The" I shouldn't poke fun " Entry
Date: 22 March
Climate: still winter.
Eating: jellybeans
Drinking: diet coke
Feeling: meh
Listening to: All Things Considered
Watching: --
Reading:--
Okay so that last little cut and paste from Wonkette is very, very funny but its also quite a wake up call.
Talking with Julie about this last night, I was unfortunately prompted to remember my own mother's 3.5 month long coma/life support extravaganza during the summer before my senior year of college.
And this is what I have to say:
a) what is happening to this woman's family is extremely private and for all intents and purposes should have stayed that way;
b) my father was wrought with pressure from family members to make the right decisions as he had the power of attorney...my grandmother was crusading to do anything and everything to keep my mother alive, despite the outcome of what type of life she may or may not have IF she ever came out of the coma in any state that bore a resemblence to her old self;
c) I gather that these two parties are probably riddled with guilt over the fact taht they were unable to help this woman with her eating disorder which was the sleighride into this mess;
d) A parents concern will always be to protect and to ensure a childs life. Even if they're in their middle ages and the child is now a woman who has a husband who also loves her just as much as the parents;
e) A husband will no doubt be forced to look at what life will be life for their wife if they come out of this in one piece, and not in a segmented mental-physical relation where one part is "vegetative;"
f) You can bet your bottom dollar that the anti abortion right to life parade is next in this circus. Nothing is ever done in this extremely conservative administration without the foresight of Karl Rove, and with vacancies on the Supreme Court, they are merely prepping the country to move to the right with this "right to life" spin so they can usher in the abortion issue;
g) Since when did the US care so much about right to life? Oh wait, its selective right to life...don't kill the "babies" but cut the programs for the poor (leaving them to a "life" full of imbalances, inequalities, and injustices, but hey, they're alive)--sanction military officials to perform gross human rights injustices on people who they subjectively decide have less of a "right" to life than others based on their race, religious affiliation, and saddest of all, home country (iraqi prisoners anyone?)
h) I will never forget the humiliation, frustration, sadness, and pain my own mother went through in trying to recover from what happened to her. Yet I will never forget the sheer elation that we all felt when she came home alive and in one piece.
Date: 22 March
Climate: still winter.
Eating: jellybeans
Drinking: diet coke
Feeling: meh
Listening to: All Things Considered
Watching: --
Reading:--
Okay so that last little cut and paste from Wonkette is very, very funny but its also quite a wake up call.
Talking with Julie about this last night, I was unfortunately prompted to remember my own mother's 3.5 month long coma/life support extravaganza during the summer before my senior year of college.
And this is what I have to say:
a) what is happening to this woman's family is extremely private and for all intents and purposes should have stayed that way;
b) my father was wrought with pressure from family members to make the right decisions as he had the power of attorney...my grandmother was crusading to do anything and everything to keep my mother alive, despite the outcome of what type of life she may or may not have IF she ever came out of the coma in any state that bore a resemblence to her old self;
c) I gather that these two parties are probably riddled with guilt over the fact taht they were unable to help this woman with her eating disorder which was the sleighride into this mess;
d) A parents concern will always be to protect and to ensure a childs life. Even if they're in their middle ages and the child is now a woman who has a husband who also loves her just as much as the parents;
e) A husband will no doubt be forced to look at what life will be life for their wife if they come out of this in one piece, and not in a segmented mental-physical relation where one part is "vegetative;"
f) You can bet your bottom dollar that the anti abortion right to life parade is next in this circus. Nothing is ever done in this extremely conservative administration without the foresight of Karl Rove, and with vacancies on the Supreme Court, they are merely prepping the country to move to the right with this "right to life" spin so they can usher in the abortion issue;
g) Since when did the US care so much about right to life? Oh wait, its selective right to life...don't kill the "babies" but cut the programs for the poor (leaving them to a "life" full of imbalances, inequalities, and injustices, but hey, they're alive)--sanction military officials to perform gross human rights injustices on people who they subjectively decide have less of a "right" to life than others based on their race, religious affiliation, and saddest of all, home country (iraqi prisoners anyone?)
h) I will never forget the humiliation, frustration, sadness, and pain my own mother went through in trying to recover from what happened to her. Yet I will never forget the sheer elation that we all felt when she came home alive and in one piece.