Hi Bigmamma, glad you are ok again. Lots of love to you from RATTER and me XXX. The following did actually happen many years ago. When I first heard this story I burst into hysterics thinking it was a joke:
A major European airline I won�t mention by name has staff stationed in Saudi Arabia. If one of the staff became ill, the company policy is to fly one of the company doctors out to see to their needs. The Rhiad Area Manager fell ill with appendicitis, so the doc flew to his aid, performed the op without complications at a local Saudi hospital and told the patient that he could return to his flat as soon as the blood tests showed up ok. A few days later a porter wheeled the patient, on his bed, up to the 5th floor for his blood tests. Test were done, all was fine, so the porter wheeled him back to the lift to take him back to the ward. Porter presses button for lift, lift door opens, porter shoves the patient�s bed (incl. patient) into the lift ��� only that there was no lift there! The lift was still on the ground floor! So you see bigmamma, you got away lightly! :o)