I’ve tried all the remedies that all the good readers here have suggested, and tried the alcohol-related ones twice. Nothing. Still feel sick.
The coughing hasn’t subsided and it’s getting really annoying. Alby our dog gives me the evil eye now when I cough in the middle of one of her naps. I swear she used her paw to flip me the bird last night.
So I made the ultimate wiener move and caved to my symptoms. I called my doctor. You will help pay for it so I hope it works! I will see him later this morning.
Which got me thinking: My father-in-law is in hospital. He has terminal cancer, but is in hospital because he had a heart attack the other night. He’s also a diabetic. Yesterday for breakfast, they served him a bagel. That’s just wrong for a diabetic. So my mother-in law resolved to bring food in for him, which the staff there has no problem with. (Airlines happily arrange for kosher meals and vegetarian meals at 50,000 feet in a flying metal tube at 500 miles per hour, but state-run hospitals can’t figure out that feeding excess carbs to a dying diabetic with heart disease and cancer will literally risk his life. Vote liberal.)
But isn’t that two-tier-ish? You can’t, by law, pay for your own basic medical care in Canada. That’s against the law in Canada (and North Korea). You can’t bring in your own medical equipment and diagnostic equipment just because you can afford it. If there’s a delay getting a procedure for lack of equipment or staff, you can’t write a check and buy the equipment so they can give you the care you need. Yet somehow they’re OK with the private food thing.
Rich people would get better food, this way, than poor people. And proper nutrition is vital to health and healing. Aren’t liberals against this? Shouldn’t everyone suffer and die equally? Isn’t this a slippery slope to better health care? Aren’t liberals against that?
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