Caryn
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did not have cell phone for yrs. now land line -battery?- removed. so can't even call 911. just needed to have this heard by someone.
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Dekrator48
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Caryn,
Sorry that you are in this situation.
I think that many cellphones are made to be able to call 911 from, even if you have no service plan.
I know you said you haven't had a cell phone for years, but you may want to check with your friends and family to see if one of them has a cell phone that they are no longer using that you can charge and have for calling 911 if necessary.
I'm confused about why you no longer have the land line phone. Was the battery removed? or does it need a new battery?
Perhaps you can get a new battery, or just a new cheap landline phone, which in some cases may be cheaper than a battery.
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Dekrator48
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Don't forget about Skype too.
You can call your friends/family on a video call if they also have Skype downloaded on their computer.
-------------------- The fibromyalgia I've had for 32 years was an undiagnosed Lyme symptom.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future". -Jeremiah 29:11 Posts: 6076 | From Pennsylvania, USA | Registered: Nov 2008
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Caryn,
What someone said here: Any basic cellphone should be able to call 911 without a calling plan. I think you have to make sure the GPS locator setting is set to 'on' but it should work.
One last thing: Outside of skype, if you get or have a gmail account, you can set up a gmail account with a Google Voice number so you can call out and receive calls through your computer. The voicemail is free and you can play it on your computer.
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Caryn
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i don't have a cell phone. i did have a gmail account, but did not use it and someone scooped my name. does not stop me from taking out another account however. but not to sound too needy, i guess i am old now and do not understand - voicemail? what is that and how does it work?
as for real family and friends, this would not have happened to me if i actually did have those.
and darling hubby who finnally agreed to testing and tested pos by PCR in 2003, behind my back had our current dr do a lyme test and it was of course negative, so he believes himself negative. his skin cancer and now alopecia areata are "real" - my losing hair and having no hair on my body are not, and, me almost dying and seriously suffering are not because drs like the highly regarded UPENN drs say not much is wrong with me.
obviously, he also has big time neuro-psych lyme, but coming from a "perfect" family who never accepted me because i am not the same religion - was not accepted as someone they have to care for.
so i have been kept isolated and after some but not complete treatment from dr J, our children were taught i am a weirdo from "lyme-cult". so very alone. isolated.
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