My Mom and I, we used to talk.
My Mom and I, we could talk about anything. I liked talking with my Mom. My Mom and I, we had good talks, great, deep, wonderful conversations.
I believe it was when I was home from college. My Mom told me that she had had a TIA, more than one TIA.
Transient Ischemic Attack = TIA.
I am not a Doctor. Don’t come to me looking for medical advice. But I can, I will tell you via experience and with confidence, in layman’s terms, a TIA, a TIA, it is - a mini Stroke.
For all of my Mom’s adult life, she had high blood pressure, HBP. It was in the DNA. It was common in her family. It was in the flock. It came with the Peeps.
HBP - high blood pressure, it’s not that big a deal.
Again, I am not a Doctor, but from experience, I know that there are several classifications of pills, good, well proven, developed by God given big brain people, pharmaceutical drugs are available. There are good drugs, drugs that do a wonderful job, treating HBP.
But here is THE Thing, A Thing. My Mom, you see, Some Thing, something in her head, a programming thing, she had - This Thing. I’m not a Psychologist any more than I am a Medical Doctor, but I am a Son. I tell you, from stark, hard earned experience, my Mom, she had a couple of bugs, bugs in her programming.
My Mom’s Physician, a person who spent a whole bunch of years attending schools and jumping through hoops, that person, where I come from, we call them Medical Doctors - MDs. MDs, they practice science, they apply science that they have studied and learned, to help people with medical conditions.
One such person, a MD, a person with a good reputation, acting in good faith, that person prescribed pills, very good, pharmaceutical grade - pills to treat a diagnosed condition, my Mom’s HBP.
And I’m going to jump here, a mental leap… stay with me.
My Mom and my Country…
There are many, many parallels in their stories.
My Mom, my Country, both so close to me. What I see. What I saw.
My Mom’s bugs, errors in programming, something with the Psychology, it made her - not like taking pills. Something in my Mom’s programming made her associate medicine with age, getting old. Getting old, medicine, pills, doing what urgently needed to be done, somehow, for some (faulthy) reason, it was seen as bad.
Doing what was needed. It did not get done.
So the God given, big brain Doctors, Pharmacist, years of evolution working in good faith and with great effort - to help Peeps, Flocks, Chicks, People - like my Mom diagnosed with a simple condition, HBP…
All the Kings Horses, and all the Kings Men, they could not make my Mom take the pills, to treat the common condition, and keep the Patient, my Mom, well. The science that God gave to the Doctors to apply to the people, to help God’s people, like my Mom… no one could apply the science all the way through - to the last mile. My Mom, she would not take, not as prescribed, not as needed, my Mom would not take the medicine.
With Bugs In The Programming, the God given science, the (good) science hit a roadblock.
Did you make the leap? Can you see it? Both dear to me, my dear Mom, and my beloved Country.
Something with the programming… bugs. Good medicine, it goes wasted.
My Mom, my dear Mom. I loved my Mom. She is gone.
And now You - Country, and I’m not just talking COVID, or medicine,
Country, dear Country, I am talking about so much more.
Sickness is running rampant across the land. There are bugs in your programming.
Country, land that I love…. I sound the alarm. I ride through your streets on horseback. I call out… Code RED.
Bugs. Y2K, bugs. It’s not too late to work out the bugs.
Work out the bugs Country, pronto. Fix your programming. Work out the bugs.
My Mom, she’s gone. She is not coming back. I miss my Mom.
Country, please don’t leave me.
Country, please don’t let - the lights go out, the curtain - come down.
Hear me. Heed me. Please. We still have time. Please Country, please.
His mom and my mom = Same Mom. She told me her pills were expensive so she was only taking half the recommended dosage ~She thought she was being smart and it killed her. I am her son - Now retired, my wife and I, on Medicare with expensive supplemental BC/BS policy. Our share with that coverage in annual Rx Prescription Co-Pay 2021 was $15,000.00. (Yes, Fifteen Thousand out of pocket at the pharmacy in co-pays) My Moms viewpoints were part of the problem - YES, but our For Profit Health Care System supporting thieving Drug and Insurance Companies is a Huge Part of the problem also. They benefit while the patients and Doctors lose out. SAD. :(
The child who does not trust good care... I don't know where this quote comes from. I think of trust and suspicion and being fearful about uncertainty (if that makes sense). I don't think anyone is free of programming bugs (biases). I do know that the impact of programming bugs can be decreased if a person wants to work on it. I think we have this in common. We are both working on it.