If there ever was a perfect time to break your arm, WE managed to nail it.  While he was getting his splint put on in ER, the guy wrapping the bandage said that all the techs like him were going to be laid off the next week.  That meant that starting this previous Monday, the doctors themselves would have to put on the splint, which would have extended our wait in ER from 4 hours to 6-8 hours, since the doctor is going to be needed more throughout the ER.  WE was in a week ago today, so we lucked out there.  Though it's sad that budget cuts are happening in a place that provides such an important service to the community.  I just can't help but think that if the government would cut back on something that isn't necessary, like live security guards at the public library, maybe we wouldn't have to lose such a valuable service.  I mean, do we REALLY need a security guard at the library?  It's a public library, you're allowed to take things out of there, so theft really shouldn't be much of an issue.  And if there's a maniac with a gun?  Some of the security guards I've seen there are, no lie, about 75 years old.  I hardly think someone's grandpa is going to take down a guy with an AK-47, he's going to grab his cane and hobble out that front door as fast as his little arthritic legs are going to carry him.  On Thursday, WE had to go to an orthopedist to get his cast put on.  I know we were lucky to get in when we did, but I didn't realize how lucky until I saw the paper today.  Out of the 4 orthopedic doctors in our area, 2 are leaving the island, one is planning on leaving in the near future and the doctor that did WE's arm is going on a 6 month sabbatical soon for education enhancement.  Unless we get some new doctors to the island soon, we'll have to fly to Oahu to get any orthopedic work done.  Sometimes I feel like our island is slowly dying.  I guess I feel like Jimmy Buffet sometimes:

I don' know  -  I don' know  - I don' know where I'm a gonna go when the volcano blows

Only it's not the volcano that's going to ruin the island, it's the economy