This story has ended. Mom passed away today. She caught a cold this weekend that rapidly turned into what my mother like to call, “the old people’s friend”, pneumonia.

There is a woman, Teepa Snow, that specializes in the care of people with dementia. She is outstanding and helps both parties deal with with dementia with dignity.

There is a you tube chn called CareBlazers. It is encouragement for the care givers and how to work with the associated problems. My mom is 87, and lives a few houses from me. She has been getting forgetful, and in time. I'll have to put her in a place. But enough about my stuff. I know you're guys will be here when I need to vent.

Mom has slipped some, but not as much as I was expecting. My sisters paint a bleak picture, like mom has one foot in the grave and another on a banana peel. From talking to her, she still carries on a decent conversation. I sent my uncle’s best wishes to her and she asked after his wife. My uncle has been divorced for a couple of decades, she wasn’t aware, she knew about it when it happened, she told me as a matter of fact. This shook me a bit.

Thanks for the reply. Good points one and all. It appears the dump isn't getting drained very fast. What or when will Americans catch on? We're just 2 voices in the forest. Typically people fear paying higher taxes for someone else's healthcare. One comment stated people pay "80% taxes on income" for healthcare for all. I never researched that directly, but in Pro vs Con comparisons cost never was listed as a con. Long story short, KEEPING people in good health costs far less than GETTING them in good health.

Doesn't make any difference the type or quality of care, as long as we have politicians lining their pockets for regulations that help deep pocket health care firms and pharmaceuticals. Nothing will change. Career politicians are the problem at all levels of society. Look at the cost of advertising prescription medicine to the general public on mass media, just to get the patient to pressure doctors into prescribing "their" drugs.

AMERICA: Most expensive healthcare in the world, 25% administrative overhead, Number 1 cause of bankruptcy, the poorest have to get healthcare at the most expensive place to get it, ie The ER. Not to mention government involvement. Warren Buffet labeled American healthcare as "The tapeworm on the American economy." What if I told you we could have universal coverage, lower cost, 5% or less admin overhead, and NOBODY goes bankrupt? Forget OBamacare, Medicare and Medicaid. Look at healthcare systems in The Netherlands, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Viet Nam. None of these envy the American healthcare in the slightest. Why do we keep it? The government influence varies greatly, the German system has almost none. Some have parallel systems, people can buy extra insurance to get Deluxe coverage of sorts, but everybody is insured, no co-pays! America can do it! Take the best of these other systems, stop big pharma and insurance companies from influencing ($) Washington politics. We put men on the moon! Why can't we give all citizens basic healthcare? It's proven cheaper, allows for extra insurance to increase convenience if that's important to you.

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Does sound good, don't know if true.

Good read. I'm no MD but the gist is good.

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COVID-19 virus, meet night shift nurse.

Leave them where they are and make a lot more.

She could sell them on E-Bay for a lot more than they cost!

Sure, show me the benefits of being sequestered and right away my wife starts complaining that I misunderstood the meaning. Crap!

Weeeell, I find it hard(pun intended) to find fault here.

Once again, if you have common sense, you are ahead of the game.

My youngest has stopped talking to me because I will soon be on my death bed due to my food handling. Wish she could read this. It' attributed, longish, but a good easy read. Here to correct these misconceptions is Donald Schaffner, a faculty member in Rutgers University’s Department of Food Science. Schaffner’s advice for us is drawn from his experience as a food microbiologist. First and foremost, that terrifying report from the CDC that indicates the virus remained detectable on surfaces for as long as 17 days is based on finding viral RNA—not exactly the same as finding an infectious viral particle. The presence of fragments of a virus isn’t necessarily the same as an intact viral particle capable of infecting a person. Beyond that, the CDC does not provide the methods used to arrive at this 17 day figure, but instead cites personal communication—the scientific equivalent of passing off gossip as fact. Maybe it’s right, maybe it’s wrong, but you won’t know until you’ve gotten the full details from the original source. When it comes to making sure your groceries are safe, then, it’s not necessary to keep them on the porch or in the garage for three days. For perishable items like milk or ice cream, that’s actually a good way to end up with spoiled or rotting food, which is its safety issue. It’s also a really bad idea to wash fruits and veggies with soap, as ingesting soap can cause nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. And we don’t need anything else to worry about right now, do we?

On Gt I'm "a troll" or have TDS for posting these pics. Who do you trust your life with? Glad I wont be working in Labor & Delivery in 9 months!

It's true. We just don't prepare for the future. Neither our citizens, nor our government. We live in a society that has been taught instant gratification for so many generations, we now are incapable of looking ahead, no matter what the end cost. My classic example is our electrical grid. The cross country grid is composed of a multitude of custom made transformers. Many of these will take 2 years to make, and ship to the specific locations that uses it. In the event of a Solar Flare large enough, we could lose the cross country grid because of the length of these lines and the energy put out by a large Solar Flare. The energy is measured in Volts per meter of the length of the conductor that is in the path of this radiation. Our Cross country lines are hundreds of mile in each leg of the path. This means enough energy could be induced in these lines to arc over many of these custom transformers. When this occurs, all interconnected electrical power will be cut off. This country runs on electricity, our society survives on it. Without it we will see an event that will bring all of us to our knees. To manufacture replacement custom transformers and place them at their ultimate location, would cost an estimated $2 Billion dollars today. The electrical companies will not do this because they have no way to get this expense deducted from their operating expenses. The government won't pay for this because it hasn't happened yet, and it is seen as a speculative measure. Even though it's an eventual certainty. We simply have had our ability to prepare for the future bred out of us!

I've long hated our healthcare system, and always vocal about it. Life can't be bought once it's gone, but healthcare workers and patients are just numbers to the bean counters. Patients crippled or dying for financial reasons is criminal. Now front line care givers are dying because nobody wanted to spend for the needed PPE to be ready for the well foreseen eventual pandemic. Cancer treatment left me hopelessly in debt, so I save to pay a bankruptcy lawyer. The juxtaposition of money and life makes me crazy(er)! I think something snapped in my brain when the bill for $338,000 arrived.

We do what we must do. No one can ask more of you.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/were-failing-doctors/608662/

R.I.P. Brother.