Bye bye hospital...I am in the car going home. I am three days old. xo
And, my features are just like my daddy's!!!!!!! But, I have my mother's Italian like skin.
The co-sleeper her daddy made..hmmmm She no like.
I do believe , however, that her screams are in perfect pitch like her mother .
She wants to be held and sleep in her mother's arms. I do not blame her.
She has been through a lot too.
Rosie, the dog, meets Aoife.
Grandma here is unfocused and befuddled....must be Aoife's fault...Love, you know!!.
Tonight I had a great cul-de-sac get together with my widow group.
Thank you Pat and friends!!!
So nice to be out and safe and laughing.
Lovely Civil War Repros...Make me want to sew again.
The children left today for a week with their mother.
The sound of silence is so comforting. I want to stay up all night and sew!!
For some reason...I want to make civil war quilts..
However, instead,I will soon be looking for sheep and chicken patterns
in Anna Marie and Denise Schmidt's fabric styles.
Interesting post!
Just thinking and being happy for my daughter.
Aoife is just lovely.
My daughter has great health insurance. Her husband works for an Irish company, but he lives in Portland.
This birth came with a private nurse and a suite so the daddy could sleep in his own bed.
Meantime, My son went to the low-fee clinic yesterday after waiting a week for his appt.
They told him that it was a $50 co-pay. He said that he did not have it and that is why he was at that clinic. They told him that they would not see him without the $50.
He begged them..His wrist hurt very badly. It is now 2 weeks since his accident.
He reached into his pocket and pulled out $3. The clerk said OK...We will take it.
He saw his doctor who then said...Oh, we do not do casts here...we have to send you to low-fee clinic number two...downtown. They will call you for an appointment in the next two weeks.
He was so disgusted at being rejected at clinic number two that last night he headed downtown to the main hospital. They took the $40 I had given him. Then, the doctor told him that emergency rooms do not put casts on... He is still in pain with no help.
Now my son is a great worker. He has two years of college in automotives.
He is a car mechanic. He cannot work with a broken wrist and meniscus tear.
On the way out of the clinic, he saw two older women being escorted out by security guards.
They were crying. Evidently the clinic had screened everyone for Covid and given them a yellow sticker for clearance.
The women had stepped outside for a minute...and were not allowed back in because they had been outside.
Now their Covid testing stickers were no good. These women did not understand the process.
There was no one kind to explain it.
They, too had to go home without healthcare.
Escorted away by security guards????!!!!! Really??
I am becoming radicalized...(again)
A country like ours without healthcare is a sin.
Now, so many more are without insurance...due to losing jobs with the virus.
Thank you for listening to my rant.
We cannot be the only family whose finances have been ravaged by catastrophic disease
Healthcare for ALS stole our money
Healthcare for Parkinsons stole my mother's money
And so it went....and so it goes..
Interesting here:
Trouble here...so annoying. I had this vintage green from the 30's that I had purchased from an estate sale. I think the color is distorted on this picture...I also had a pack of 30's reproduction fabric cut
5x10 inches. Brilliant me sewed along all of them to make an elongated triangle...OOOOPPPS
I drew the line diagonally like I do for HSTs WRONG!!!!!
I have now wasted my precious fabric...What to do now??? OMG How did I do this??
Thank you all for the nice welcomes on my blog for the arrival of Aoife.
I certainly plan to keep boring you all with her progress and her beauty!!
After all, that is what a grandma does!
xo
8 comments:
The thought of no healthcare is so very alien to me. I can't understand how any medically trained person could turn your son away without treatment. Have you thought of setting up a 'go fund me' page. I would be more than happy to chip in a little bit
Healthcare is so necessary for every individual. It needs to be one of the issues we look at when we vote each and every election. Some things are broken but I do believe they can be fixed.
Please keep sharing everything you can about Aoife. She is an angel.
Your "wrong" triangles look like the beginnings of a kaleidoscope or spider web block to me. So, not "wrong", just different than planned, like life!
If you didn't post pictures of Aoife and brag on her, we would worry about you and be disappointed that we were missing out.
Is Eamon keeping his wrist in a brace to keep immobile? I'm sure he is frustrated and I am willing to help fund his medical costs. I am dumbfounded that ER referred him to Ortho for a cast. What ER did he go to? He needs to keep his wrist stable and not use that hand. The knee cap? Is the friend, the owner of the motorbike helping him out? I have a leg brace from an ACL surgery (Right leg). I'm sorry for the additional stress this is and I hope it is resolved soon. I miss seeing you and I hope YOU are well, it seems so. Let me know if I can be of help.
Congrats on the birth of Aoife and her arrival home! It's so nice to have something to celebrate in these difficult times. I hope you enjoy the quiet of this week.
Healthcare in the US frustrates me to no end too. And if you don't have the money, you are treated so poorly. I think you should be able to sew your triangles together to make some kind of shape, add some corners to make it into a square.
Twice I have left my email address as a reply on my blog when you asked for it.
Diane, I just cannot comprehend that in this day and age accessing health care such as your son needs is proving impossible!! The man has a broken arm for goodness sake, how on earth can they not fix it for him. Your post with these details has made me so mad, not at you but for what you're having to endure now, and what your family has had to deal with.
Rant all you want, you have folks who listen. On a happier note what a darling treasure Aoife Rose is, love the way Rosie the dog is making her acquaintance.
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