Who's your HMO?
Au
At 10:02 PM 10/23/00 -0700, Bill Hamburgen wrote:
>Sorry to say I'm somewhat of an expert on rolling pre-Previa Toyota
>vans. I nearly died in a rollover of a really, really worn out short
>wheelbase Toyota van in 1994. Going 70mph on a main highway (Arusha,
>Tanzania-to-Nairobi), the driver hit a big pothole. Two attempts to
>correct the skid and over she rolled. Took almost three hours to reach
>the hospital and I nearly bled out. Emergency surgery, 2 units of Nairobi
>blood (proved AIDS-free, thank God!), and after 10 days, a $90k Lear jet
>ride home at my HMO's expense. More blood, more surgery. Took a while,
>but everything is working pretty well now. My life's big adventure.
>
>I don't think that van would have passed tech anywhere ;-)
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>/Bill
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