywhere. By comparison, its mountains are not quite as high and the landscape not as wide open; cows do not graze free-range in New York like they do here in the West. New York's winters are much colder than anything Las Cruces will ever see; for that reason alone, people are moving into Las Cruces in droves. Unaware that there's only so much water in a region that gets, on average, just 10.5 inches of precipitation annually, on the East Mesa houses are popping up like zits upon the average teenager's face; each home built closer than anything Baldwin, New York on Long Island has ever seen. Las Cruces, New Mexico. Another Orlando, Florida with even fewer trees, much lower humidity but hotter in summer. A planned city with plenty of retail and fast food shitboxes for all the modern day idiots to shop and eat burgers at, we even have a Chuck E. Cheese replica called Peter Piper Pizza making the most terrible pizza to be found anywhere! A place where all the yuppie and Mexicana mommies and daddies can take their little fucking ninos' to play " safely" in " Such a dangerous world for children to play unsupervised in", or so says Fox News.
And so I shall be off. Sunshine never brightened my fucking life and sunshine-loving fitness-freak people simply make me even more depressed. That was true in Orlando and still is here in Las Crucifixion, another mostly conservative boomtown that still lacks a decent abortion clinic; yet contains two " Abortion alternative organizations" ready to shove a gooey dose of " Liquid Jesus" up your vagina should you be a pregnant woman. All of which shall be accompanied by an extra heavy dose of Biblical fairy tales, of course. Fairy tales which come in both SPANISH and ENGLISH.
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