The Fibrochondriac

Have you noticed I haven’t been blogging much lately? I’ve noticed it at least:) This happened once before last August when I was frustrated by family problems. Again…frustrated. Different problem, but has absolutely nothing to do with my blogging. Weird, isn’t it?

So I’m going to force it. Bear with me, pretty sure this post will not be one of my most brilliant, but it will be a post!

I’ve noticed there is a lot of interest in my Low-Dose Naltrexone story. And at some point I will start taking it again. Soon, I hope. But I’m not just about LDN…about the same as I’m not just about fibro.

Hope it’s okay with everybody else if I just write whatever I want to write. My blog, I write…you read (if you want). That’s how it works.

And today, I want to write about health care reform. Yes, I wrote about that last time. Well, I posted about it…didn’t do much of the writing. And I did make a comment on the LDN yahoo group list on the subject of close-minded people and health care politics.

People were getting all up in arms because they didn’t want to talk politics on the LDN website. ‘Scuse me?

Yeah, and especially don’t talk about politics if I don’t like what you’re saying!

All kidding aside…LDN, and the battle we face to be prescribed it, is all about politics. I see all sorts of comments about the UK petition on here, for example.

You’re right though. This group should just be about LDN. But the conversation evolved and what got said truly needed to be said.

Some people, even on this board (which blows my mind), are incredible in that they either chose not to understand or just don’t know the perils of the U.S. healthcare system.

It was a great education for those that were willing to listen and learn.

Okay then, back to the subject at hand!

Ewh, I got some nasty emails!! How dare I “imply that those who voiced serious questions about the current bills and the government running the healthcare system are either closeminded or stupid” (if you don’t get what I’m talking about, reread what was written in italics up above and here.) Who in that emailed conversation had serious questions? Sure as hell not “Ol’ High and Mighty” who was berating another subscriber for not paying for health insurance. Hello?

And I was warned that I could be “blocked from the list” if I continued down that path. Seriously?

WTF is up with people being so utterly close-minded to the fact that there is a problem with our health care system? Yes, PLEASE ASK THOSE SERIOUS QUESTIONS but don’t say our system could use “some improvement”.

Uh-huh, the Hanford Nuclear Reactor needed some improvements, too.

What is it about people who don’t see, or don’t want to see that there is a problem with a country that spends over $7,000 per individual in health care costs…and has infant and maternal mortality rates that are going through the roof?

And if that doesn’t getcha, have you had to actually stay in the hospital lately? What my friend Tracy over at http://makingitthroughtherain.com was simply unfuckingbelievable (yeah, I’m saying all sorts of things today, aren’t I? If I can’t write well at least I can cause eyes to bug. All to the good).

Tracy has MS and had to go into the hospital for some tests. She was there for five days and she, like the crazy courageous chick she is, blogged about it. I couldn’t have. I’d be in the psych ward dealing with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). Her treatment at the hospital was so incredibly bad she had to address it in stages.

Here’s the links:

• http://makingitthroughtherain.com/2010/02/08/hell-hospital/
• http://makingitthroughtherain.com/2010/02/09/hell-hospital-pt-2/
• http://makingitthroughtherain.com/2010/02/10/hell-hospital-pt-3-the-cystoscopy/
• http://makingitthroughtherain.com/2010/02/12/hell-hospital-pt-4-the-colonoscopy-1st-time/
• http://makingitthroughtherain.com/2010/02/13/hell-hospital-pt-4-the-colonoscopy-2nd-and-last-time/

It’s painful to read, but as it was stated in my last post…“There, but for the grace of God, go I.” Please God (and I’m not altogether certain that there is one…but covering my bases here) I never want to be in a hospital ever again after reading about that hospital stay.

Tracy, by the way, has health care insurance. But that did stop the nurses from treating her like a piece of meat. Rules and regulations were consistently violated. As was her privacy and any sense of control over what was happening to her.

So here’s what I want to know…exactly how much worse could socialist (yep, I said that too!) medicine be?!