What a whirlwind of activity these past two days have been. Going in for a procedure to 'trim' a heart muscle, finding out that uh uh, not enough, and need to do more and awakening to the fact that it was done, going home the next day, and then left to contemplate the enormity of what had been happening.
Today's hospitals are like factory line assemblies in many ways. The people coming in early on the day of the procedure or surgery, the repeated questions and checks on identity, and the either get out of here phenomenon or the overnite stay, many under the 23 hour 'observation' stay.
And in between, one is besieged by people pushing carts all around, taking vitals, dishing out meds, many on the wrong schedule from the patient, or a different generic, and yet, all is meant to be a good thing, dispensed with by good and hard working people. So at 5 AM I had a great discussion with the nurse, and another with the next nurse on the next shift. Everyone was willing to take the time, to hear patients out yet the work had to be done.
So many people and yet not enough for when one is deemed a fall risk then one is supposed to have an aide to help for a bathroom call or whatever, yet those same people are busy doing other things, so what to do? I had a lovely person stay with me all night and it was great, but what if one cannot pay for that or does not understand the need for it? I do not know the answer, but it is only one of the many problems that plague our health system and still, I wonder at the fact that two days after my heart was messed with, I am home in the early hours of the morning and writing my blog. The state of the world is amazing and disorienting at the same time. And I am ever so grateful to all the medical personnel, from the doctor to the assistants, to the aides, to the hospital personnel- so many people for one person's health.
And I return to the world and wonder why, if we can do all this and pretty well too, then why can we not turn our minds over to the problems of the world; why can we not weed out the 'ill' among us, those who would turn our world upside down, take away rights, harm children, demean women, minorities, the elderly, the poor, anyone who is not right up there complete with full assurance as to their own well being?
We have become ridiculous in our search for power and wealth and yesterday's crazy drop of the stock market was a prime example of what will happen if we do not get our acts straightened out. The stocks dropped along with the bonds - a weird event - and people chewed their nails as they watched the ticker tape. We have no confidence in our supposed leaders as they hypocritically try to show concern and in a nauseating act tried to show their 'courage' as Trump took off after Murkowski for her vote at the Kavanaugh session. Where the hell was this supposed determination to stand up to Trump when it was needed? These people make me sick to my stomach; perhaps we need them to go on an outing to the immigration courts and watch the little ones being asked to defend themselves and their requests for asylum!!!!
I do not know how to solve the problems of the world. What I do know is that we must change the watch, change the sentries who are supposed to guard us, change the watchdogs of democracy, for they have failed abysmally. We need to realize that there are good people out there who wish to join with others to change the look of things, to change the depths of things. So go and VOTE!!!! Take that early ballot and VOTE!!!! VOTE whenever you can get to the booth, but VOTE!!! If we stand there twiddling our thumbs things will only get worse and we will have ourselves to blame. VOTE!!!!
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