[Keith Tedford]

Back in the early spring of 2002 I started having chest pains when exerting myself. I've been known to do that once in a while. With the speed of our system an attempted angioplasty wasn't performed until late in the fall. By then the artery was completely blocked. Fortunately for me, the heart had created a bypass artery on its own. Didn't know that happened before. I might be pushing up daisies by now if it hadn't. Lineups for treatments are so long that people are being shipped south of the border to Buffalo and other places to get emergency surgery done.....at the extra cost to our health care system. Here in Peterborough, they are tearing down a perfectly good hospital that was built in 1950 so that they can build a new one. Like anything government run, they can't seem to spend enough money. Perhaps they should tear down every house in town that was built before 1950. That might get a few people's attention. Shouldn't complain too much though. We don't lose everything if we get sick. Something to be said for that. Of courser we are one of the highest taxed population in the world. Wonder why?