crazzzymolly: I HATE THE INCOMPETENT MEDICAL SYSTEM WE HAVE IN THE COUNTRY , I have lost a 23 year old friend from breast cancer 10 months ago leaving an 8 year old son motherless , because they opened her up said it was too virulent a lump the doctor closed her up LEAVING it there and didn't get her another appointment to have it removed for 8 weeks, consequently it ran through her body like wild fire. Her mother was also diagnosed with cancer around the same time and she has had to wait so long for treatment she is not going to make it to Christmas two people from the same family in one year. MY best friend and her lovely daughter, My prayers will be for them forever
It's not only this country Molly! My Dad (Oracle, Az) fell and broke his neck while going to feed his horses. 86yrs young, full faculties, ran his own dude ranch. When the paramedics came, he said he wanted to "go peacefully, by myself". When they arrived at the Veterans Hosp in Tuscon, he was intubated, operated on, given a PEG (tube in the abdomen for feeding), a tracheotomy for breathing.
I am so ANGRY!!! NO respect for dying wishes. No respect for the human being he was. NO RESPECT at all!! Whatever happened to "dying with dignity"??? He was KEPT alive for another 4 months. I am a nurse and a midwife. I respect life. What he had was NOT life. It was vegetation. He did not appreciate it. I know he would have abhored it.
I'm for you Molly, why oh why are medical systems so farking incompetent and inhumane?
This is the very reason I cast my vote with euthanasia. I am not going to leave my demise to such a system
My kids know that if I reach the stage where I'll end up in a nursing home or will be incompetent myself, that it's the end of the line for me. We have discussed this openly and thoroughly and they understand where I'm coming from. I have given them free opportunities to voice their opposition and have had none.
My thoughts, prayers, love and blessings are with everyone who has lost someone; whether physically, emotionally or otherwise.
LIGHT AND LOVE, PEOPLE