And we also have the mayor of Paradise blind sided and troubled that the scrapping of the hospital will prolong traffic issues and congestions in the Town
Ed, Why is NEWS 90 % negative and only 10 % positive? It seems humans are hardwired to want negative news, as it is basic to survival. Therefore bad news sells. Surely too much bad news in not healthy, and could lead to depression say?
But, whether something is bad or good, depends on one's perspective: Example; our desperate health care system is not going to get a 10-15 billion new hospital, may be bad news for some. But it may be seen as a Maga- Farce. Being cancelled may help delay or prevent the bankrupsy of N, Surely that is good news.
So does your writing give hope or despair? For me.......it's hope. But of course, hope is not a strategy.
Worse in this piece, I read that now there is the loss of a "Stroke" Centre. Heart and stroke is a bigger killer than cancer and lung disease combined, or so I seem to have read, and yet it gets little attention, and many thousands in this province disabled by this, and many dropping like flies.
And it is personal. I have 3 other friends (RF, GJ, WW) all in bad shape and not getting much care here , some of them worst than me.
I discovered a few months ago, diagnosed by a RN nurse, that I have been having strokes now starting 2 years ago, but not knowing what they were. Fortunately they are deemed TIAs. These commonly called mini-strokes. Started as one every few months, then one every few weeks and now sometimes 2 per day, but average one per week. I have become familiar with the symptoms and the triggers, so it's not as frightening as it initially was. I've had two or 3 while at the HSC, the ER, and was ignored,........ have mercy, as Don Williams would say. A TIA prevents speech, head and face numbness, extreme weakness, erratic heart and blood pressure etc, ........but recovers in 24 hours or less, without permanent damage. But always a warning for a big one.
What is not good, for me, is that this is accompanied with low oxygen at critical levels, and cardiac left bundle block, and some blockage, and that can lead to cardiac arrest. I bought a hospital bed 2 months ago, as lying flat at night increased the risk of cardiac arrest. This morning I hit a new low, for overnight average oxygen at 84 %. Most nights its 90, or a bit better. 95 or higher is ok, but not seeing that very often.
So, I'm educating myself, now using compression stocking for lower leg fluid buildup up, which is a sign of cardiac failure. Sounds bad, but can be held at bay, if tackled right.
But ,my hope is dashed, on reading of no "Stroke Center". That could have been up and running within 10 or 12 years from now. I'm only 78. It might have been a help to me by age 90. My father had serious stroke at age 60, but my grandfather's brother lived to age 101, but was a bit cracked in his old age, so I wouldn't wish for that.
However, hope is not a strategy. For that I plan a trip to the Cleveland Centre, USA, where they list 60 cardiac doctors. Care there is available next week. I need to get well enough to travel. If here they can help a bit with that. Commercial travel is out of the question. I need a private flight. I estimate 70,000 cost to and from, and perhaps 100, 000 for private care there for a week. It's easily done now days, with GoFundMe, But I could sell shares in Fortis, which has increased substantially over the decades. If not Fortis, then some of those Quebec based companies that have done well. One concern is the ICE agents, and ending up in South America. I'm working on getting my passport renewed as it expired last year.
The problem is not the cost, but to get well enough to travel. I am now engaged with Client Relations, Manager here at the HSC, Jill Hollett Antle. She deals with Quality Care and Risk Management. I have told her, if I can locally only get a bit of preliminary help, so not to be a burden on the overloaded system here, I can handle the rest, out of the province. But 3 years to have a specialist consult here don't sound good.
For now I am making one step forward and one back, and occasionally two back. I am self monitoring all my vitals and now for a year, I have lots of Fitbit data. My pulse, without physical effort, jumping from 34 to 153, RR rate gong from 7 to 30, and BP from very low to well exceeding ER levels. I use Nitro and other things that helps a bit.
I need to have a positive attitude about this, and a strategy, as hope for the Stoke Centre is dead, you say. We'll save 15 billion and with interest that is not chump change.
I look for the good in your pieces, and there it is. We need to tighten the public purse spending, of ending those farce mega project scams.
Wasn't Dr Parfey heading up Choose Wisely ? Didn't he see that Maga Scam?
Some put faith in prayer, which don't hurt. Others say God helps them that helps themselves. So I have a Plan, a strategy, and that's better than just hope and a prayer, would you agree? And in the long run, I might collect a bit more pension. Medical bills are tax deductible, so all is not bad. My Plan is my good news. If more good news comes, I try to share . If I don't stay subscribed, you can say i took a bad turn.
