Ok, got barely 5 hours under my belt. Maternal Unit returned at 3 am to say that grandmother is fine. Just had an allergic reaction to some medication that cause some swelling and redness to lymph nodes and they placed here in just for fun and legal issues of course.
And here comes my rant, because people are assholes.
I'm one to rarely and I mean rarely worry about the lives of millionaires, just for the fact that I really and genuinely don't give a flying fuck. Kanye and Snookie? My mind shuts down until I can get away from the source of wasted brain cells. Bill Gates and Warren Buffet? I care for the fact that they're humanists and they're doing something for society that their wealth allows them. Stephen Fry, George Takei, and C.K. Louis? They make me happy in their ways, but I don't connect with their lives unless its something great they're doing. You get my point. Class hierarchy has it's privileges and one of them is not me caring. You can afford healthcare that I can never get in any way so I think you'll be ok.
My point? I know some of you are complaining, but I'm building my case. I honestly do not care about the British Royal family. I really don't, but my point comes in with them. You have two princes that I'm assuming are in their late 20's to mid 30's. They're in line for the throne. But their father has been waiting for that privilege since the 70's. He's waiting on the Queen to kick the bucket to take over and yet you see her up and running. She's healthy, intellectually awake and spry not just because she's a monarch, but because she has the best medical conditions to support life and she is living very damn well. So bloody well that even her mother, a woman in her upper 90's and pushing 100 soon is still healthy and moving. Yes, she has fallen and the such and they still bring her back. People send their well wishes and this woman who has to point in succession of power is living pretty damn well. The queen is doing pretty damn well. You'd think if there is anyone who should be able to die and not be brought back it the Queen, right. I mean, she lived enough.
Now, right now I know you are thinking, "Wow, you are an ass". I know, right? No matter how bad it is you'd think that this woman who has lived quite damn well and hell if anything goes bad they should just let the old girl die. I mean it would be cruel to bring the old girl back. Asshole, right? Well, I'm not describing the Queen or Queen Mother. I'm talking about my grandmother. A woman who has done so much with her life and in many ways the surgeries she had that most people said would kill her 10 years ago has made her life much better. She's not diabetic, she's stronger and at a healthy weight compared with my Uncles family. She's growing hair as well as mentally awake compared to all the drugs they gave her to balance this or that. If anything she's bored until my family comes in to see her every day. She sits there among old people who sit in their urine, most neglected and assumed not worth the trouble. She is the outlier. She is regaining her strength from the last medical debacle and is worked out daily to the point that she can speak, sit up on her won and communicate with other around her willing to listen.
And yet, if something goes wrong they want us not to resuscitate. She's old. Almost 90. She lived enough. She's suffering. The more they talk the more I am wondering about these "death panels" that Palin made nose about, but I know damn well it's just bad doctors. The woman even communicates with others, but that is not a worthy medium. Since she can not stand on her own she is.....on her way out. So I tell my Maternal Unit, who not only exercise her, but also works on her flexibility to make her stand. It's something that is going to tire her out, make her shake, and even complain with soreness, but in truth until is mobile no one is going to be on a doctors "oh well" list. We screw up, oh well. She is not coming out of sedation as well? Oh well. Seriously? If something happened, bring her back. If she is brain dead or suffering then the family will do what is right, but getting fucking lectured because we want her to live BECAUSE SHE WANT'S TO LIVE......GO FUCKING FIG, NO? She is not on tubes and machines. she is on oxygen and we are trying everything to get her off it. She is getting more attention from her family that her nurses and doctors. So much that they're looking bad, especially on how they treat other patients. Come on, people. This is life we are talking about.
So no, I'm not going to sign a paper that says you fucked up your math? Oh well. In fact, I want to make sure that their math is solid. Just because she is old does not mean we are going to plant a vegetable. It does not make us the idiots who kept their daughter on life support until they had to take her off only to discover that she was brain dead for at least a decade. We want a woman who is bored, BORED, to have a decent life as she sees fit. If she said she wants to die, I'm more than ready to offer her options. If she said that she wants to live I'm also willing to see what we can do. But she is old so...............she's old. No. Not just no, but fuck you. This is why the last doctor got slammed through a wall, assuming that I do not know what bacterial tests they were doing and assume I'm a thug. Well, you are half right, fucker.
So, no. I'm not ok with this bullshit and have made more than enough threat to show up and have a talk once more. Not only do I know how to diagnose disease, but I know the kind of bullshit that makes it important to take someone home from the hospital before they get worse. This is about life. And life is precious, especially when the person living it is not being heard. Stop this shit. Wealth should not be a factor on who should and should not be listen to about their own life.
This is why I'm not a doctor. This is also why I automatically love nurse. They will save you and know your pain. Everyone is save the embryos, but your grandmother is, you know......old.
Don't be food, people. There are others who want to serve you up.
Shit like this.
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