Kay writes about the experience she and her husband had that put her on the highway returning to West Maui in the dark, in the early morning hours when she was too tired to drive. She writes: "Boy, oh, boy do you ever need a hospital in the Lahaina area. My husband had taken a bad fall getting out of the shower in on Hawaii (the big Island). We went to an urgent care center there and had all kinds of x-rays done there too.
" We got to Maui and stayed at the beautiful Royal Lahaina Hotel. My husband got to feeling really bad the first night so the hotel told me to take him to the doctor next to the Westin Hotel. We went there, but the doctor felt that he needed a CT scan. " So we had to drive over 45 minutes to the hospital not far from the airport. It is so hard to drive in the dark in a strange area to a building I had never been to in my life. We made it ok, but it sure would be nice to have a hospital in the hotel area or Lahaina. It is well over due!
"The hospital we went to kept my husband over night and it was a terrible experience for him, but that is another story. Meanwhile I had to drive all the way back to our hotel. It was after 1 a.m. when I started back to the hotel. I was very tired and shouldn't have been driving that late. Please take these personal experiences seriously when you consider building the new hospital.
It is so-o badly needed in the area. We love Maui and would love to come back again."
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