Being Old Has to Suck
Ian @ August 10, 2008 # One Comment
Do we owe our parents in their later years? I wonder at times what goes on, in people’s mind when they shuffle their parents off to a retirement home, instead of taking them home with them? I know it isn’t easy, damn difficult at times too, but then they didn’t seem to mind when they were taking care of us? At 91, what do they think of, are they contemplating death, or just trying to manage with the day to day chore of lifting their feet up and taking a step?
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The Search Continues
Ian @ May 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
What are Doctors so afraid of? I mean what is with the endless ream of paper they require, just to determine if they want you for a patient? To begin with, not like they pay us to be a patient, but we pay them. Surely they should be the one’s applying to us, for the opportunity to serve us, but obviously it isn’t that way anymore.
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Health Care Follow Up
Ian @ May 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I wonder, if a Doctor or Nurse today was to suddenly become a person of 80 or 90, would they be satisfied with the care of their co-workers? Would they be satisfied with the level of care they would get from themselves? Somehow, I don’t believe they can see beyond the next paycheck, or the next vacation they are to go on. I really wonder, what happened to the concept of ‘doing no harm’ that is supposed to be the foundation of the Medical Profession? Hell, is it a profession anymore, or just a job, with perks?
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Universal Health Care
Ian @ May 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I am so pissed with Doctors, Nurses, and all these other health care professionals, who don’t give a rat’s ass about the patient, only about how much they can soak the system for. It isn’t about health care, unless you are young. Forget about getting respect, if you are in your eighties or nineties, to them you are as good as dead, so they don’t care. That is what Bush, Mulroney and the so called conservatives of today have created. Not real family values, of honor, of trust, of faith, but one of convenience, one of making money at all costs, including the cost of compassion, charity, and humanity.
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Choosing a Doctor
Ian @ April 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I have to say, I believe in Universal Health Care, but you know, it should be about the Patients, not about the Health Care workers. It should be about us being comfortable with a Physician, about being able to discuss with them the issues, not have them limit their time. Now they are wanting applications to approve prior to even considering seeing a patient? I don’t know, but this is nuts, specially when we are the one’s paying. After all, it comes from our taxes.
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Home Care Nursing
Ian @ September 13, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Seriously, I mean why bother? Both nurses asked numerous questions that had been discussed and recorded at the beginning. So why continue to ask the same questions over and over again? Do they think the initial reports were lies or something? Fact is, in watching the two recent nurses, I have come to the obvious conclussion. They simply didn’t do their homework. They DIDN’T READ the previous notes.
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Interesting Comparison
Ian @ July 23, 2006 # No Comment Yet
But what is interesting is that he bought a Maytag and in the instructions or fact sheet it lists two energy numbers. One for the USA and a higher number for Canada as being the ideal numbers set out by the respective governments. What caught us both was that the optimum number for Canada is higher than for the USA.
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Old Age Sucks
Ian @ June 26, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Seriously, when this shit happens you sure do question things a bit. Is there a God or is there a Heaven and what if the religious nuts are right and I am the sinner not them? Then where do things stand?
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Everwood Is Over
Ian @ June 5, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Sure the actors they had were pretty cute too, but it went beyond just cuteness. One Tree Hill is all about that but Everwood told a story, and it didn’t always end up in a neat little package, though tonights show did attempt to give closure to many of the on going situations. Some stated, others in typical Everwood style, understated.
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Our Newest Addition
Ian @ May 6, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Molly McGee is a 6 month old Jack Russell Terrier and is a fireball of energy. Yet a very intelligent little pup as she knows enough not to go jumping up on Mom who uses a walker. The previous owner also used a walker and the man wasn’t exactly spry either.
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4 Years Today
Ian @ April 16, 2006 # No Comment Yet
From deep in my heart I reached for his, and held it. I didn’t want him to leave and even now I wish he hadn’t. Mother misses him so much and he was such a comfort to her. But shortly after 1pm I realized that he wouldn’t be happy.
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Bouncing Back
Ian @ March 29, 2006 # No Comment Yet
In some odd way it is like you can see the draw between life and death. The way older people bounce back slower as they get closer to that crossing over. It is almost like a battle of wills and the body is slowing ebbing towards the one side, the one you don’t want them to choose. Yet in another way it is amazing to watch how the fight goes, ebbs and flows.
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It’s Just Cough Syrop
Ian @ March 27, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Now Mom is maybe lucky as she has both Dave and I to look after her. We live here, so we can easily know if she is or isn’t taking it. What about the elderly who don’t have a son or daughter living with them? What about those who are on fixed incomes like Mom? Will they buy the cough syrop or try to tough it out?
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No Secrets
Ian @ March 20, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Married people have someone, each other. Yes when one is gone before the other it is tough, but until then at least they have each other. For the children of older people it is a struggle. You don’t share the same interests or stuff, but you have to keep on trying. Even just sitting watching a few hours of television together is a boost to an older person. They get to share something instead of being walled off in their own thoughts.
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Not A Simple Cold
Ian @ March 12, 2006 # No Comment Yet
I wonder, what will it be like for David when I am 88? Will he have that little bit of ease that I have in knowing I can dial the doctor and get his re-assurances, or will he have to deal with my fears, my old age, all alone?
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