PLAN C

  I have just read the most ridiculous yet very telling and extremely frightening article re a Plan C. What for? For the failed attempts to reinstate Trump. Obviously, the insane alarm rings loud, but does anyone understand that there is a large iceberg beneath that piece of chilling information. After all the corruption, dangerous incompetence and treasonous planning and active involvement, these people maintain support of Trump and all he stands for. The same man who, if ever given any other opportunities for control, would remove the right of free speech which allows them to blather on and on.

Plan C is a plan for when all else has failed. It is as ridiculous as the other article I read this morning which refers to survival after a nuclear blast. What the hell!!!! How about surviving our hostile world of today. Again, leaders of powerful nations shouting, pushing us to the brink of an extremely fragile cliff, the ground crumbling beneath our feet. A vicious war by proxy destroys a nation, cities crumbled to rubble. A war of frontlines even on the homefront, disastrous population loss, and children damaged forever by their circumstances. Victory? No, there are only losers in this situation. Plan C, anyone?

Meanwhile, we are looking for our own Plan C. We wonder whether people realize how lacking our health system is, how overburdened, how shocking its abilities to actually heal those with more complicated issues than a standard infection or broken bone. Funds are cut, even as present funding is insufficient. 

The medical personnel struggle mightily to aid their patients, but many times their hands are tied. The machine they need is elsewhere, in another city. A Hobbesian choice - give the patient a secondary tool with which to attack the tumor, or send them away, disrupting families even more in an already stressed situation. Or the medications are so out of sight in cost and availability that they might as well not exist.

These are the needs of the community. The people do not need another new weapon of war. The nations of the world need new leadership, should toss out the warmongers, the autocrats, the fascists, cut the defense budget as peace will reign. Instead, the monies can be sent and spent on health care, on social care, on bettering the lives of so many. Unless one is unfortunately tapped on the shoulder by intense medical need, one simply does not realize how inadequate are the workings of our health system.

 To say, well, it is better than other countries - irrelevant. That is comparable to when my Bubbie would say when I refused to eat - "The children in China are starving." Why would that make me eat? How would that help those starving children? My offer to mail them my unwanted food was not well received! Nor should we have to mail our ill elsewhere, adding yet another layer of concern to a fiercely fought battle. Plan C is wrong - Plan A is the one needed, with Plan B a distant thought.

Severe, life-threatening illness is awful. No one should ever have to face it. Certainly, young people should not be threatened by its presence and face struggles for survival without the best tools available - to all. Our family blesses the wonderful staff of University of Pittsburgh Children's Hospital and their ability and efforts above and beyond to get Yitzy all that he needs in this life-threatening war he fights, along with the staff of cooperating hospitals. However, how much better for all would it be if the availability was not an issue and energies could be expended elsewhere??

Fighting cancer is exhaustive. It is frightening. Moreso when the victim is a child, confused as to what is happening and why? Why. Called out in moments of pain and nausea. Called out in a voice laden with tears. Called out as his hair falls out. Called out by his family who would take on his pain themselves, away from Yitzy. 

Instead, they sit there, helpless to take away that pain, that confusion, that emotional upheaval and turmoil of heart and soul. They cry out of sight, call and text all day long, anxious for tidbits of hope and less pain or nausea, put on an optimistic front for Yitzy and pray, along with the blessed thousands of kind and caring souls, who join us in praying for his healing - total and complete.

No, no Plan C for us. Only Plan A. 

No time for attention to dangerous fools. 

Only time and attention to the needs of Yitzy and his family.

 Only time for his complete healing.

HEAL YITZY!

May he be granted refuah shelaymah bimheyrah beyameinu. 

May he be granted a timely and complete healing.

May Hashem hear all our voices raised in prayer. 

Amen. Amen