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What’s going with our health care today

Healthcare Crisis

The election is today and people before you cast your vote you better make sure you know what the future of healthcare is going to look like.  If I had gone through my hospital experience a month ago I would have had more time to convince you that healthcare should be on the top of your list of concerns.

In short there is not enough medical after care in hospitals to adequately take care of the patient’s in there care.  After a very serious surgery I sat in my own vomit twice with no one coming to help me for over half an hour.  I had to ask to have my linens and gown changed.  I had to wait for two hours after release from recovery room for a porter to transport me to my room.  The food I would not feed to a dog.  Even once released to go home there was no one to escort me to the door where my ride was waiting.  This is a small part of the story from the hospital where my surgery took place.  Believe me there is more to tell.

Then there was the emergency trip to a different hospital in the area where I was staying for my recovery.  An 18 hour stay in a situation of terror and feelings of being a prisoner trapped.  I went in because the pain just got too much for me to handle and I’m allergic to narcotics.  So handling the pain was very problematic.  It took four EMT’s and two Fire Rescue guys to get me out of the house because any movement sent me screaming in pain.  Once at the hospital I was triaged fairly quickly and put in the yellow zone.  That’s the step down from ICU more urgent care and it’s just after 1 am. At around 3 am doctor finally shows.  Tells me he has ordered morphine and x-rays.  Never checks the site of the surgery and off he goes then I flag him to tell him I’m a little concerned about the morphine.  His response is we will keep on eye for any reaction.  At this point, I don’t care just stop the pain.  So I get the shot and then they take me to X-ray.  When that’s done I’m now floating and falling asleep from the pain and exhaustion.  At around 5 am I ask the nurse if the doctor has seen the x-rays, she replies no that they are very busy.  Alice has to leave me because she has to work.  After she leaves the pain starts to peak again and I have no call button, so I ask for the nurse to anyone that is walking by.  No response from anyone finally the doctor appears around 9 am.  I get another dose of morphine and told that I’m being discharged and can go home.  He states the hardware looks fine and no other explanation for the increased pain.  I ask  the nurse how am I suppose get home.  I can’t sit, walk or stand or ride in a car.  Nurse goes off and comes back saying they have called for an ambulance provided I’m willing to pay 200 dollars, which I agree too.  Then I ask them for a phone so I could call my family to let them know I’m coming home.  Nurse responds we do not have phones for patients.  So I ask her to call, which she does.  So now Alice and Owen believe I will be home in hour or so.  It’s around 9 am.

Ambulance arrives and drivers take one look at me and tell Nurse that they are not qualified to transfer someone in my condition that I need the EMT guys. Nurse goes off comes back an hour later to tell me I’m not a priority so it will be 3-4 hours before anyone comes to pick me up.  At that point I demand a phone so I can call home and I’m refused.  For the next 6 hours I am screaming in pain and frustration requesting a phone and something to handle the pain.  They just walk by me and ignore me as if I wasn’t there.   They have officially discharged me hours before, so if anyone wanted to find me I wasn’t there.  The nurse finally got an order from the doctor to shoot me up every two hours.  I’m sure hoping to keep me quiet.  Finally continuing to demand a phone to call home they decided to move me to the Blue Zone (less critical) under the pretence they needed my room which was bull as there were empty rooms.  So they put way in back in a room with storage gave me a call bell and left me for half an hour.  When the new nurse came back she asked if I felt nausea.  The minutes she said that I started vomiting and my skin started to itch.  It was as if I had ants crawling under every piece of skin.  I vomited for over one hour and half with little help from the nurses.  They just dropped off some basins and left me.   At one point because I can’t sit up I started choking trying to lie on my side and projectile vomit.  Finally the nurse got worried and decided to move me closer to the station.  So now I’m in the hall with every wall covered with a stretcher and a body.  I know that by now I must be dehydrated so I’m requesting water.  My mouth and tongue are so dry I can hardly speak.  It’s now around 8:30 pm   I ask the new nurse for a phone and she gives up her personal phone.  I call home and Alice and Owen arrive within half hour and once they are there like a miracle within 15 minutes there is an EMT ready to take me home.

This was a nightmare of the worse kind and I’m telling you folks if you don’t start demanding more from our healthcare we will be no better then a third world country.  This hospital violated my rights.  It was like being held prisoner.  My family had no idea what was going on and because I was discharged could not be found.

So when you go to polls today… think about healthcare and if this an indication of the cutbacks, lack of funding as baby boomers you better make sure this is a priority.  This country and province has the medical schools, specialty doctors, the technology, the building infrastructure but none of that is any good if you don’t have the after care.  I believe people are dying because of this hole in our system and it will be the seniors, the most vulnerable of society that are going to pay the price.  It will be the people without family or friends to advocate for them at a time when they can’t speak for themselves.  This is a crisis so wake up.

World Enslavement by Tony Samuels

“Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal – that there is no human relation between master and slave.” - Leo Tolstoy
“Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal – that there is no human relation between master and slave.”
– Leo Tolstoy

We live in an age where all secrets can be uncovered. An age where the old ways of power and control are unraveling. We have become slaves, who feed a machine that refuses to recognize that it is only as good as the workers who feed and maintain it. The machines of control are found in the military who ensure never ending war.  Follow the money to find where the power hubs lie. Who supplies all the munitions and is making all the money off of our fears? Who is the true threat?

