Quickly? Slowly?
Knowingly? Unknowingly?
Why?
God doesn't answer prayers, so I've had to suffer a lot and I still am not dead.
I made a phone call to Kaiser Permanente's advice nurse hotline. They had claimed that they had to authorize emergency room visits or they wouldn't financially cover the visits. I said that my mom was experiencing heart attack symptoms, as she had been when she previously had a heart attack. I described the pain traveling in the left arm, tightness in the neck, cold sweat, pain in the chest. The nurse insisted that these were not signs of a heart attack. I argued with the nurse, but the nurse was insistent. I got a call back from Kaiser Permanente's advice nurse hotline, stating that they had reviewed the phone call and they changed their minds, they said that it was urgent to get mom to an emergency room. I knocked on the bathroom door....no response. I kept knocking. I barged into the bathroom to see mom slumped over and dead. I didn't know who to call or how to deal with the death. Kaiser doesn't deal with helping people figure out what to do (I know, I asked them). Kaiser Permanente is very proud of never having any complaints (as they used to have years ago) since they initiated a policy of not allowing complaints. If you call up with a complaint, they don't file it. With me, they rewrote my complaints. I said that they should take a number instead of having people on crutches standing in line for 4 hours, so they rewrote the complaint jljldkjflsdjflsd and said that it makes no sense. Kaiser Permanente now has a perfect record of being the best medical facility. Deserved?????????????
Kaiser Permanente had the idea that they could remove a person's immune system and rewrite it to cure them of illnesses. They performed this experiment using live under-aged humans as lab rats without the permission of the kids or their parents. As long as the experiment was done in a poor neighborhood of Los Angeles, where people couldn't afford lawyers and couldn't speak English well, they could avoid (or evade) law suits. Kaiser was successful in removing their immune systems, but unsuccessful in making a new immune system for them. This meant that they were bubble boys, unable to leave a plastic bubble for the rest of their lives because any type of bacteria or fungus, or virus would likely kill them. It was similar to having full blown AIDS with a compromised immune system. They paid the victim's family's $500 each as compensation. Today, you can't sue, you have to go through arbitration, and Kaiser is the arbitrator. The person who caused the problem is the person who evaluates if there was a problem. Since this system was instituted, the number of lawsuits dropped to nearly nothing. The goal was to eliminate frivolous lawsuits to save money so our medical costs would drop. But, even with ObamaCare (Affordable Care Act), the cost of medicine increased tremendously. Obviously cutting out lawsuits didn't help, and only emboldened the lawbreakers.
Among my various problems is diabetes. I ate a sundae and had a
diabetic coma (dropped phone, didn't remember conversation). My friend, noting my various other life threatening illnesses, and possibilities for amputations, blindness, paralysis, stupidity due to strokes (hey, someone should be able to tell the difference), said that if things get really bad, I should
eat several sundaes as a means of suicide.
Wow...
.what an awesome way of avoiding stupidity. (Really, folks, I don't need to do this yet....really....really).
Woody Allen said that he doesn't mind dying as long as he doesn't have to be there when it happens.
Old folks have to deal with the problem of death like the sword of Damocles over their heads. Yet, many go on with life without paying attention to the fast approaching end, and try to
savor every moment of enjoyment that they can.
An ancient native American fable says that we come into this world bald and toothless, and everyone cries with joy. The goal is to leave bald and toothless with everyone
crying tears of loss. This only happens if we live correctly.
Never bet that you will die sooner (you'll never collect). Life insurance, though a means of making money, is a lousy investment for this reason.
Joke: The doctor said that I have good news and bad news. The good news is that you will die in two weeks. Oh my, the bad news must be horrible if that is the good news. What is the bad news? The doctor said that the information is two weeks old.
