Lotus had a dentist appt today. (2 cavities--eek)
But the thing that has been going through my mind was a conversation with the staff of her pediatric dentist's office.
I overheard a phone call that the assistant took. The side I heard went like this.
"Are you a new patient?"
Pause
"We're always happy to have new patients. Let's see when we can get you in."
Pause.
"I'm glad to answer any questions."
Pause
"I'm sorry. I don't know the political leanings of the doctors. I've never asked them."
(This is when I started listening.)
"Well, they don't tell me who they voted for as they are cleaning a child's teeth. Nor would I want them to."
Pause.
Long pause.
"Ma'am, I'm sorry, I will not answer that."
I could hear some squawks from the phone now.
"Ma'am, My vote and my political leanings are no one's business but my own. And I will not ask my coworkers who they voted for."
Pause
"Well I'm sorry you feel that way."
The secretary hang up the phone.
I went over to her. "Did she just ask you---"
"if we are Trump Supporters, yes. She's not the first. Won't be the last." I said she handled it well and they called Lotus back so I went with my kid.
Never would I ask a doctor who they voted for. Never. It is totally irrelevant. I'm stunned. I don't know if the person on the phone wanted a Trump supporter or not, but I don't care. This is something that is just wrong.
I do not support the current administration and I have no problem saying that.
If I were in an ambulance what I want is my doctor's skill. I want my doctor's knowledge. Even in this horrific political climate the last thing I'm thinking about is who my doctor voted for. I trust the medicine. I trust the knowledge.
I have a right to know where he or she went to school. I have a right to know if there are cases pending against him or her. I have no right to know his or her political affiliation, religion, or sexual orientation.
And I don't care.
This pediatric dentist is amazing. They paint my daughter's nails so she sits still to let the nail polish dry as they check her teeth. She leaves the office smiling.
That's all I care about.
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Monday, December 18, 2017
Friday, May 5, 2017
Christian Does Not Equal Good
So 217 members of the United States House of Representatives have decided that they want to be mass murderers.
The vast majority of these people identify themselves as Christians.
Accordion to Merriam Webster the word Christian means someone who professes belief in the teachings of Jesus Christ. I decided to look through my husband's bible to see exactly where they might be taking their inspirations. What I read was surprising.
These people should be acting according to Philippians 2:4:
"not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others."
Or maybe Proverbs 3:27:
"Do not withhold good to those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act."
Maybe Romans 12:13:
"Share with the Lord's people who are in need. Practice hospitality."
Because this is blog post and not a bible study I will end with this one.
James 2:14-17
"14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith obut does not have works? Can that faith save him? 15 pIf a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, 16 qand one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good2 is that? 17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead."
This is not how the 217 members acted. They have decided to kill people. I'm tired of prettying it up. By their actions they knew that people were going to die and they decided to do it. People with pre-existing conditions cannot pay for the extra care and they want to defund Medicaid. This will kill people.
These people are the same ones (mostly) who look at the survivors of gun violence and refuse to make any laws restricting gun ownership. Understand right now, with the bill that they passes, that a mentally ill person can get a gun--but not help.
For a long time, when you said "I'm too much of a Christian" to do thus and so it meant you were too good. The quote I think of is in The Wizard of Oz.
Aunt Em: "Elmyra Gulch just because you own half the county doesn't mean you have the power to run the rest of us. For twenty-three years, I've been dying to tell you what I thought of you. And now, well, being a Christian woman, I can't say it!"
We are meant to think that because she is just a good person, she can't say what she thinks. Maybe when this was made it was truer. But after watching this Congress, who maintain their Christianity, the quote I think of most is from The Princess Bride.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Good people can be Christians. But it takes a lot more than being Christian to be good.
The vast majority of these people identify themselves as Christians.
Accordion to Merriam Webster the word Christian means someone who professes belief in the teachings of Jesus Christ. I decided to look through my husband's bible to see exactly where they might be taking their inspirations. What I read was surprising.
These people should be acting according to Philippians 2:4:
"not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others."
