Re: Big Pharma, Puppet Docs,Medicare, and The Raping of Our Seniors

Thank you Chris.  This did indeed came from my heart as I had just come back from Jim and Geraldine's house.  I sat down and my feelings came pouring out.  Feelings that I feel so often.

Despite the fact that our seniors are held captive in our medical system, the knife is twisted when they are only allowed a certain number of the very drugs they need to stay alive a little longer and then the price goes up to hundreds of dollars a month for one prescription.  This makes no sense and it is outright murder if not blatantly playing russian roulette with their lives.

I love these people and they have become my family.  It hurts as I watch their lives being run by those in the medical system.  Especially in the most beautiful state of the art new nursing homes.  Did we ever see the day when they would not be allowed to take vitamins? 

What do these people have left?  Maybe somebody to come in once a week, do a bible study, sing, have birthday parties, and just sit down and talk and visit. 

Can I do anything about it?  It has to be from the top.  The nursing home I frequent is just the end trickle from the river that flows from the top, Washington, D. C. I used to voice my concerns to the nurses, even to the administrator only to realize that they too are clueless.  They are so used to the system that they merely "do their job."  And the doctor is King.  A while ago I realized that the best course of action to take is to shut up before I burn my bridges.  If all I can do is make them happy and give them love, in order to give them some type of quality of life, that is what I will do.  In the meantime, I do observe.

I love what I do.  I now get so very melancholy as a resident either passes away or is moved to hospice, as I will not see them again.  For the span of time that I knew them, I have done my job.  When a new resident comes in those doors, I have my next assignment until the time that our roads part.

Hugs,

Luella