As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I am furious after reading a note from the Viking as it touched on a conversation I had with a tow truck driver in December when the service mechanics almost blew up my engine and we had to be hauled into town.
He was upset that his elderly neighbor was in a bad way. His point was she was over 90 years old and was perfectly healthy, but her doctor decided she needed a colonoscopy. He said the woman was over 90 years old so what the hell were they going to do with her if they found something as the treatment would have killed her, the operation would have killed her as she was over 90 years old.
What that doctor did was a procedure in just padding the bill for profit.
we all dropped in on Gramma (Mom) Saturday, in the middle of her physical therapy session at the Presbyterian Home she chose to go to for rehab to her domicile (so many details about pain here and there and monumental efforts made by homes and hospitals to diagnose, and all seemingly set-off by her doctor deciding to give her the purgatory procedure preceding a colonoscopy, which he has become subsequently sorry for, as it so weakened her she fell off a chair in her dressing closet, unleashing a whole lot of pain beyond management by herself alone, and now down to a wisp of a woman
I do not mean to upset the Viking or his family with this, but I want every one of you reading this to understand the risks involved with being scoped in the elderly. From what I understand the people are put under, and in the tow truck operator's neighbor that fog never left his neighbor as she was over 90 years old. I can not tell people what to do on procedures, but this is the second time in a few months in which I have heard a story like this.
I apologize to the Viking for letting emotion get a hold of me, but it seems a reality now in this medical world that families are going to have to DDP, Deny Doctor Procedures in weighing the benefits of "finding something" to the necessity actually needing a treatment.
I know sometimes it is a rock and a hard place. My 103 year old great Aunt had an intestinal blockage, and the operation killed her. She was going to die anyway, so the operation probably made it quicker in it being more humane.
In all other situations though people are going to have to weigh the benefits to the risks. It is like Mom here in the eye doctor wanted to put drops in her eyes, and I told her to tell him no, which sent him into a tizzy, and then he was wanting a cataract operation. I told him that we had a cousin who was blinded by that operation and he said, "Oh that is rare". He then came up with he could do nothing for her in glasses, but as she could see and read,...........I repeat she can see and read, so why the hell are they cutting on her eyes for?
All this was for was an ID, as she does not drive, but I thought she might as well keep her license in case of an emergency.
Again the point in all of this is Mom is just fine, just like lots of older people who are getting by with being old.
I want to end this with what a doctor told my brother. He said, "Doctors don't cure a thing. We just make things go a bit faster at times as people get better on their own.".
God bless the Viking and his Mom in Jesus Name Amen and Amen
agtG
