How's the weather?

Weather in Kansas can always be an adventure...it takes on new significance when you're living with someone with compromised health...when you need to get to the hospital or appointments, you need to get there...we had major snowfall with blowing and drifting winds, and our driveway is snowed close...the average person may look at their driveway and be glad they have nowhere in particular to go, but I look at it and wonder what the prospects are of even the ambulance getting through if necessary...how would I get him over the high drifts between the house and the driveway, even if they could get down the driveway enough to get closer to the house?

We plan for upcoming storms by making sure we have enough dogfood and milk and other necessities, but making sure we've been to the pharmacy to have necessary meds and ensuring the car has plenty of gas are other considerations....the first time his defibrillator went off after his first implant, I had to stop for gas before we could head to the ER to get checked out...making sure I have gas in the tank is one of those items always at the top of my list of tasks when he's sick and there's a chance I'm headed to the hospital....even if he goes by ambulance, there's the risk I'll be driving to meet them there...

Due to the weather, he's had to cancel a cardiologist appointment to follow up on the latest implant...his defibrillator went off in Denver in September, and at an appt in November, we learned the battery had died...when he went in for a battery replacement, they took him in to surgery telling him the entire unit was being replaced....attention to others....there is NO replacing batteries with pacemaker/defibrillator units...there is replacement of the entire $29,000 unit...that is, there is replacement if you have Medicare and a good supplement to pick up the additional costs.... I have to wonder what happens when you don't have that...now we begin the battle with moving the KU appts up...should be fun...or not.