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Originally Posted by Rochard
Great day!
It's so much more than that. My brother is not legally married, and cannot give his girlfriend of fifteen years health benefits. When he was in the hospital a few months back, his girlfriend was unable to visit him for over a week - all because they didn't have that silly piece of paper.
It's funny really, because a year ago he told me there was "no reason for him to get that piece of paper". Since then he has learned exactly what that silly piece of paper means.
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Is this normal in California or was he in some kind of ICU or something? The reason I ask is that last year I spent a few days in the hospital and over the years I have visited people in the hospital and never once has anyone even questioned who I was when I visit someone or restricted visitors from seeing me. In most cases I ask for a room and walk right in regardless of my relationship to them.
The only exception was when my mom had a pretty major surgery and afterward she was in an ICU ward. They didn't ask who my brother and I were, they just told us she was limited to two visitors at a time and that they preferred if we didn't stay longer than 30 minutes at a time.