Just having a rant!!!!

[chester]

My 3 year old son was transferred from warragul hospitial to the monash hospitial in clayton last tuesday.
He has a virus called paraflu 3 and also pneumonia but the good thing is he's slowly getting better.
The part i want to rant about is the fact that i have no other choice but to drive here,which dont bother me,what does is the fact it cost's me $20 a day to park my car down here,and it's the only parking unless you leave your car on the street.
Now people visting,bringing people in for day surgery or whatever ok fair enough,but for people like myself who live along way from here and have no choice to park here for an extanded period should get a card that gives you free parking sofar it has cost me $60 and its the only parking available all other is staff which you need a swipe card to access.
And if i was to bring my patrol down i would'nt even fit in there cause of its height.
The other thing was,it was a mad rush to get down here,so the wife and i only had the clothes we had on,i went to buy a pen just a simple blue bic pen and cost me bloody $3 bucks.
Sorry guys for this it's my 5 night with next to no sleep.
cheers
chester

[Stropp]

Yeh mate sympathise with you, it's a farce that they rip people in their hour of need, hope the young fella gets better soon.

[NissanGQ4.2]

Mate, hope all goes well with your son.

Public Hospitals should have free parking, isn't it our money that builds them in the first place, same as there shouldn't be parking meters around shopping centres, councils fault there aren't enough parking spaces but will give u a parking fine for not obeying there rules.

[MC97GQ]

Hey Chester,

Mate I'm glad to hear that the young bloke is on the mend, I can understand the reason for your frustration, It is bloody rude when you are placed in these situations and not only have the cost to travel to these places in the first place but then have the additional cost of parking.

As if the govvers doesn't get enough money out of us in the first place, Unfortunately our health care system is in such decline it is not funny.

Anyway mate try to get some sleep and hopefully you'll get back home soon,

Good luck with it all

Mark

[threedogs]

Good to hear the little fella is getting better,

Big bucks in car parks now, a Big Wig from Toyota invited me to tea at the Hilton up at Tullamarine Airport
I jumped at the offer, wow free feed, cost me $51 to get out of the carpark for 3 hrs parking, free feed ,yeah right
Think most are now privately owned

[Sir Roofy]

glad the little bloke is comming good shame you couldnt be seen local
if you need anything let us know

[Winnie]

Glad to hear your young fella is getting better. Yeah the parking fees are criminal, especially when you're going through something like that.

DIAL-A-TAP

[Bloodyaussie]

I hear your pain and could also rant about my own experiences but this is your rant!!!

Glad your little one is ok mate, thats what makes the other things harder to deal with when you have to deal with these stressful situations and then get these unnecessary stresses compounded on top!!!!

You'll be home soon looking back.

[Dhuck]

Hope the young fella gets well soon mate. As for the parking, I am with you. I had to go in to the City a few weeks back. was at this particular site for less than an hour and cost me $36

[Bigrig]

Sincerely glad the young fella is on the road to recovery mate - having a child in hospital is heart wrenching enough.

As for the parking ... it's all been said ...