A Medical Experience

This is not about a news article as my others have been. It is a personal experience I endured with my client who I care for about four days a week. One of my duties is to take her to her doctor appointments. The woman is 79 years old who had a stroke three years ago and a fall that broke her ankle a year ago. I took her on after her ankle healed. I should add I am a skeptic of everyone and everything including the entire medical industry.
The first appointment we made with her ankle specialist was because her ankle hurt her when she walked. That appointment resulted in a $100.00 ankle brace to hold the ankle in place during her free physical therapy which lasted only a month before she had to pay $39.00 a month and I have to guide her during this. I have now become a physical therapist! I could already see a pattern. The doctor then recommended she see the stroke specialist after we complained that her hip on the same side as her once broken but still painful ankle is. My first question was 'What could a stroke specialist do three years after the fact for her aching thigh?' He did not know but better to find out if anything could be done. If something could be done she would know. I now thought this was an entire waste of time.
So now she, and two health insurance companies, has paid for a doctor appointment, ankle bracelet, physical therapy and soon a second doctor.
Now the second doctor. This doctor walks in saying she doesn't know why the ankle doctor referred her but let's take a look and see. I feel better already! She pushed and poked and asked if she was still in physical therapy. Yes. "Well, there is nothing I can do but sometimes a stroke victim can have small improvements up to five years after a stroke so continue to do physical therapy." Really? That's it? So I said "Her hip hurts her. This was not caused by the stroke but after her fall. 'She doesn't recall if they x-rayed anything other than her ankle' The specialist glanced at the computer saying she did not see where they x-rayed the hip but it could be her muscle rubbing against a bone and she could receive cortisone shots. These shots however can cause a spike in sugar and she does have diabetes....but we can give her the shots. (What? Really?) Then she decides we should x-ray her hip and see if it's something else, could be bruising after all.
While waiting for someone to bring her to the x-ray room I am also thinking. Now we have the cost of the ankle doctor, ankle brace, physical therapy, stroke specialist doctor, and an x-ray. Possibly leading to cortisone shots which leads to a visit to the sugar doctor and depending on what they decide...my imagination goes nuts thinking they will give her a sugar effecting pill that will effect her blood pressure, another pill for blood pressure that will cause heart trouble, another pill for the heart that will cause kidney failure and so we need a pill for the kidneys .....and on and on we go. Plus don't forget the follow ups.
I took her out of there and told her we will consult the third doctor, her regular physician, who started all this to begin with. FUCKED UP BULLSHIT!
Think about this. Really think about one simple recommendation from her regular doctor over a minor complaint about her sore ankle and where it took us, so far. How much money passes through the medical industry on all levels. I have elderly clients that take over 20 pills a day for all sorts of imperfections. One pill usually causes a reaction that results in another pill that causes a reaction that results in 20 pills a day until death. And the major payer is....the one who will die. Everyone else lives and pays their mortgage.
If I am ever ill with a disease, I fully expect to die. But, I promise I am not paying anyone's mortgage. I'll just accept the inevitable and save myself the hype, aggravation and false hope.
Moral of the story....go holistic and don't fall for everything you're doctor tell you.

Dealing with the cops

If drug addicts knew how much drugs reduce your intelligence and coherence maybe they would stop. Here is a girl who somehow has a cell phone number of a cop who busted her previously and by pure happenstance she calls him. Rule number one: Do not do drugs if you're dealing. Rule number Two: When dealing drugs get rid of all officer of the laws numbers. Rule number three: Find out who is on the other end of the phone that you are calling, be 100% sure you know who your talking to. This woman should have taken a course in this.
So heroin addicted Renea calls a number that turns out to be a cop unbeknownst to her who was ready to make use of this golden opportunity that rang his house, literally, and set the deal up. Then of course she was arrested. The end.
I've heard many similar crazy stories , like the woman who gave money to a drug dealer only to receive no drugs. What does she do? She calls the cops of course. She leads them to the door across the hall to the apartment of her dealer and demands money or the drugs she purchased, that is a cops job after all isn't it? To right the wrong, to rectify the damage caused, to gosh darn it 'GET MY DRUGS'  I often wonder what happened to that crazy lady and if she is still alive today. I suggest the future drug addict, drug dealing scum of the earth take a course before embarking on this enterprise. Educate yourself on the basic rules of drug dealing. I'm sure one lives across the hall from you right now that can mentor your ambitions. Best of luck to all the crazy ladies of the hood.

