Me being Clumsy and Weekend Drama lol

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Good Morning everyone :)  I hope you all had a great weekend!

Cindy and I's weekend was to put it "mildly"  ~ loopy, crazy, dramatic, chaotic etc. etc.  I'm sure you get the idea!  Frankly it all started Friday, early evening ~ it had been storming all day and I had to take Lares and Draco out for a potty call in one of the lull's between storm systems moving in...they were dragging me into the backyard ~ well, there is a step going down into the back yard then a little slope before you get to it; the grass was wet as all get out and there is this one bare area where it is just slippery clay...my rear end steps in it and about the same time the puppies lunged and there go my feet out from under me, my left knee went one way and my lower leg another...soooooooo I either really did a deal on the ligaments around the knee cap or I just sprained it really good ~ anywhoo I haven't been able to put my complete weight on that knee since then, had to call off work on Saturday because of it ~ I have to be on my feet and I could barely walk. Luckily my days off are Sunday and Monday so it's given me 3 days to work on it...I'm just starting to be able to bend it without stabbing pains.  Still hurts when I try to bend it normally like the dickens.  :(  I'm supposed to go back to work tomorrow ~ going to go and try to see if I can do it.  Can't afford to be out of work at all.  So put out some good wishes for me ok?  Thanks.

The "other" drama ~ Cindy's best friend  broke up with her girlfriend on Saturday (actually Friday but we didn't get the backlash till Saturday morning really) so She has moved in here with us for a little while.  Poor Cindy was moving her stuff over here all day yesterday (Sunday) and dealing with the blow up between her best friend and her now "ex" on Saturday ~ me? I stayed out of it as best I could.  I couldn't help move anything because of my blasted knee so I felt utterly useless in helping.  I did what I could do though.  Cindy is exhausted. Mentally and Physically.  I hate drama.  I despise drama.  Cindy's best friends now "ex" is a utter youngling ~ she's in her 30's but she acts like she's still in high school and it's a sad thing.  Anywhoo AGAIN ~ it will take some adjustment, but it will be ok. C's best friend's heart is really bruised and I feel so sorry for her :(  

I guess that's "it" for now... will try to make a entry again later in the week. I hope everyone has a good one!

 

Can you believe this happened??

This is truly sad ~ and it ticks the hell out of me, don't know about you...me? I'd be kicking some serious booty, taking no names and no numbers and NO excuses...especially if it were MY spouse, mother, grandmother, sister or otherwise.  There is no excuse whatsoever for this behavior.  It wasn't just the hospital, it was the police department and the 911 people also.  In my humble opinion, the Dr's who "chose" not to treat this woman should have their licenses pulled, the hospital's pulled, the police department held accountable & the 911 operator fired.  Then I'd sue each and every one involved. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

 

 

911 Dispatchers Denied Dying Woman Help

Hospital Investigated for Breakdowns in Patient Care

ABC News

LOS ANGELES (June 14) -- The case of Edith Rodriguez, the 43-year-old mother of three who collapsed in the emergency room of Los Angeles' Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital in May and died after not receiving help, has raised questions about the quality of hospital care and left a family grieving.
"I'm angry, but at the same time I'm feeling pretty bad about her,'" said Rodriquez's brother Eddie Sanchez.

On "Good Morning America" Thursday, Frank Casco, the attorney for Rodriguez's three children and four grandchildren, said what happened in the emergency room was "a mystery," but Casco says the 911 calls and security camera video proves that many people saw Rodriguez suffering and that no one offered help.

"She was lying in the fetal position crying and no one would help her," Casco said. "The security guards were on notice that she was laying there. The police were on notice that she was laying there. The hospital staff was on notice she was laying there."

Casco also said the police officers in theemergency room that morning were more interested in checking out Rodriquez for a possible parole violation than making sure she got help.

And other families are now speaking out with allegations that their loved ones died of neglect while in the King-Harbor ER.

In March 2003, 20-year-old Oluchi Oliver waited hours to be admitted to the hospital with crippling stomach pains, according to his family. After 10 hours, he collapsed dead on the floor. No one noticed, his father, Akilah Oliver, said.
"It's always unimaginable when a child dies, but for him to die like this, as if he were invisible -- it's really tragic and it's really unimaginable," Akilah Oliver said.

Last week, federal inspectors declared that patients at King-Harbor were in "immediate jeopardy" of harm or death and gave the hospital 23 days to correct procedures or lose certification. It was the fourth time in less than four years that the hospital had received the warning.

Timeline of Tragedy

At 1:43 a.m. May 9, Rodriquez's boyfriend, Jose Prado, placed the first call to 911 from a pay phone just outside the emergency room at King-Harbor Hospital.

911 Operator: "What's wrong with her?," the 911 operator asked.

Prado: "She's vomiting blood."

The operator then questions why hospital officials are not helping Rodriguez.

