TGIF

September 4, 2009 Friday

T.G.I.F. I had my MRI of my shoulder today. The least annoying of all the tests. I did have my shoulder all trussed up like a Turkey though. But I was a good girl, I didn't move so the session was shorter than the 45 minutes. Only 25 and I was done for the Labor Day Weekend. This is my new job. The hours are unpredictable, I have many bosses, and the pay is lousy! I can't believe I pay to work. Jeez~!

Ed is busy working around the house trying like mad to get everything in order before he leaves for Albany. Ian is cramming in the last minute days with his friends before school starts, and I have enrolled in the School of Survival. I am reading everything I can to understand what I can. Writing down questions to ask the doctors is my number 1 priority now. Number 1. Is this an outpatient procedure? Will I be out of the hospital within 24 hours!? I just read an article in the October 2009 issue of O magazine. I can't believe women have to check out of the hospital after having both breasts removed within 24 hours because the Insurance Companies value us so little. I wonder what their mothers think of those MEN in their expensive suits, driving their expensive cars, making decisions on how to hoard the money that hard working citizens give them to supposedly insure they will be taken care of. This makes me so hopping mad. You all know that if a man had to have his balls removed he'd get to stay for a week and get a massage everyday. Women are devalued. We are last in line for research, the studies are set up for men, not women. We carried our children for nine months, nursed them, cleaned them, feed them, clothed them, and gave up so much so they could have more. Then how is it these men, because let's face it, the majority of the decision makers at Insurance Companies are men, say, "Women can and should go home after losing their breasts within 24 hours." Okay. I'm on my high horse tonight. But really, people complain about Public Option and fear of having their "choices" taken away? I think we already don't get a say, and the doctors who know best are dictated to by "suits" who know NOTHING about medicine nor healing.

Things have to change, we deserve some respect, we deserve to stay in the hospital until the doctors say we can go home. Going home after having a baby within 24 hours is one thing. Major medical surgery.....ummm....jeez....

Anyway. Just soap boxing. I'm looking forward to a great weekend. Lunch with friends, perhaps Battery Park to go to the New Amsterdam Festival and pretending for the weekend that all is well.

Happy Labor Day Weekend, be sure to thank those who work hard for little money.

Nite!

Melissa