Today's list of someone's neighbors activities

When did the world become so cold and stupid? This woman lives next to someone, maybe you. One must wonder where the mummy dog and fellow siblings to this lone newborn of only two weeks is. This puppy was so young and vulnerable that it had not even opened the eyes yet to see a hazy glimpse of the world, and sadly it never would. This woman who must be one of the dumbest people on earth attempted to board a plane with this tiny tot in her carry on bag. She was caught, of course. How in this day and age of airport security did she think she could pull this off?  So what does she do? A dilemma to say the least. Now there are a lot of people at an airport and not everyone is there to catch a plane out, some are flying in and many people are waiting for others or dropping them off. What would be the odds she could have handed this tiny pup to someone, especially if she told them her intent if someone did not take the little puppy? But did she attempt this before she does the unthinkable? Feeling trapped and alone like a single mom of today's end times she does what many parents have done,  she drowned the puppy in the airport bathroom! Imagine that! Let us hope her neighbors don't offer her any puppies they might have to give away when she is released from jail, It appears she missed that flight after all and this puppy death is truly and ultimately a complete waste of precious life. HERE

Many neighbors we have has teenagers in their family and somehow in these end days we are no longer surprised much by what we have found them capable of doing. So when a story about a young 16 year old meeting another boy close to his age for an apparent drug deal that goes horribly wrong ending in the shooting death of the dealer, I guess we say 'what a shame' but not all that surprised, it happens everyday. But to look at this kid who really looks twelve and not sixteen, innocent boy face who acted like a mean gang member I am surprised for some reason. My big question is not how a boy shot another boy but where did he get the gun? Older brother, incompetent dad or a friend? They don't say. Maybe his older sister knew where to get a gun since she decided to threaten a witness to this crime in an effort to help her baby brother. Seems like the whole family has been raised aggressors. You would think the civilized society are just like a pack of wolves pushing their weight around like a survival of the fittest living in a jungle. Well, these are someones siblings of a neighbor that may live near you. Considering all they do in this one situation it probably isn't the first indication they are bad apples. Their neighbors are probably glad the neighbor brats are out of the neighborhood for awhile. HERE

Black out

This is simple, short and weird. If you are going to drink excessively and have a safe way home, or walk, you might think about having a friend go with you, so you don't get a DUI or hit by a car on the side of the road or end up with burglary charge! That's what happened to Nicole Lynn when she went out one night to forget the problems of her week or start her weekend. What ever her reason I bet she never suspected she would land herself in jail that night for burglary. Imagine the surprise if she never stole a thing in her life!
Apparently blacking out can mean many things like waking up with a stranger thinking 'Did I go home with him? Who the heck is this guy next to me?' or waking up in a strange house full of passed out people everywhere thinking 'How did I get here' But this poor girl did more at that moment when she was so close to safety. I think. They don't tell how far from home she was though I suspect somewhere nearby, perhaps only a house or two away.
So close yet so far doesn't cut with cops and the excuse 'I blacked out and don't remember anything' doesn't cut it with cops or homeowners either. But that seems to be what happened since nothing was stolen and she was curled up asleep on the master bed like it was her own. I think she would have received some credibility and leniency if only her drunk blacked out ass hadn't broken a window to get in. Who knows maybe she's broken a few of her own when she locked herself out of her own home in this intoxicated condition. She may have thought the boyfriend or husband had once again locked her out of her own house. Sadly this time is wasn't her own home it was a strangers home.
A serial killers dream failed when a victim willingly breaks into a random abode but not his!
So there a lesson that on the surface you could be jailed if you drink till you black out for a number of crazy reasons, but remember there are really dangerous people that live in seemingly normal houses right next to ours. I think this person is very lucky and there in lies the blessing.
So the warning is if your going to drink and walk, then what do we tell our kids?  'Don't walk alone'
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'Breaking Bad' is just so good

Every so often my adult kids come to me asking "Have you watched the show Breaking Bad yet?"  The answer is always "no, why would I watch a show glorifying a meth dealer" They try to tell me how great it is and how there is a storyline to it and not what I think. Well, as I understand it a teacher goes broke and decides to manufacture meth to get out of debt. Do I have the lay out correct?

My argument is how ever they try to twist this series it's core is about making meth. Drugs and some great guy falling into the drug production and I don't need to hear more than this to know I am not interested. I remember caving in recently and watching the first show in the series "Orange to Black" (or something like that) against my better judgement. Sure enough I thought "oh it isn't bad, there's a story to it" until I reached the scene of a woman doing (guess) to another woman and it was in plain view! This is a TV series? Are you kidding? When did TV turn into Porn? Why is this in my face? I never watched another episode.

So, no thank you on glorifying Meth manufacturing because there is some story line to it. I am not saying there is sex, I am saying "What message does this send out?" 

And here it is, a new Heroine manufacturer calling his new and improved Heroin "Breaking Bad" I wonder where he got that name? So far it has only killed people. I know...I understand...Breaking Bad the series is about Meth, not Heroine. Daaa.

I end this by saying Ignorance is Bliss and you just never know how some idiot will take a series like Breaking Bad, the name of the heroin is all I need to justify my view.  here