Prado: "They're watching her and they're not doing anything. Just watching her."

Rodriguez had been to the emergency room on three separate occasions. Each time she was released after being given prescriptions for pain.

This time, she lay on the floor of the emergency room for 45 minutes. A security video shows staffers and other patients standing by as a janitor cleaned the floor around her.

Eight minutes after the first call, another call to 911 apparently comes from another person not related to Rodriquez. "There's a woman on the ground of the emergency room at Martin Luther King and they're overlooking her," the female caller says, "and they're ignoring her."

The operator asks the caller what she wants him to do and informs the woman to contact hospital personnel. The conversation then becomes tense as the operator lets the caller know he cannot send an ambulance to the hospital.

"I cannot do anything for you for the quality of the hospital there," the operator says. "This line is for emergency purposes only."

"May [God] strike you too for acting the way you are," the caller responds. The operator says, "No, negative, ma'am. You're the one."

The county coroner ruled that Rodriguez died of a perforated bowel.

After listening to the tapes, L. A. County Supervisor Zev Yarovslosky called the hospital's actions a moral and human breakdown.

"I hope it's a lesson to the rest of the community that when somebody's in trouble and the appropriated reaction is not to turn your back on that somebody," Yarovslosky said. "It's to put your hand out and see how you can help."

Oluchi Oliver's family is not optimistic that King-Harbor can turn itself around. "It's very hard to have a lot of patience at this point and a lot of faith that the hospital can fix itself," Akilah Oliver said.

The supervisor of that second dispatcher said his tone on the call was inappropriate. The medical director of the hospital has been ousted for his handling of an unrelated lapse in patient care.

 

meanderings of babble...

 

Good Morning everyone !

 

I hope that this entry finds everyone in good health and happy ~

 

It was a quiet weekend for Cindy, I and the pups and cats, hot and humid as blazes too I didn't want to step one foot out the door unless absolutely necessary can we say ugghhhhhh??  I can and was lol. 

Saturday for me was busy, worked a double shift and left work feeling pissed, fed up, worn out, aggravated and dispirited.  Used to be about 5 years ago (maybe less) if someone (coworker) gave me crap at work I'd just rip right into them - believe me, I didn't take prisoners, I was known for having a very sharp tongue and for overt and almost outrageous honesty - if you asked me what I thought, I'd tell you. no holds barred.  Now?  I've been trying to be sweet and nice...and know what?  I'm tired of the sweet & nice at work, at least to the one's that don't deserve it.  It doesn't help that I'm the oldest one in the whole place, on any shift & these freaking younglings (teen's and early20's) treat me with such blatant disrespect at times.  I feel like saying ~ Honey? I could chew you up and spit you out and you would NOT know what the hell hit you. (insert sigh here).  When I say they treat me disrespectfully I don't mean that I expect their complete "respect"  they don't know me enough for that, what I DO expect is the same courtesy that I give them.  Doesn't work that way and I have a feeling I'm going to have to revert to "bad ass Teresa" mode and will become known as a utter bitch, which doesn't matter to me - in my opinion if you push me hard enough to warrant having my "bitch" side turned on you then you (whoever they are) are cretins to begin with.  Know what I mean??? (insert another sigh here)

 

here I am :)

 

Hello everyone   Here I am ~ it's been awhile hasn't it?  since May 26th I believe it was.  To be perfectly frank, I just haven't felt like writing~I've been "hiding" and just taking some "inner soothing" time if you know what I mean.  I haven't written any comments in a week or so in any of the journals I visit, I haven't done anything, period.  Please forgive my laxness?  My heart just hasn't been in it.

 

Hmmmm, let me see, what's been going on with me ~ work, home, cooking, puppy duty, cat duty....Cindy is working her ass off per usual, it's been particularly stressful for her this week (and will be for the rest of this month) because her boss is in Hawaii on vacation for 7 days, so all the decisions where she works falls on her shoulders. Then next week one of her other co-workers goes on vacation, then the following week another co-worker on vacation & the week following that yet another one goes - so, the things that these co-workers do fall on her shoulders and become her responsibility.  So, what I try to do is attempt to make her "home downtime" as comfortable as possible.  She deserves it.  My Baby is such a wonderful person (tho, yes, She can be stubborn as hell too LOL) (but then so can I be ).

 

In case you are wondering about my choice of graphics in this entry~Cindy, my soul mate, my deepest darkest love of my life (for the rest of my life) ~ this past Friday, June 1st, She took me to a Stevie Nicks concert in Dallas; Stevie's "Crystal Visions" Tour and before that She took me to a wonderful dinner at the "Saltgrass Steakhouse" can we say OMG wonderful ? Stevie is truly the high priestess of rock & roll ~ she was fabulous, Cindy was sitting beside me drooling her head off LOL.  She adores, worships and loves Stevie with a passion.  Chris Issak <spelling???> opened for her, he was very good to, tho most everyone was there for Stevie and only Stevie ~ it's funny the age bracket that was the majority of the audience, in their late 30's, 40's and older and one heck of a lot of gay men and lesbians there too LOL.

