Writers write
I am so grateful for your many heartfelt and touching condolences.
Thinking about the question of when to resume writing the blog, I think it’s a good idea for me to just plunge in – maybe not at quite the usual rate right away, though. I find that thinking about other things than myself and my own personal woes is a good distraction for me for a while each day.
Also, if you think about what makes a person want to write – and I certainly have thought about it – for most there’s an impulse to tell the tale. Although I’m not the most self-disclosing writer around – as you can tell from the green apple – I still feel compelled to tell what I’ve been going through or at least the part of it. So I plan to be adding some personal reflections on, for instance, how hospitals are run these days. I’ve had far more experience with that topic lately than I’d ever have liked.
I’ve had far more experience with that topic lately than I’d ever have liked.
I know the feeling. You are not alone.
I will look forward to hearing what you found in our hospital situation. I have had occasion to take my wife to the hospital several times in the past year — usually starting at the ER — and I can say I have not been impressed. I suspect I am not alone in that feeling.
Care for yourself, then by all means write. We all look forward to what you write.
I also have had more experience than I would wish for as well.
I’m suspecting that service has declined dramatically when the names started changing from Grace Hospital (where both my wife and I were born), Providence, Sinai Hospital, St. Jude, St. Joseph, (see the pattern?) to the Grace L. Ferguson Hospital and Storm Door Company, Corwell, Henry Ford East (North, South, Rochester, Troy), etc. I’ve heard it said often enough that the “shareholders need to make a profit”. When we were young(er), I don’t think the standard was how much profit a hospital (or doctor) could make. Shoot, I remember Dr. Marcot used to make house calls on his was home after office hours to check on his patients. Admittedly, that was the 1950s in a rural community, but still…
Maybe hospitals should go back to being non-profits.