Or maybe Proverbs 3:27:
"Do not withhold good to those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act."
Maybe Romans 12:13:
"Share with the Lord's people who are in need. Practice hospitality."
Because this is blog post and not a bible study I will end with this one.
James 2:14-17
"14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith obut does not have works? Can that faith save him? 15 pIf a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, 16 qand one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good2 is that? 17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead."
This is not how the 217 members acted. They have decided to kill people. I'm tired of prettying it up. By their actions they knew that people were going to die and they decided to do it. People with pre-existing conditions cannot pay for the extra care and they want to defund Medicaid. This will kill people.
These people are the same ones (mostly) who look at the survivors of gun violence and refuse to make any laws restricting gun ownership. Understand right now, with the bill that they passes, that a mentally ill person can get a gun--but not help.
For a long time, when you said "I'm too much of a Christian" to do thus and so it meant you were too good. The quote I think of is in The Wizard of Oz.
Aunt Em: "Elmyra Gulch just because you own half the county doesn't mean you have the power to run the rest of us. For twenty-three years, I've been dying to tell you what I thought of you. And now, well, being a Christian woman, I can't say it!"
We are meant to think that because she is just a good person, she can't say what she thinks. Maybe when this was made it was truer. But after watching this Congress, who maintain their Christianity, the quote I think of most is from The Princess Bride.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Good people can be Christians. But it takes a lot more than being Christian to be good.
Monday, August 29, 2016
Microblog Mondays - her pain and my pain
So today we brought Lotus to the doctor for her four year old well visit.
She's on target physically and developmentally.
She needed shots, but as she is fighting a cold the Dr. said we'd wait on those.
But she needed bloodwork done and we went to the lab to do it. The tech was as lovely as can be. However Lotus wasn't buying it. She started to cry once the tie went around her arm. "I don't want you to do this! I don't want this!" My eyes started to tear up even as I had to hold her down. Afterwards she stopped crying and even gave the tech a high-five.
My mind went back to when we first brought her home and took her to the international adoption specialist. It took three people to hold my baby down and one to do the test. I was in tears as I listened to her screaming. When the Dr. handed her to me afterwards she stopped in seconds. The doctor looked at me. "Good bonding," she said. It was true.
I think of all the health stuff we've been through since. How her pain is my pain--good bonding indeed.
She's on target physically and developmentally.
She needed shots, but as she is fighting a cold the Dr. said we'd wait on those.
But she needed bloodwork done and we went to the lab to do it. The tech was as lovely as can be. However Lotus wasn't buying it. She started to cry once the tie went around her arm. "I don't want you to do this! I don't want this!" My eyes started to tear up even as I had to hold her down. Afterwards she stopped crying and even gave the tech a high-five.
My mind went back to when we first brought her home and took her to the international adoption specialist. It took three people to hold my baby down and one to do the test. I was in tears as I listened to her screaming. When the Dr. handed her to me afterwards she stopped in seconds. The doctor looked at me. "Good bonding," she said. It was true.
I think of all the health stuff we've been through since. How her pain is my pain--good bonding indeed.
Monday, August 1, 2016
Microblog Mondays - Mammogram
Today I had a mammogram.
I had been having pain in my left breast, and the doctor, after ruling out heart stuff sent me to get a mammogram.
I hate getting mammograms. I really do. My mom had breast cancer, beat it, and died of uterine cancer but I remember that horrible year very much.
I also have large breasts that don't like being squished.
But I have a girl who would be devastated if something happened to me so I went. I am fortunate, they have a radiologist there who will tell me what they see.
Nothing. Scan came back clear.
Exhale.
Okay.
I had been having pain in my left breast, and the doctor, after ruling out heart stuff sent me to get a mammogram.
I hate getting mammograms. I really do. My mom had breast cancer, beat it, and died of uterine cancer but I remember that horrible year very much.
I also have large breasts that don't like being squished.
But I have a girl who would be devastated if something happened to me so I went. I am fortunate, they have a radiologist there who will tell me what they see.
Nothing. Scan came back clear.
Exhale.
Okay.
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