Bertha’s latest trip to the hospital is a good description of what is really going on in hospitals today. On her most recent visit to the ER, she entered with her paperwork to explain her medical issues. Diverticulitis and Kidney stones are the things that can take down many a male and female. She being a sheep was no different. Her issues with vomiting and repeat visits from Montezuma were no laughing matter. The girl was in serious pain. She quietly took her turn waiting with the other humans, not expecting special treatment or white privilege. The opera by the two moaning divas was surprisingly not coming from her. She did hope either they were having a good time knocking boots or were getting treatment for that case of whatever. Her name got called and she walked into the exam room, fur disheveled as if she sat in a schwitz, weak, breath of snarl, and just utter pain. There was no mistake the woman was in severe pain.
They sent her to wait a little longer still, then called her once more to follow the nurse to the utter abyss. Was it a repeat of covid, had there been an outbreak of Trump, was the plumbing broken? Let’s look at the last one, her plumbing was broken, she suffered from multiple issues causing blockages, extreme pain, and her pain. Thankfully it was not covid, and yes, all of this mess was caused by Trump and his miserable deal.
It was a sea of gurneys filled with moaning. No it was not a Diddy party, rather a group of very sick, sad, miserable people. The two halls were filled with the same thing on both sides with only one and a half bathrooms to use for all. It was too much for the poor girl and she began to snarf. Oh Hell NO, this had to be a mistake, but the nurses stated due to overcrowding and not enough rooms, the overflow was kept there until one opened up. She winced in pain, then claimed her gurney and curled up. Her nurses were kind enough, they were not the problem. The system failed all of us. Twelve hours later, she was granted a room with a lovely lady. The problem was how to mount the bed. It was not made for a sheep with short legs. The poor dear kept trying to climb it like Mount Jenga, only to land on her toucas. If it had been sex that could have been one thing, but she was trying to climb on top and in, so the nurses could put iv’s in her arms. Then came the questions.
Ever since Trump came into office, the questions asked became more and more personal and had nothing to do with medicine. “What was her religious preference? NUNYA. Was she on the pill? No. Was she pregnant? She is a transgendered sheep. Was she born in the US? The woman was a transplant. Was she documented? She had her shots and was fixed thank you. It went on and on, until the dance of the eyes occurred with the nurse. If Bertha wasn’t in such pain that woman would have had a serious bite on her toucas. She began to mover her items to the window cill, and they were grabbed and thrown into a bin. It was ON. Bertha felt a weave war mounting and not in a good way. Thankfully it was time for that witch to go home. Bertha snarfed and climbed into the bed after making one last climb moaning and groaning until she arrived, looking disheveled and needing a cigarette. All of that due to a mattress made for humans made in Russia. How Trump does it we don’t know. We don’t want to know.
This of course is based on real events suffered by the writer using humor to describe what is a very unfunny situation that has taken hold of the American people. Our healthcare is under attack, Hospitals are facing huge budget cuts, nurses are working overtime with insufficient pay, and doctors are crying foul. Humans, if they can get healthcare are facing high premiums, long waits in the ER, only to be sent to situations like the one described above. There is no good excuse for it, none. Donald cannot make this go away. The public is suffering and nobody is immune. It doesn’t matter how wealthy, or whose your daddy, or baby mama. It does not care if you are famous or infamous. Nobody is immune. We witnessed firsthand elderly, middle class, the rich, and a few of the very rich on those gurney’s. People waiting for transplants, operations, who were in excruciating pain as we were, having to lie on a gurney too small for most people, the noise level too loud to obtain any rest. Unless one was given high doses of Morphine and happened to be in LaLa land, from the meds, you did not sleep.
Once a bed was found, you were so exhausted, you could barely speak coherently. Yes, we would like to use the loo, and puke and crash when we hit the bed. Both Bertha and the writer did all literally and physically. We were the lucky ones. How about those without health insurance? It used to be if you landed in the hall, on a gurney, you had no health insurance. Now everyone is treated that way. Those who can make the needed changes to policy to prevent this from continuing refuse to do so. Do they really think they would get better treatment? As If. They will get fired by Donald and end up like the rest of us. That is reality folks.
Donald et all are desperate to maintain status quo or worse. That is not what the founding fathers fought and died for. The current financial situation is no laughing matter. We see things on the news but think it can’t ever happen to us. It can and it is happening. It is alarming how hospitals are giving up and just tolerating it. No, it’s not to be tolerated, it is time to rage against the demented. This is still our country, all of ours. It does not care what color, choice, political affiliation, size, shape. Both sides are suffering.
There is no magic pill, or procedure to make it go away. Think again please, you give too much freedom to convicted criminals in chief. No KKK or whatever they call themselves have a right to inflict any of this on any of us. Their guns will never make up for what they lack in the sack. Screeching like hyenas and beating themselves off won’t either. Yeah, we went there. No we don’ t want to change our post. We won’t be silenced or told to go away. Until things change, expect us to be in your faces, telling the truths you do not want out. Epstein is the tip of the iceberg folks. He is a wag the dog to keep Donald et all out of jail. No, we the people won’t be silenced, we are living the nightmare on Trump Street, and we are done with him and all who back him.
I won’t name the hospital, it’s a major one in Mo. But it could be in any state, city, and the people have had enough. No more interviews to find out your personal information not connected to healthcare. It is a witch hunt. If you are paying Medicare and get billed for a room, and it’s a gurney, sorry, your money should stay in your pocket. No more picking the pockets of the people.
You have a choice folks, don’t let any of this become the norm. It is not the norm. Nothing about this normal. It is criminal, we are getting abused and lied to and cheated. To the doctors and nurses who treated me, thank you. To those who suffered thru me, my sympathies. To Donald Trump and Mike Johnson, your day is coming. You will lose this farce.
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