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anonymous

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I was just wondering where everyone lived, in the city or country. Right now we live close to the city but not in the city and it is about 15-20 minutes from childrens where our pulmonary drs are. My husband wants to move out in the country and it would take us about 45 minutes to get there. I am worried because what if something happened? Out there who knows how long it would take someone to get to our house if I needed them( like an ambulance or something) and what if one of them were in the hospital? We couldnt just switch who is up there because it is such a long drive. I would love to be out in the country and I think it would be better for my babies lungs but I am so scared to be so far away from everything! What do you think? It is so far out because of money and land issues. That is where our builder can build to be within our price range. We cant just buy. They have special things they can do for us, but it has to be out that far.

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Not really off-topic because you're asking about being too far from the hospital and docs! We live in the pseudo-country....small town about 40 minutes north of New Haven Connecticut. Emily goes to Yale New Haven Children's Hospital, but we have never really had a problem getting there in an emergency. We call an ambulance for real emergencies and the EMTs take care of her until we get there. Otherwise we get in the care and make the drive. It's not so bad and we get to be where there is cleaner air and parks, less pollution and nicer people. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0">
 
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AngieM

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We live in a rural community, population 1700, in Montana. Hayleys CF clinic is 80 miles away in Billings. (1 hr 15min drive) Her Cf docs are from Denver and come to Billings every 3 mths. She was just hospitalized for the first time in 7 years (in for a tuneup which also led to diagnosing diabetes -CFRD) She was in hospital in Billings for 12 days. Mom and Dad took turns sleeping in hospital; right in the room w/ Hayley. When Hayley is getting sick (cold) she goes to the docs here in our town. Luckily she hasn't had problems before this. (first tune up) . I know when she was in the hospital in Billings the Denver docs were calling all the shots. My husband feels that if shes having problems that cant be handled in Billings then we would go to Denver. (10 hrs away) The tune up in Billings went well and as I said the Denver Docs were in charge (via telephone). My husband has always felt that one plus of living in a small town is the school. All the kids have grown up knowing Hayley has CF; she gets her enzymes from the teacher at lunch. Is like No Big Deal, shes not treated differently. She is a VERY energetic 4th grader who plays basketball, soccer and softball. Shes a regular kid who just has to do her vest, pills, nebs etc. (I love it when a friend sleeps over and she does her vest in front of them. I would think that some kids would be emabarassed. ) Sorry I seem to be getting off track... I too like that she is living in a place with CLEAN air!! Hope this helped.

Angie Stepmom to Hayley 10yrs CF/CFRD
 
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anonymous

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I live in the city (Charleston, our state capital) that is as assuming "cities" in West Virginia can be referred to as such.... My CF doctor however is 2 1/2 hours away, in a smaller "city” where the WVU hospital is located. I would love the solitude of the country but can't leave the convenience of the big town.


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anonymous

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My husband who has CF, grew up in the city about 20-30 minutes away from his CF doctors. When he went away to college at 20 we moved to a small town that was in the country. There was a local hospital with about 50 employees for day and night shift, and a doctors office but his CF doctor was more than 2 hours away, but I must say that his lung functions seemed to improve being away from a city (seattle, WA) and all the smog, smoking and such. We did discover that he had hay fever but that was alleviated by some allergy medications. Hey enjoyed being "out there" as well because as I mentioned above, there weren't people smoking all over the place (small town=your own rules and generally more considerate people), and all the pollutants that seem more abundant in a city.

Julie (wife to Mark 24w/CF)
 
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anonymous

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We too are rural. Our primary care Dr is 45 miles away. The CF Care center and where my kids are hospitalized is 250 miles away we go there at least every 3 months. We've been known to easily put over 1000 miles on the car when a tune-up is neccessary. I wouldn't think moving an hour away from the hospital is any trouble.
 
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anonymous

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When Kait was born and diagnosed we lived 15 min. from the CF clinic, we moved to the country 5 years ago and now are 45 min. to 1 hr. away from the CF clinic and have never had any trouble! We just make the drive on clinic days and when she is sick.

Good Luck with your decision.

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anonymous

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I live on an island. In the San Juan, in Washington State. We have to take a fairy to get to the main land everytime we need to go any where. We need to be in the fairy landing 1 hr. before in the off season and sometimes 2 hrs. in the summer season. The frist fairy that leave the island is 6am. The fairy takes any where from 1:15 to 2hrs. and it takes 1 1/2 to drive on a good day to drive to Children Hospital in Seattle.If anything happened we could be med flight off the island. I love it hear. Everyone always tell us that we need to move closer to Childrens, But it is a small town where everyone knows everyone and keep there eyes out for everyone children.So driving 45 min to get to the Hospital is nothing to me.
 
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