It's nice to hear the GOOD...

Hey guys!
Joey asked me to post the following letter which he received yesterday from a new TLC Medical BiPAP patient. In a business where only the "negatives" usually make it to his hear (if we happen to mess things up -which we all know NEVER happens!!... )- it is just refreshing that someone stopped and sang our praises! We are a great TEAM, and need to remember that we bless others when we take time and help them with their personal troubles. Go Emilee and Casey!!!! And thanks to everyone else, too- we know you are making a big difference in these people's lives!
~Dana

Mr., Joey Lankford
Please allow me to share my last three days with you.
My bipap machine stopped working on a trip to Baltimore on Monday night. It was the first time in 4 years that I have not had my mask on and I was afraid of going to sleep and not waking up.
I did my sleep study four years ago in Louisville Ky and have not needed anything since moving to Spring Hill in Aug of '06. I did a Google search for Medical supplies and TLC came up. I did not know what I was getting into. I did not know that you needed a prescription from my MD to get supplies. Just a little more back ground to my story. With my in-laws, we owned a Christian Book Store in Louisville. I understand the challenges of the "family business".

I contacted your Franklin office and spoke to Emilee Puckett. After giving her my info with address, she informed me that the Columbia office covered Spring Hill. I assumed I would need to call that office and go through all this again. WOW WAS I WRONG. Emilee faxed/emailed all the info to Casey Cantrell and said Casey would call me soon. AND SHE DID.

I have never, in my 25 years of professional life had the level of service I received from your staff. I was a challenge, and your staff was amazing.
I also spoke with another employee at Columbia and I'm sorry I can't recall her name. All three went way beyond to put me at ease.
I have always said that my employees are a reflection of me.
I have never met you but I believe you and your family are great people. Your father and you have done a marvelous job with TLC.
I have been working for myself for the last 16 years, but I would work for your family in a heart beat.

Job well done.

peace
Randy Maricle
Maricle Management Group

You are invited...

...to come to my Christmas contata at Judson Baptist Church. There are 2 dates that are available for you to come-December 13 & 14 at 6:00 p.m. It is open to the public and you don't have to get tickets or anything, but I would strongly suggest getting there early.

I sing with my church choir and for the past few months we have been working on our music and so has our orchestra. The program is called "I Have Seen the Light" and I really believe it is going to be amazing.

Here is the address and map. I hope to see you all there. Look for me in the Alto section, which is on the right!

Judson Baptist Church

4900 Franklin Road

Nashville, TN 37220

If you have any questions please feel free to email me: epuckett@tlcmedical.cc
Hope to see you all there!
Emilee

WE ARE THANKFUL...

Hey guys!

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and I received a wonderful email today from a friend of our family, Michael Ray, who reminded me of how much I have to be thankful for this season. It got me to thinking how wonderful it would be if we could all just take a second and think of just ONE thing we are THANKFUL for today.... and share it on our blog. I think so often we get so busy in the hustle and bustle of THANKSGIVING DAY that we forget to actually STOP and BE thankful...and GIVE thanks, to the GIVER of all that we have. We just get used to being blessed that we don't realize there are others out there who are suffering, hungry, sick, unable to enjoy sight and sounds and life! We are tremendously blessed by God! Let us NOT forget to give thanks today, tomorrow...and each day!

“In everything, give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”
~I Thessalonians 5:18

I hope you all have a wonderful day with your families tomorrow!

Love,

Dana A

Christmas Party

Hello All!

We are FAST approaching this holiday season, and with that in mind, we have been praying about and discussing date possibilities for the TLC Christmas party this year. In doing this, we have decided, instead, to do something different. In a time when our economy is suffering and people are hurting, we have decided to take the money we would normally spend and give it away.

1.) We will be giving some of it to the Nashville Rescue Mission to feed the homeless during this holiday season. Because we also recognize that giving money is only ½ of what is needed, I have requested date options for us to go serve the homeless ourselves. I will be following up with these date options the first of next week so you can make plans to participate with us in this opportunity.
2.) I have requested that each tech give us 2 names of patients that they come in contact with that could us a helping hand. We will be getting food baskets together for these people and going with the techs to present these baskets to these needy patients. We will try to coordinate these delivery times so that others in the TLC family can participate in the delivery. I will forward more info within the next week on these opportunities as well.

Thanks to each and every one of you for all you do here at TLC. I am personally very thankful for the opportunity I have to work with some of the greatest people anywhere. Please be praying for us as we finalize the details of the above mentioned items. I will be in contact soon with more detail. Thanks again for everything.

Joey Lankford

Go Monty!!!!

Lets all pray for Monty's victory today............

Happy Halloween

ellie said......

Hi everybody. It's Halloween!!!! and I love it. I have a lot of fun this time of the year and I love this time when the trees start to turn such beauiful colors and the air is cool and crisp. God has a way with making everything so bright and viberant with the changing of the season.

I too had a birthday this week, however, I am not telling which number it was.

I hope everybody has a fantastic Halloween tonight and a great weekend!!!


BBBBBOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

Oh and by the way........ ROLL TIDE ROLL!!!!!!

The Big 3-0

Hi my name is Jenny and I'm officially old!!!! (Well not really but it sure sounds weird to say that I'm 30.) So what did I do to celebrate this monumental occasion in my life you might ask? Well, my hubby planned a surprise weekend get-away in Chattanooga for us. (If you don't know my hubby, which most of you don't, you can not fully appreciate how monumental that was in and of itself. He's a) not very romantic at all and b) definitely not a planner.) I was so stinkin' excited and proud of him when he finally told me on Friday I could barely contain myself. So here is goes..the run down of our weekend:

First stop...the most romantic lunch ever.

The we were off to Rock City. Neither of us had been there since we were kiddos and man was it beautiful this time of year. (Which he knew I would love...aka back to the whole planning thing.)

Then we went down into the Earth to see the famed Ruby Falls. He had never been here so it was neat to explore it with him for the first time. He, of course, wanted to crawl in the all the crevices that were off limits. Thank goodness they don't supply with you those little lights you can put on like a hat or I might of lost him in there.

We checked in to our room at the Chattanoogan, which was great and then headed off to dinner for some Blue Orleans Creole. YUMMY!!!!

Being the good luvin' wife that I am, after dinner we found a local hang out and watched the misery that was known as the UT game. (Thankfully he got fed up with it and we went back to the hotel.)

Sunday morning we woke up to breakfast and massages.....what more could a girl ask for. Then it was off to the Aquarium. We hadn't been there since they had added on and it was a great time.

As far as we were concerned, it was a birthday done right and it was over. But then on Monday, the party continued. Thanks everyone in the office I was, again, surprised by a rousing rendition of Happy Birthday right before lunch and this delicious cake...thanks for thinking of my guys. YOU'RE THE BEST!!!

I will have to admit that this was one of my favorite birthday's yet. If it is any indication of what lies ahead in my 30s, then bring them on!!!!!