Not A Good Week This! Can You Return A Bad One?

[Denzel]

Aye the NHS is a great thing really

Yep, it is.

[geordiegirl]

Hi Joe

I am very sorry to read about your illness. It really seems like you work your butt off to get to a point where you can enjoy life and then something happens. My mom was diagnosed with Lung Cancer in April of this year and moved from Bedlington to the US about 11 years ago. Now she is facing a medical bill of over $100,000.00 and they still can't tell her if it is in remission or not.

You honestly just have to take it one day at a time and really appreciate all that you have around you. Good luck

[Joe Rooney]

Hi Joe

I am very sorry to read about your illness. It really seems like you work your butt off to get to a point where you can enjoy life and then something happens. My mom was diagnosed with Lung Cancer in April of this year and moved from Bedlington to the US about 11 years ago. Now she is facing a medical bill of over $100,000.00 and they still can't tell her if it is in remission or not.

You honestly just have to take it one day at a time and really appreciate all that you have around you. Good luck

Thanks for the kind thoughts, Geordiegirl.

I actually dont give it much thought, until one or other of my rusty parts remind me!

Now that there is snow on the mountains, and the rabbits are turning white, I have to take steps to deal with the Angina pains. So I wear patches containing Nitrates and walk a little slower, (if that is at all possible!) But the cold days make my heart beat a little faster, and then I remember, "Oh yeah, I am supposed to slow down", to what? I barely move as it is, and all these little kids whizzing past me dont help!

But I am so thankful that we live in Canada, and have the benefit of a good, though not great, health system.

My wifes family still live in the US, and now that most are retired they live in terror of a major health problem. In weekly calls they have another horror story of one or another of my wifes friends who are facing bankruptcy for a family member who is hit with an enormously expensive medical bill.

The US government loves to criticise Canada's "Socialist" health care system, and although there is much to legitimately criticise, at least we dont stand smugly by as thousands of people lose all for health care.

But our own system faces real problems as many doctors simply pack up and move to the states for the vastly superior earnings that can be made there! Which I suppose, is balanced by the unreal awards for medical malpractice.

In which case the lawyers are the only people who benefit in the end.

I am truly sorry to hear of your mother's illness. She came to the US for a better life, and this is part of the american

experience. Give her my best wishes, and tell that every morning she wakes up is another day to enjoy.

Regards, and thanks, Joe Rooney

[geordiegirl]

Thanks for the kind thoughts, Geordiegirl.

I actually dont give it much thought, until one or other of my rusty parts remind me!

Now that there is snow on the mountains, and the rabbits are turning white, I have to take steps to deal with the Angina pains. So I wear patches containing Nitrates and walk a little slower, (if that is at all possible!) But the cold days make my heart beat a little faster, and then I remember, "Oh yeah, I am supposed to slow down", to what? I barely move as it is, and all these little kids whizzing past me dont help!

But I am so thankful that we live in Canada, and have the benefit of a good, though not great, health system.

My wifes family still live in the US, and now that most are retired they live in terror of a major health problem. In weekly calls they have another horror story of one or another of my wifes friends who are facing bankruptcy for a family member who is hit with an enormously expensive medical bill.

The US government loves to criticise Canada's "Socialist" health care system, and although there is much to legitimately criticise, at least we dont stand smugly by as thousands of people lose all for health care.

But our own system faces real problems as many doctors simply pack up and move to the states for the vastly superior earnings that can be made there! Which I suppose, is balanced by the unreal awards for medical malpractice.

In which case the lawyers are the only people who benefit in the end.

I am truly sorry to hear of your mother's illness. She came to the US for a better life, and this is part of the american

experience. Give her my best wishes, and tell that every morning she wakes up is another day to enjoy.

Regards, and thanks, Joe Rooney

Thank you so much Joe, You know when my mom was really sick an aunt of mine sent her a card, and she had written inside " When you feel like you have gotten to the end of your rope, tie a knot in the end and hang on" That has become my new motto to live by.

Take care of yourself

Linda