Evil Marge said:
That should suit you then seeing as some of these people with be OAP's :lick:
This is what I didn't really want to type this as you have got on your high Horse about it all.
This has been my past 12 days, I help out PT in an old Folks home in Sevenoaks, I listen to the residents, we talk about things in general, some of them are aged between 56 and 90, majority are 70 ish, there are 40 ish residents.
O.K. they need their backsides wiped, most of them are obese, they eat food which is liquadised, they sit around watching day time T.V. they don't go out as they can hardly walk, they need a harness as they're so weak to get into a bath, they are stuffed full of drugs to keep them alive, since January 28th 2005, 5 have died, the most recent 2 days ago, I put him to bed, he was 73, it was his birthday, his bloody daughter didn't even come and take him for a drive which she promised that till writing this pee'd me off, a Nurse came around 10 minutes later and he was dead.
He was removed taken to the mortary, 9 a.m. next day his bed was filled by another (new) resident. Felt like a cattle market.
All I hear when chatting, maybe morbid, is they wish they were dead. They tell me they are sick of taking pain killers, having tubes stuffed up their backsides to clean inside, tubes in their arms to feed them even more medicines, having people wipe their backsides, drugs to keep them alive basically. It's so sad. They pay £700 per week just for food and board, the NHS pays for the medicines, it's not a private home.
You write back like I am some bastard, au contrare it sadens me, the suffering, the pain and anguish.
I just cannot understand, (the topic thread it's meaning) why I should feel sorry for people that have unprotected sexual intercourse and catch H.I.V. We have known (well it was made very public) since 1984 about this, that's 21 years of adverts on T.V. about condoms, shows and billboards telling people to be safe, NHS handing out free condoms, to help people. I know people have caught this uncurable illness (virus) via blood transfusions, or some other means past on which they didn't know or were born with it. These, I feel , should be the ones that are helped financially.
Then someone mentioned Cancer, most people die of tobacco related Cancers, how long and how much are they going to waste telling people about the harmful affects of smoking.
Now you know why I wrote what I wrote, if not then I am at a loss.