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Re: Nick And The Not So Happy Hospitalist

AlisonHymes — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:33:12 -0000

That should be uninformed don't live as long as informed..... :)

Re: Nick And The Not So Happy Hospitalist

AlisonHymes — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:32:28 -0000

As a kidney patient the answer was always fellow kidney patients who have developed great listservs and bulletin boards and education programs full of information so one can be more informed when making such decisions. I still belong to a transplant listserv now and learn things all the time from it. Not sure if other health conditions have as many resources, since you are a kidney patient for life once you are a kidney patient there is more time for development of knowledge. There is the thought that uninformed dialysis patients don't live as long as uninformed ones but I don't know if there has been a study to prove it yet. Certainly the informed dialysis and transplant patients I have known have outlived expectations.......

Re: Nick And The Not So Happy Hospitalist

AlisonHymes — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:59:08 -0000

Um, he has time to post 2 to 3 times a day to a blog but complains about patients taking up his time? I'm sorry, I don't get it. And I'm really tired of this trope : "you hate the rich", nobody hates the rich, the rich hate the poor and our society reflects that in every way. We could do with a little more actual hating the rich instead of falling for the trap of thinking some day we will be one of them as so many do and fight an inheritance tax they themselves would never ever pay. Good for you speaking up Nick.

Re: R.I.P. Del Martin

AlisonHymes — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:34:42 -0000

So sad.
Time to break out their book again, may not have been the first book of its kind, I don't know, but the first one most women of my generation read. _Lesbian Woman_ by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, my copy is now in my hands, let me go look if it is still in print. Looks as if it's out of print, have to get it from a used book store. RIP Del Martin.

Re: You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me

AlisonHymes — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:06:05 -0000

Kaine just declined to intervene in another execution in Virginia last week. How is that anti-death penalty exactly? He's limited to one term because Virginia is the only state with one term and that's it for Governors, it's not as if intervening in executions would keep him from being re-elected. Saying you are against the death penalty while issuing official statements on a regular basis that you decline to intervene in actual executions doesn't strike me as exactly anti death penaly but maybe I'm just too literal minded? Kaine isn't that bad? Do you live in Virginia? Ask someone who does. He's pathetic.

Re: More on Knoxville Church Shooting

AlisonHymes — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:34:37 -0000

Why was he able to purchase a gun? His name should have been on the gun registry after a restraining order was filed against him. Of course there are millions of names missing from the federal gun registry, most of them people with restraining orders and criminals but Congress passed a law to pay to put everyone who has ever been committed, violent or not, mostly not, on the List, not to pay for those with domestic violence records to be put on the list by states. When is this country going to take domesstic violence seriously? I even know a woman who was committed by her abusive husband when he was in an alcoholic rage, years in the system and no one asked a word about him until I told her to tell them, now they are treating her completely differently and finally addressing her abuse issues. But he's free to attack her anytime. My condolences to all who lost loved ones. hate speech breeds hateful acts, not in everyone but in some. What's so hard to understand about that? Hate crimes don't happen in a vacuum.

Re: You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me

AlisonHymes — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:15:37 -0000

I live in Virginia. If Kaine is the VP candidate I need to seriously move to Canada. Death penalty? He's against it but signs death warrants. Disability rights? He won political points by scapegoating the entire population of folks with mental illness in our state after Virginia Tech. while praising the University for messing up and the mental health system for messing up and everyone else who messed up, no it was the fault of every member of the most despised minority group. Than he passed laws that did nothing but make the problem worse. We will soon have no voluntary psychiatric beds left in this state, soon as in probably right now in my region. And voluntary community services? Not so much, in fact a lot less. Kaine is pro-business and anti-union. Kaine has done nothing for anyone who isn't middle class in this state. I can't believe they are considering him again, I thought that was over. WTF? Can I scream now?

Re: But I Bet Phil Gramm Can Still Afford to Buy a Clue

AlisonHymes — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:00:58 -0000

I'm sorry your husband lost his job. I continue to be amazed by the lack of empathy of so many on the right including for those on fixed incomes who have no way to raise their income due to age or disability causing inability to go to work. One would think "family values" would extend to our oldest members of society and people of any age with living with severe disabilities and medical conditions, but apparently not.

Re: We Live in a Fucked-up Country

AlisonHymes — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:33:53 -0000

No, there isn't a national list for potential living donors. Anyone who wants to consider living donation should carefully research the risks, discuss with family and their doctor and if they still want to do it call their local transplant center for more infomration. Some transplant centers however will not accept altruistic living donors to non-family members or friends. I believe the Mayo clinic and John Hopkins are 2 that do. The risks are not negligible even for kidney living donation including decreased kidney function 7 years post donation in most donors. Why I would not accept a living donor personally but can not speak nor decide for anyone else in my situation.

Re: Quote of the Day

AlisonHymes — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:55:15 -0000

Yes, that and the Crazysphere remarks. Lots of bad behavior in this world, the vast majority of it is acted out by people with no psychiatric labels/disabilities so the reality that some bad behavior may arise out of psychological issues, generally in people without diagnoses as such, is no reason to associate everyone with mental illness with bad behavior. The folks who locked up a man who speaks only Spanish in isolation for 20 years in my local state hospital and the folks who kept quiet about it and the folks who refused to do anything about it when it was brought to their attention like our Commissioner, none of them have psychiatric disabilities nor labels.

Re: Quote of the Day

AlisonHymes — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:03:03 -0000

Oh. I saw the bit about ablism not being acceptable here and thought it was a safe space. I see I was wrong. Psychiatric disabilitiy is a disability and calling unacceptable or bad behavior sick and in need of therapy is ablist towards people with psychological and/or psychiatric disabilities. So never mind, I should have known better than to venture out of the disability friendly small part of the blogosphere.