Why is it that on our planet with so much abundance, that we are so dependent on big oil and fossil fuels? We have enough technology to work in harmony with the earth. Instead we allow a few to rape and pillage earth’s resources with an unfair redistribution of its wealth. Once again follow the money. Who hurts the most financially, with an attempt to implement a new way of doing things?   Solar energy, wind turbines, tidal and Hydro electric power, bio fuels, the list is growing of the technologies which are being suppressed to keep control of ever increasingly expensive markets.

What about the all-out war on our food supply? We have been brainwashed into counting calories instead of chemicals. Family farms are being taken over by big agra, who fights daily to gain control of our food supply, while offering us the illusion of health and naturalness. Why is it that the three biggest money makers in our food industry are chemical companies (Monsanto, DOW, and Chargill) who bring us substantial equivalence instead of the nutritive food fair that has kept us alive and healthy since the dawn of time.  Why do we allow them to attempt to control and modify the world’s organic seed supply. GMO’s (genetically modified organisms) that has corrupted the food chain and headed us into an area that we may not be able to return from. Did you know that Bill Gates and Monsanto have built, and own a not so secret Arctoc cryogenic heirloom seed vault, buried under tons of ice? Why would they be in cahoots to solve the world’s hunger problem by becoming the money makers in corrupting and owning our food supply with GMO’s?  Do you know that in some states in the U.S. it is now illegal to have a home garden? Where does the money lead and who is getting rich on a system that doesn’t live up to the hype nor the manipulated and suppressed information coming from the doctored research?

What about our illusionary monetary system (banks and stock markets) along with the dominance of economic control. The illusion of money, profit and of free trade only moves jobs overseas and kills manufacturing, as corporate control of our government allows these very companies to make unheard of profits and reduce expenses on our behalf. We are 7 billion+ slaves who work for a system that no longer has our best interest at heart. The rich getting richer has never been as true as it is today. What is equitable when the world’s biggest department store chain (Walmart) becomes this biggest welfare recipient. Don’t believe me, well there are more Walmart employees who are dependent on welfare and food stamps because Walmart pays minimum wage. What is wrong with providing a living wage when you are the world’s richest company? If a company is only as good as its workers what is wrong with providing a livable wage. We truly are enslaved.

There are more people on this planet who want change than there are those who do not. Who will our governments bail out with the next worldwide economic collapse? It won’t be you and I.

We live in a world where corporate own our governments and these same entities willingly poison our food supply for profit. All of this to feed a health care system that is slowly eroding and deteriorating, with increasing costs and dwindling service. We then have a pharmaceutical industry that is intent on masking symptoms instead of finding and delivering cures. With intent to gain profit on medicinal patents coming to market, which actually have more contra indicators and side effects than the issue they attempt to address.

We now live in a time where we have to make tough choices. In a world that wants to live in peace with a roof over our heads, food on the table and the ability to enjoy the fruits of our labor, we are manipulated into complacency.

So how do we collectively invoke change. The first step is awareness of the problems. The second step is to acknowledge the need for change. The third step is to start the change yourself with small steps at first and then move outward like a ripple in the water. It will be hard at first because we have all become comfortable in our misery.

Start with the things you eat. Buy local and eat organic when you can. Reduce the consumption of pesticides, fungicides and herbicides. Start a new garden when you can and share your bounty with your neighbors. To reduce the amount of hard work that it takes to plant, grow and sow your harvest, create a list of things each family will grow to increase the variety of fresh food available to all the families who join the cooperative. Each family grows different crops which are shared with each other at harvest. Reduce the amount of process food ingested. Todays processed foods contain more chemicals, dyes and fillers than natural ingredients. Avoid foods with corn, soy and sugar beets (processed into high fructose corn syrup, fructose and other sweeteners) as 90 percent of these crops are now GMO’S!! Avoid aspartame, not only is it a GMO product, it is derived from the excrement of a genetically modified ecoli bacteria. Aspartame also breaks down into formaldehyde when ingested and cannot be digested. Avoid these GMO’S and lobby to have them labeled in our food supply. Our money talks when companies won’t listen. Affect profit and we affect what they will produce. As they have always said money talks. Talk to your local grocer about the integrity of the food they supply. Walmart does not concern itself with the amount of GMO products on its shelves (70%+) and this is another area where your dollars count. Do not buy your food at Walmart. The money you save now will cost you a lot more later if you do. Europe already has the same products we buy here but it is illegal for the food manufacturers to use any GMO ingredients.

Talk to your family, talk to your friends, take control back of what you put in your body. Some companies are starting to listen to us, as consumers already. Go on the Internet and do the research, there is a wealth of information out there.

As we move forward and others jump on board, this groundswell will assist us in coming together to tackle the other issues being banks, insurance, fossil fuels, big farma and big pharma, the military industrial complex and the growth in militaristic police forces. We can reduce our reliance on the pharmaceutical industry by taking back control of our food manufacturers, and become responsible for our own health.

All journeys begin with the first step and we have a lot of steps to take to ensure the world is a better place for our future generations. It starts here and it starts now.