The experts say bad news increases the pulse and body conductivity ( so one might sweat more). But reading your piece, my pulse is only 61. Your piece must be good news not bad.
As always, you' re my first morning important news, which is certainly not 90 % bad.
We need real help for people who need care. That's you, me, people in my family. My friends. It's everybody.
We don't need super-expensive wastes of time and eventually money like all these schemes that were just substitiutes for helping people who need help.
We might need a stroke centre. We can build it somewhere else. We didn't need a massive new hospital, especially one we cannot afford and cannot staff.
Hope isn't a strategy but people need hope to not just live but to thrive. There is hope in a strategy that kills off wasteful brain farts and other superficial nonsense and delivers the care people need. We got half of that last week and I will keep my powder dry to see if the spring brings that small dose of common sense we have been missing for years.
If people want cat videos, AI slop, as John Gushue rightly calls it this morning over in his space, and other candy floss for their skulls, there's plenty of it out there. Danny Lovers used to tell me people would like me more if I said more nice things about Danny. Well, that's like telling as woman she is pretty and she should smile more so people would like her. That's bullshit and I don't do bullshit.
People didn;t vote for a new government to see more of the same. They want an end to the bullshit and more of the care they need. I hope we get it. And to do more than hope, I will keep acting to do my small paret, just like you act to improve your health or at least just stay alive. I've had arthritis since I was a teenager. I have some experience with your body crapping out while the still and mental parts remain vital. Aging is not for the weak of heart but we all have to deal with it and in that shared moment of humanity, we can find hope.
Hope isn't a strategy but it is fuel for action.
I haved hope and I keep having hope despite all the things and people I lampoon that should make me (and others) at the very least cynical if not outright depressed. I laugh because it is the only way I have to cope along side action.
This is a long rambling answer on a snowy February morning but I like to think that, if nothing else, people can see something in these rantings, typos and all, that give them something to perk up about. They can see others see what they do, feel as they do, and hope.
Every time you get out of bed you not only have hope for yourself but you give hope, by example if nothing else.
Hope is not a strategy.
You are right.
But without hope, there never can be a strategy.
We never can be.
If I am not giving hope with today's offering, then check back on Wednesday. I think that one has some hope in it.
If you have not read Bent Flyvbjerg’s book “How Big Things Get Done” I highly recommend it, even for non project managers.
Been there. Done that.
And we also have the mayor of Paradise blind sided and troubled that the scrapping of the hospital will prolong traffic issues and congestions in the Town
As if there is no other way to get roads paved without building a hospital we cannot afford.
Ed, Why is NEWS 90 % negative and only 10 % positive? It seems humans are hardwired to want negative news, as it is basic to survival. Therefore bad news sells. Surely too much bad news in not healthy, and could lead to depression say?
But, whether something is bad or good, depends on one's perspective: Example; our desperate health care system is not going to get a 10-15 billion new hospital, may be bad news for some. But it may be seen as a Maga- Farce. Being cancelled may help delay or prevent the bankrupsy of N, Surely that is good news.
So does your writing give hope or despair? For me.......it's hope. But of course, hope is not a strategy.
Worse in this piece, I read that now there is the loss of a "Stroke" Centre. Heart and stroke is a bigger killer than cancer and lung disease combined, or so I seem to have read, and yet it gets little attention, and many thousands in this province disabled by this, and many dropping like flies.
And it is personal. I have 3 other friends (RF, GJ, WW) all in bad shape and not getting much care here , some of them worst than me.
I discovered a few months ago, diagnosed by a RN nurse, that I have been having strokes now starting 2 years ago, but not knowing what they were. Fortunately they are deemed TIAs. These commonly called mini-strokes. Started as one every few months, then one every few weeks and now sometimes 2 per day, but average one per week. I have become familiar with the symptoms and the triggers, so it's not as frightening as it initially was. I've had two or 3 while at the HSC, the ER, and was ignored,........ have mercy, as Don Williams would say. A TIA prevents speech, head and face numbness, extreme weakness, erratic heart and blood pressure etc, ........but recovers in 24 hours or less, without permanent damage. But always a warning for a big one.
What is not good, for me, is that this is accompanied with low oxygen at critical levels, and cardiac left bundle block, and some blockage, and that can lead to cardiac arrest. I bought a hospital bed 2 months ago, as lying flat at night increased the risk of cardiac arrest. This morning I hit a new low, for overnight average oxygen at 84 %. Most nights its 90, or a bit better. 95 or higher is ok, but not seeing that very often.
So, I'm educating myself, now using compression stocking for lower leg fluid buildup up, which is a sign of cardiac failure. Sounds bad, but can be held at bay, if tackled right.
