Posted by Squiggles on December 28, 2005, at 21:09:49
I was not sure whether to post this to
"grief" or here. I decided to post here
because Mabel was not my relative. Nevertheless,
I knew her from my husband's family for many
years and she used to come to our place for
brunch and afternoon crosswords and animal
petting. She was a great musician, a very
gentle, witty person, a secretary in Braille,
and blind all her life. Her last years were
at the Salvation Army where her health declined.She died December 5th.
The reason I post here is because I am so
********* off at the way the government
handled her or should i say mishandled her
case. She was in need of higher medical care
with organ failure, Alzheimer's and strokes.
They twiddled their thumbs or there was no
space -- whatever -- a higher placed citizen
would have had better care I am sure.Then there was the hospital, where I almost
walloped the nurse (one of the nurses) where
she in an ambulatory state with crumbled
pills in her mouth, they could not figure out
how to give her some water - some water please.
I was stroking her feet and and her forehead,
and the nurse said she was hot. She was cold
as ice - is this possible? Did the nurse
mean she was hot as in sexy? hot as in a babe?
at 84 years of age... ****!I am in despair over what I have seen in
our health care system, and I expect our
boomer generation can expect worse. Perhaps
the government in its infinite wisdom can
give something along the lines of "dignity" -
it may be more affordable.Squiggles
poster:Squiggles
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