Thought or Rant of the day!!!

[rconley]

I've spent the last six and a half hours at the hospitals' ER and Heart care center. We've dealt with extremely rude hospital staff in an already trying time and from what I understand a rather rude nurse when it all began as well because she was bothered on her day off. Rather irritating.

My dad had a massive heart attack tonight. Four blockages in his heart. They had to put in stints. They said it nearly killed him. He was extremely lucky that he just happened to be picking my sister up from work at a day care when one of the kid's father showed up and was a nurse as well. Debs was on the phone with 911 at the time he walked in and he took over from there but his (wife or exwife) also a nurse had this problem with the eyes rolling in the back of her head when she was asked to bother by him to take my dad's pulse. If that man hadn't been there....

It's been a very rough night. And all that's been going through my head this whole time has been what I HAVEN"T said to him that I should have all these years. On the up side, I think this was finally the wake up call to cut out the cigarettes and stop smoking that his doctors have now been telling him for years....

My characters may be a bit less active at times for the next few days...

[Dudel]

Wow that sounds like a rally shitty day.

Hope your father is okay, with little thanks to the medial industry. Very few nurses and docters seem to wan't to help on their days off.

Hope all is well, say what you need to say and don't worry about imaginary people. Worry about the real ones you physically interact with.

Again hope all is well. Never good heart attacks and if your father is like my grandfather the smokeing thing won't stop. (Of course the ornury and mean ones can live forever. Love my Grandpa he's just a mean old dude)

[*Wiro]

Sounds really stupid. :/
Smoking sucks. Luckily my mom got my grandparents (her parents) to stop, and our whole family got my stubborn grandmother to stop smoking.

[SekoETC]

I remember when my dad had a heart attack, it was when he was taking me home from school because I had a minor fracture in my foot and mom thought it wasn't healthy for me to walk home even though my foot was taped and that was enough support for the fracture. So when I got to the parking lot, first of all he had had to wait a while in there, enough to visit the grocery store next to the parking lot and get some free samples of tasty sausage or cheese or what ever it was, anyway, something greasy. When I said something like "Hey dad, could you just toss me some money, I wanna go to the store with my friends. I can walk home, no problem." that was enough to make his blood pressure rise. He said something like "No, get in the car, now." I didn't notice anything strange but later he said he was having his field of vision contract while he was driving.

When we got home he said he needed to lie down for a while. Then mom went to check on him and realized he was having a heart attack. She called the ambulance and it was standing in front of the open door while the paramedics were putting an IV on him and neighbors passing by stopped to stare at the ambulance and that felt embarrassing in a way. I felt lost, just standing around silently wondering what's going to happen now.

Of course it was bound to happen sooner or later since dad ate a lot of fatty food and never exercised. At least he wasn't smoking or drinking, that may have given him some extra years but mom made him change his eating habits. For several years we weren't allowed salami or anything deep-fried, no one was allowed to buy those things. They started eating turkey instead of fatty sausages. Everything had to be light and fat had to be vegetable-based. Now the rules have been loosened up so that if I want posso (a pastry boiled in fat and covered in sugar) they'll buy me that. And I can eat salami in my own place. I suppose I'll end up the same way when I'm older since I don't exercise and have started eating more fatty foods since I moved out, but if I can get to 60 then that'll be fine.

[rconley]

Lady came in to see my dad today at the hospital about how he would pay for the bill. It's over $70,000. Good information to give him another heart attack! And since his new job's insurance doesn't kick in for 90 days, mom and dad are stuck with the entire bill. They are barely getting by as it is with my dad having been on disability so long. Ugh....

[*Wiro]

Some people really don't know a bit about timing.
I don't get how they could ask that much. Sure, someone's life is worth much more than that, but I think that amount is a bit too much for a hospital.

They should help people, not steal their money and give them another problem.

[Piscator]

What they SHOULD do is get money from the state. Currently they have no choice but letting the patient pay the bill. Who else would in case the insurance doesn't?

The fact that Obama intends to change the problem doesn't help much right now.

[*Wiro]

Or just get rid of the freaking problem called money.

[Piscator]

Money is not the problem. I like money. It's handy. The problem are the rules by which it is distributed.

[joo]

Lady came in to see my dad today at the hospital about how he would pay for the bill. It's over $70,000. Good information to give him another heart attack! And since his new job's insurance doesn't kick in for 90 days, mom and dad are stuck with the entire bill. They are barely getting by as it is with my dad having been on disability so long. Ugh....

Eh, that's terrible... your country has no NHS, eh? My father had to have heart surgery as well - not as bad as that, but he had to have a stent put in as a precautionary measure. It's bad enough that a family member's life is in danger, but you have to pay for it in money as well...

[Mr. Black]

I'm gonna have to agree with Wiro on this one. Money does cause a lot more problems than it's worth, in my mind. But hey, it's your funeral, isn't it?

[mikki]

My late uncle was in the hospital before passing away.. His liver was pretty much gone and was sent to a hospital the the north part of the state. He was told that because he had been a drug user and an alcoholic for most of his life that the transplant team decided he wasn't worthy of a new liver.. Now he had been clean for quite some time before this.. How would you feel to know that the only way you can stay alive was to have this transplant and then be told that you were not worthy? Not even a week later he passed away...

RIP Danny You are very missed by everyone..

[Dudel]

My late uncle was in the hospital before passing away.. His liver was pretty much gone and was sent to a hospital the the north part of the state. He was told that because he had been a drug user and an alcoholic for most of his life that the transplant team decided he wasn't worthy of a new liver.. Now he had been clean for quite some time before this.. How would you feel to know that the only way you can stay alive was to have this transplant and then be told that you were not worthy? Not even a week later he passed away...

RIP Danny You are very missed by everyone..

Thats really really really really....horrible. Well the even sadder note is that if one person whom is generally horrible and shouldn't live because all they do is cause missery lives because they got the mola to change peoples minds.

Whoo go Government!<---sarcasim

[playerslayer666]

" not worthy "? was that honestly there exact choice of words???

you know, hospitals can't save everyone and it's not like they have an endless supply of spare organs, but couldn't they have lied to you and said " there is nothing we can do " ?

on a brighter note i have a new cantr account

[rconley]

on a brighter note i have a new cantr account

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