Re: Tough topic....
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Glad to hear your boy is doing better. I can only imagine your stress and worry over the illness. When our youngest was born the doctor detected a heart murmur that had to be monitored and during that period the stress and worry were immense (all turned out well - the doctor had said it would either require different treatments or more commonly, just go away. And that is what it did). I think the curious human mind will always push us toward solutions and attempts at a better life regardless of cost. On top of that, there always seems to be outside funding available for medical improvements (I was just reading the other day the company that owns Botox just sold for 63 billon but that it was developed at a university so that tells us the myth of private enterprise). To me, the saddest thing about the US is that deep fundamental change needs to occur and that change is so massive I doubt it will ever happen. Our values are completely ass-backward. Our quality of life is really based in quantity. We ignore the successes of other countries just because they are not "American" and ignore truly fulfilling and content lives. On top of that, we allow our corporations to make us sick and then pay the same ones to make us well or pay them to make our lives manageable (prescription pills for diet-related illnesses).
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Glad to hear your boy is doing better. I can only imagine your stress and worry over the illness. When our youngest was born the doctor detected a heart murmur that had to be monitored and during that period the stress and worry were immense (all turned out well - the doctor had said it would either require different treatments or more commonly, just go away. And that is what it did). I think the curious human mind will always push us toward solutions and attempts at a better life regardless of cost. On top of that, there always seems to be outside funding available for medical improvements (I was just reading the other day the company that owns Botox just sold for 63 billon but that it was developed at a university so that tells us the myth of private enterprise). To me, the saddest thing about the US is that deep fundamental change needs to occur and that change is so massive I doubt it will ever happen. Our values are completely ass-backward. Our quality of life is really based in quantity. We ignore the successes of other countries just because they are not "American" and ignore truly fulfilling and content lives. On top of that, we allow our corporations to make us sick and then pay the same ones to make us well or pay them to make our lives manageable (prescription pills for diet-related illnesses).
