Thominism

During a recent hospital stay I was again amazed and disheartened by the waste of time and money by our "corperate geniuses". The nursing staff was awesome, they never stop, they were either writing reports, delivering drugs or going to someones aid. There is no longer much time for them to "check up" on patients, to bring comfort or assurance to the sick or scared . There numbers have been cut so drastically that it appeared every minute is now accounted for. The people that had time to speak with the patients were a different story all together. They had all kinds of time, they were dressed emaculately, and were asking us all kinds of really important questions like, " How do you like the way this chart looks?" or " would you like the chart on this wall or over there by the window?" These were charts the nurses would have to fill out, they contained information about when we would eat, when the meds would come around, when we would be taken f...

Lora and I go for alot of long walks. It's good excersize and a great time to be alone to talk about everything and anything. The areas we walk are very nice, the kept up houses, the green grass and trees, cats, dogs, squirrels, rabbits, even some people occasionally break free from their computers and TV's to enjoy the outdoors. It's really very nice. However....... There seems to be an ever growing amount of garbage along the roadways. A couple of times I brought garbage bags to clean up on our walk and was overwhelmed by the accumulation of garbage in such a small area. The thought of how many people must think nothing of throwing their filthy, smelly used up trash on other peoples property makes me fighting MAD. On recent walks I noticed a couple of discarded plastic bags of garbage on the shoulder of the road, so tonight (garbage night) when I took out the trash I walked down the highway a couple hundred yards to pick them up, to my, perhaps naive, amazement I fo...