What About Them?
We just returned from Chicago where we saw our very favorite Dr. Love for Cliff's annual check-up at Loyola. Everything looks good, but it was a very stressful three days of tests and doctors and appointments and hurrying up and waiting. His pulmonary numbers are stable, his kidneys are still working and we actually got to see a sleep doctor who came up with a plan to help control the insomnia with which he's been plagued for 15 years.
So, I listen to all the screaming and ranting and raving and lying and exaggerating and absolutely disgusting, disgraceful behavior (ummm, Joe Wilson) and I think, "We are so lucky. We have good insurance, we have an incredible doctor, we have a friend at the City benefits office, we have a very helpful case manager at BC/BS, I have several nurse friends and relatives who never BS me." And then I think, "What about the people who aren't so lucky, who didn't work for attorneys for 35 years and pick up some nasty lawyer tricks, who aren't so persistent and obnoxious that people give in just to make them go away, who don't understand every little bit and piece of the chronic condition with which they're dealing, who don't know the questions to ask or the services to expect/demand, who don't have the resources? What about them?" I'm waiting for President Obama to "go Chicago" on Congress, but will it really happen? Maybe part of the solution is simply learning to survive in the system we've got . . .
That's all. What about them?
So, I listen to all the screaming and ranting and raving and lying and exaggerating and absolutely disgusting, disgraceful behavior (ummm, Joe Wilson) and I think, "We are so lucky. We have good insurance, we have an incredible doctor, we have a friend at the City benefits office, we have a very helpful case manager at BC/BS, I have several nurse friends and relatives who never BS me." And then I think, "What about the people who aren't so lucky, who didn't work for attorneys for 35 years and pick up some nasty lawyer tricks, who aren't so persistent and obnoxious that people give in just to make them go away, who don't understand every little bit and piece of the chronic condition with which they're dealing, who don't know the questions to ask or the services to expect/demand, who don't have the resources? What about them?" I'm waiting for President Obama to "go Chicago" on Congress, but will it really happen? Maybe part of the solution is simply learning to survive in the system we've got . . .
That's all. What about them?
posted by Debra Hope @ 4:51 PM
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