Here Comes that Weekend

Gypsy

She's on top of her condo

and

ready for the weekend!

Happy Friday

are you ready for the

Labor Day Weekend?

Here in Florida it's soggy, with the weatherman letting us know that

"rain is in our forecast for the weekend"

and

ohhh how we have had the rain!

With each beat of the drums

the

Thunder beings have been playing

long and hard here,

Gypsy is just bound

to run out and join in song

as

she gets drenched here!

She is a funny little one

and has been ever so loving to her brother

Jeepers

as he continues on the mend!

We were ever so worried

but

he has turned the corner

on that tracheobronchitis

and

I am happy to say

NO COUGHING here!

We still have no

zoom zoom zoom

of

Nascar round the pool with the 4 leggeds

as the littles are still waiting for

Jeepers to recover,

but

we do have improvement.

Gypsy spends her days

playing with her toys, and often will go to

Jeepers and give him a loving nudge

or clean his eyes for him though!

It's good to be the

Gypsy!

And really not so good to be the

green monkey...

But here at home,

it is great to have and watch the 4 leggeds as they chase the thunder, watch the rain

and

love to be loved by their humans.

Patches

we hear the most from her

when the food is served

and for some reason she seems to think it is prepared for her and her alone!

this is her time to bark, and bark she does,

although I have never understood why

as she doesn't eat human food!

But from time to time

she will get a streak of fun that runs through her as she chases and engages with

the others, running and ducking

and

being her sneaky self!

Aren't the 4-leggeds just amazing?

Meanwhile Jeepers is laid back in paradise, and just enjoying the lovin... He is watching it all happen, and oh how he loves when his Auntie Sandy comes from next door, so he can then get on her lap and hit her hand with his paw as he demands her continual petting, loving and "goochie gooing" as she tells him of his beauty and cute factor!

While the other two

look at her in dismay

and

you could read their minds as they wonder,

"what are we ... chopped liver"

LOL

So then,

life is wonderful in the world of the

4-leggeds I'm thinking!

And for our Sandy?

She continues to state,

"Jeepers is my DOG" as she comes and loves on him, gives him that extra hugging and holding and checks him daily  between time of hard labor over there

at

"sootville" where improvements are being made with hard work and purpose and labor intensive mindsets of she and Stuart. they've come a long way, and still have such a long way to go.

the perp is still at large... but they know who it is; they know the affiliation and the closeness is disgusting, the wounds are deep.

BUT

they are survivors; now concentrating on restoring their home, and reclaiming their lives.

AND

the best news is; they come here and have Jeepers, Gypsy, and silly Patches to entertain them and divert their attention; they have us to break bread with

and

sit around the table with

and

rest their eyes and their minds from the tasks which some days are larger than any would want to conquer.

They appreciate the thoughts of all here.

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As we move into the weekend,

many will be firing up grills, getting out and about and on the roads for long weekends,

while others will be

"laboring" and working.

It's Labor day weekend,

and

many healthcare organizations will be just like any other day... folks will be at work!

In hospice, hospitals it is business as usual, folks will be at work!

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I heard a story yesterday that kept me up most of the night last night; a story that i will share in detail next week, and a story that I will use as a reminder to all who enter here.

It is a story to remind all:

WE ARE CONSUMERS in the world

of healthcare

 along with the world of anything else in which we purchase a good or service.

I will let you know now friends;

when you go to a physician, a therapist, a healthcare provider...

YOU are the consumer,

THEY have taken oaths to

"do NO HARM"

and

you must hold them to that oath.

so then...

If you are treated poorly by a physician

if you feel you are or have been abused or harmed

you have rights, and you have options

and

I encourage you to use them.

A good place to start

is with the

Licensing board of the Medical Board in the state you live;

*file a complaint*

*let your voice be heard*

*write a review on the web*

*enlist a friend for support and help*

*know that you are WORTH best care and practice*

*everyone who seeks care, needs to demand that they are treated with kindness, compassion and respect*

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 "It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class."

~Author Unknown

Now I don't know who the above author is, but what I do know is that many of those docs are also brilliant minds, but have absolutely no common sense, nor compassion.

AND

I also know it is past time

we hold them accountable to their oaths, their professions

and

we do that best by reporting their actions to the very professions they represent.

Once again I am reminded of the saying of

Dame Cicely Saunders,

"Care of the body means nothing without care of the soul" and in this friends,

many physicians are lacking

and

one physician who is an Oncologist/Hematologist/Gyno

is truly lacking

that I am now raging over in his treatment of a friend.

And to think

he has the nerve

to boast in his website that he cares for the

"surgical, medical, emotional, spiritual care of patients"

yet was abusive, abrupt, insensitive,

and

DID HARM to a patient

is unfathonable to me.

We must be advocates in our care, and in the advocacy of those we care for as consumers of health care

and

care of all and each other.

Nuff said to get your motors running

as

you

ZOOM into the weekend.

So then,

if you have some sun where you are,

get out there and

"outshine it friends"

A beautiful day is breaking here, with pinks, lavender

and lovely light blue beginning to show!

I wish you a brilliant weekend.

I hope you have your flags flying

and

or

have plans to get one and raise it high.

We are days away

from the anniversary of

9/11

WE WILL NEVER FORGET