It's a New Year and it is acting just like the year I left. Went to work in 2010 and got off at 7:30 am on 2011. Yup, the air was just as cold and I was just as tired. I had the good luck of working extra shifts all weekend. And we were very very busy. I think that will be changing though.
Now in the new year everyone's new insurance is here. Rates skyrocketed and many things that were covered are no longer covered. I suspect we will get a lot more people who couldn't afford to get their medication filled and had another heart attack or go into congested heart failure more. It's not that patients are non-complient as much as they just can't afford the cure.
Well, I really didn't mean to start off the New Year on a bummer note. I just read another journal who was talking about how much their premiums went up, thinking about my son who now has no insurance and thinking about the patient I had earlier who couldn't afford the blood thinner that would have prevented his heart attack And thinking about the news that said that the most effective medication against breast cancer, the one with the highest success rate was being removed from the market because it was too expensive for most people. What happens to the money with all those pink sales? Someone gets rich I suspect. And I think about what will make it worthwhile for them to develop any new cures in the future is the majority won't be able to afford it or the insurance companies won't let you get it anyway. The dark ages of health care has arrived.
So this isn't getting any lighter is it. Ok. Let's see. I worked 13 hours last and slept. Getting up I poured myself one of the nastiest cups of coffee I have ever had. Then Rick asked me, What's for supper. Apparently the glare I gave him spoke a million words because I hear dinner being prepared in the kitchen. Don't get on my badside when I haven't had a decent cuppa. One more night of work. I am not looking forward to it. I have had a couple of severely confused patients all weekend. It wears you down. Neither of them sleep at all. I keep thinking today, one more night, one more night, one more night.
5 comments:
Love the train!!! I hope your next work night is better than the last..my health ins premiums are skyrocketing too. everything is out of control!!!
Your train has got my singing Jethro Tull - "In the shuffling madness, of the locomotive breath ...God stole the handle and the train won't stop going, no way to slow down." - Almost seems to fit. :)
Caregivingly Yours, Patrick
What a great train pic! You definitely have to buy a lottery ticket to win. I buy mine and in my demented little mind, I'm a millionaire until Sunday morning.
Jimmy
Happy belated New Year! May you and your family have a great year.
Well....if you can't let out your moans and groans amongst friends....where can you? lol
Better out than in I say.
You work so hard! You also see the results of all these insurance rates going up too. That's a helpless feeling when you are in a job to help humankind.
Poor Rick.lol
What would you do without him...hmmmm? Any chance of a cuppa decent coffee? lol
Happy New Year my friend.
Always look on the bright side of life......teedum etc.
Hugsies
Jeanie xxxx
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