But ,my hope is dashed, on reading of no "Stroke Center". That could have been up and running within 10 or 12 years from now. I'm only 78. It might have been a help to me by age 90. My father had serious stroke at age 60, but my grandfather's brother lived to age 101, but was a bit cracked in his old age, so I wouldn't wish for that.
However, hope is not a strategy. For that I plan a trip to the Cleveland Centre, USA, where they list 60 cardiac doctors. Care there is available next week. I need to get well enough to travel. If here they can help a bit with that. Commercial travel is out of the question. I need a private flight. I estimate 70,000 cost to and from, and perhaps 100, 000 for private care there for a week. It's easily done now days, with GoFundMe, But I could sell shares in Fortis, which has increased substantially over the decades. If not Fortis, then some of those Quebec based companies that have done well. One concern is the ICE agents, and ending up in South America. I'm working on getting my passport renewed as it expired last year.
The problem is not the cost, but to get well enough to travel. I am now engaged with Client Relations, Manager here at the HSC, Jill Hollett Antle. She deals with Quality Care and Risk Management. I have told her, if I can locally only get a bit of preliminary help, so not to be a burden on the overloaded system here, I can handle the rest, out of the province. But 3 years to have a specialist consult here don't sound good.
For now I am making one step forward and one back, and occasionally two back. I am self monitoring all my vitals and now for a year, I have lots of Fitbit data. My pulse, without physical effort, jumping from 34 to 153, RR rate gong from 7 to 30, and BP from very low to well exceeding ER levels. I use Nitro and other things that helps a bit.
I need to have a positive attitude about this, and a strategy, as hope for the Stoke Centre is dead, you say. We'll save 15 billion and with interest that is not chump change.
I look for the good in your pieces, and there it is. We need to tighten the public purse spending, of ending those farce mega project scams.
Wasn't Dr Parfey heading up Choose Wisely ? Didn't he see that Maga Scam?
Some put faith in prayer, which don't hurt. Others say God helps them that helps themselves. So I have a Plan, a strategy, and that's better than just hope and a prayer, would you agree? And in the long run, I might collect a bit more pension. Medical bills are tax deductible, so all is not bad. My Plan is my good news. If more good news comes, I try to share . If I don't stay subscribed, you can say i took a bad turn.
The experts say bad news increases the pulse and body conductivity ( so one might sweat more). But reading your piece, my pulse is only 61. Your piece must be good news not bad.
As always, you' re my first morning important news, which is certainly not 90 % bad.
Winston:
We need real help for people who need care. That's you, me, people in my family. My friends. It's everybody.
We don't need super-expensive wastes of time and eventually money like all these schemes that were just substitiutes for helping people who need help.
We might need a stroke centre. We can build it somewhere else. We didn't need a massive new hospital, especially one we cannot afford and cannot staff.
Hope isn't a strategy but people need hope to not just live but to thrive. There is hope in a strategy that kills off wasteful brain farts and other superficial nonsense and delivers the care people need. We got half of that last week and I will keep my powder dry to see if the spring brings that small dose of common sense we have been missing for years.
If people want cat videos, AI slop, as John Gushue rightly calls it this morning over in his space, and other candy floss for their skulls, there's plenty of it out there. Danny Lovers used to tell me people would like me more if I said more nice things about Danny. Well, that's like telling as woman she is pretty and she should smile more so people would like her. That's bullshit and I don't do bullshit.
People didn;t vote for a new government to see more of the same. They want an end to the bullshit and more of the care they need. I hope we get it. And to do more than hope, I will keep acting to do my small paret, just like you act to improve your health or at least just stay alive. I've had arthritis since I was a teenager. I have some experience with your body crapping out while the still and mental parts remain vital. Aging is not for the weak of heart but we all have to deal with it and in that shared moment of humanity, we can find hope.
Hope isn't a strategy but it is fuel for action.
I haved hope and I keep having hope despite all the things and people I lampoon that should make me (and others) at the very least cynical if not outright depressed. I laugh because it is the only way I have to cope along side action.
This is a long rambling answer on a snowy February morning but I like to think that, if nothing else, people can see something in these rantings, typos and all, that give them something to perk up about. They can see others see what they do, feel as they do, and hope.
Every time you get out of bed you not only have hope for yourself but you give hope, by example if nothing else.
Hope is not a strategy.
You are right.
But without hope, there never can be a strategy.
We never can be.
If I am not giving hope with today's offering, then check back on Wednesday. I think that one has some hope in it.