Posted by alexandra_k on June 11, 2021, at 16:51:11
In reply to Re: Johnson + Johnson vaccine can someone explain how » Phillipa, posted by alexandra_k on June 11, 2021, at 16:35:07
the hospital got hacked and the doctors couldn't access patient records / patient files.
they were sending people for radiation treatment to private providers in Tauranga and arranging radiation therapy in Tauranga and Wellington and were even talking about Sydney.
My Mother could have used that opportunity to go back and say that she was concerned (that had very recently had a bone marrow biopsy after a positive FISH test) and she was concerned that may she did need to start radiation therapy... They did say something to her about an experimental treatment in Tauranga...
I did say to her that I thought she should go and talk to the specialist and see what he had to say so that she could make an informed decision.
But she doesn't want to do any of that. So -- that is her decision. She could have had a private consultation at no cost to herself (or the cost of a bus ride to a place maybe 40 minutes away). My sister would likely have driven her and stayed with her if that is what she wanted (and she enjoys my sisters company). But she made her decision.
So it isn't that the public system is failing her. She's chosen.
I don't know about the bone marrow biopsy. I find it suspicious that they knocked her out. But my mother will go on about how anxious she is, so maybe they did decide to knock her out for it.
She's got this idea that by doing nothing / delaying / waiting and seeing things will be... Gentler. Easier that way.
I think she's just accepting that that's that. Really. She is over 80, I guess.
It used to be that was a good age. I guess I'm too used to hearing of people over 100.
I don't suppose she has much of a will to live, really. Like my Dad.
Like me, half the time.
But my thing is how I cannot function in this garbage-heap of a rubbish-land because the people they chose to be mighty esteemed leaders with all the money and all the power and all the meaningful work use their power to refuse to do any of the things that they are supposed to do. Most basic of functions. Not working. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Zero. I can't function because all the money grubbers grubby grub grub grubbed up everything while not doing any of the things that allow other people a way of life, too.
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