Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
Though that might sound like a great sacrifice and very noble to some of LCF crowd, don't expect any crocodile tears, sympathy or admiratio from anyone more interested in the welfare of the child than your stand against "The Man."
What does the mother of the child have to say about any of this?
Using this great invention called the internet, I involve her in everything that goes on with her child. Before she was deployed she was car light, she knew I was going to sell my car eventually and supported me raising the kid as a car free parent
Originally Posted by
Roody
I agree the child's welfare should be first and foremost. I believe the OP already said the mother was aware and OK with it.
But why the hell do they have no rapid response medical care in this community? In my state we have volunteer fire departments that have the training and equipment to deal with medical emergencies. Not only can they transfer to the hospital much faster and safer with lights and siren, they can provide advanced treatment en route while communicating with an emergency physician.
Truthfully, if you have to drive somebody for 60 minutes to get them to a hospital ED, you might as well take them on a bike. They're probably going to die either way!
The child's welfare is my number one priority.
We have trained medics in our VFD but the ambulances come from the hospital 45 miles away, whether they have remote locations to sit at to wait for calls I don't know as I've never seen one. Like I said a few posts back, the 60 minute response time was what a neighbor told me about when I first moved here, I never had an emergency where I needed to call 911 to see how long it would take them to show up.
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I'd just like to point out that I have broke down and decided to buy a car, it'll be used mostly for business purposes but also available to cart the kid around when the bikes aren't an option. Nothing fancy but it gets
decent fuel mileage, is physically and mechanically sound, and only has 50k on it. Not bad for $3500 after taxes and fees.