She did her twirling thing on stage...She is so absolutely beautiful, you'd never know she was 56 .  Cindy got me a tour T-shirt too   neato .  She started the concert by coming out singing "Stand Back" can we say WOW?  I can lol.  She sang a few of my fav's - one being "Rhiannon" I have always loved that song...I wish she had sang "Dreams" too, but alas I wasn't to have my wish fulfilled .  I'm writing below the lyrics for "Rhiannon" and another She didn't sing "Sometimes it's a Bitch" but it's one of Cindy's and I's favorite songs so I am including that also. Also a few links to a couple of her websites.

 

Rhiannon

 

Rhiannon rings like a bell through the night
and wouldn't you love to love her?
She rules her life like a bird in flight
and who will be her lover?
All your life you've never seen
a woman taken by the sky.
Well would you stay if she promised to you heaven?
Would you even try?
And he says, "Rhiannon, Don't go."
And he says, "Rhiannon, stay."
And he says, "I still cry out for you.
Don't leave me, don't leave me."

Rhiannon rings like a bell through the night.
And wouldn't you love to love her?
She rules her life like a bird in flight.
And who will be her lover?
All your life you've never seen
a woman taken by the sky.
Well would you stay if she promised to you heaven?
Would you even try?

She is like a cat in the dark,
then baby, she is your darkness.
She rules her life like a fine skylark,
when the sky is starless.
Once in a million years a lady like her rises.
Oh no, Rhiannon, you cry, but she's gone
Your life knows no answer, Your life knows no answer.

Rhiannon....

She rings like a bell through the night.
And wouldn't you love to love her?
She rules her life like a bird in flight.
And who will be her lover?
All your life you've never seen
a woman taken by the sky.
Well would you stay if she promised to you heaven?
Would you even try? Say, would you even try?

Rhiannon....

Dreams unwind
Love's a state of mind
Your dreams unwind
Love's a state of mind
Your dreams unwind
And still it's hard to find, I know.
Your dreams unwind
And still it's a state of mind, I know
Dreams unwind
And still it's hard to find, I know
Dreams unwind
And still it's a state of mind, I know

Take me like the wind, child
Take me with the sky
Take me now
Take me like the wind, baby
Take me with the sky
All the same
All the same
All the same, Rhiannon
All the same
Baby, all the same
All the same

And he still cries out for her,
"Don't leave me now."

If you read on her "In Her Own Words"  website (link below) She explains what some of her songs were written about and how she came up with them etc.

 

In Her Own Words

Here are the Lyrics for ~

"Sometime's It's a Bitch"

Well I've run through rainbows and castles of candy
I cried a river of tears from the pain
I try to dance with what life has to hand me
My partner's been pleasure...my partner's been pain

There are days when I swear I could fly like an eagle
And dark desperate hours that nobody sees
My arms stretched triumphant on top of the mountain
My head in my hands...down on my knees

Sometimes it's a bitch...sometimes it's a breeze
Sometimes love's blind...and sometimes it sees
Sometimes it's roses...and, sometimes it's weeds
Sometimes it's a bitch...sometimes it's a breeze

I've reached in darkness and come out with treasure
I've laid down with love and I woke up with lies
What's it all worth only the heart can measure
It's not what's in the mirror...but what's left inside

Sometimes it's a bitch...sometimes it's a breeze
Sometimes love's blind...and sometimes it sees
Sometimes it's roses...and, sometimes it's weeds
Sometimes it's a bitch...sometimes it's a breeze

You gotta take it as it comes
Sometimes it don't come easy

I've run through rainbows and castles of candy
And I've cried a river of tears from the pain
I tried to dance with what life had to hand me
And if I could...I'd do it all over again

Sometimes it's a bitch...sometimes it's a breeze
Sometimes love's blind...and sometimes it sees
Sometimes it's roses...and, sometimes it's weeds
Sometimes it's a bitch...sometimes it's a breeze
Sometimes the picture just ain't what it seems
You get what you want...but it's not what you need
Sometimes it's a bitch...sometimes...it's a breeze
Well it's a breeze...it's a breeze...it's a breeze...

When I hear that song, it always makes me think and I realize how true it is...about life in general.  It's the yin and the yang of things, you know?   If you look in my favorite sites part of my journal it has the link to her personal web pages.   Know what Cindy and I found out?  That "Heart" was going to be there to the night before    If we had known that in time we would have been at that one also, being as Heart is one of our other favorite groups lol. Okay, I'm out of here, focus gone... Hope everyone has a great day, night or whatever place you are at in your life!