You have to wonder if some sort of cosmic forces were out working over the weekend.

First I found out that one of my friends was in a severe car accident over the weekend at 4 AM swerving to miss an oppossum crossing the road when she flipped her SUV front over back. She got thrown from the vehicle and luckily there was someone following her home because this was one of those back roads as we are somewhat near the country and some of these roads aren’t traveled that often much less have lights on it. So he finds her and gets her to the hospital without calling 911. She ended up with a collapsed left lung, all her left ribs broken, and a bruised left shoulder and arm. Then on the right side she had to have a pin and rod put in her hip and leg because that was broke. She is now on the mend to a long recovery and we’ll all be there to help when needed.

Then some other friends were headed home on their bike when the passengers foot peg broke off right when they were going over the railroad tracks and she caught her foot in the tracks going over it and gouged out the back of her leg from the peg where it broke off and ended up with 30 stitches. She didn’t even realize she had cut herself until she saw a trail of blood from where she walking to go retrieve the peg. It was gnarly looking too.

Hopefully this will be a better week all round.

So we all know that cigarettes are bad for you and everybody else around you due to the second hand smoke and if you think that’s not a reality you’re full of shit because my cousin died of lung cancer and he didn’t even smoke. Then we have taxes which we all hate but what I think is hilarious here is the fact that we HAD the lowest tax price on a pack of cigarettes in the nation at 7 cents per pack for 30+ years and now they are going to hike it up 50 cents to 57 cents total. They are going to use that money which they estimate to be around $511 million each year of which they want to use $5 million towards smoking cessation and prevention program with the rest towards our Medicaid program to help around 117,000 people get insurance which makes sense to me considering we hardly get anything from the federal government at a 3:1 ratio.

Now if this isn’t an incentive for some folks who do not want to spend the ever more increasing amount of cigarettes then I do not know what is. Now how long this will take to go into effect though is a mystery because lawmaking and actually putting said laws into effect take forever. I remember when we finally were allowed to use real alcohol bottles instead of mini bottles a couple years ago. The law actually was passed a couple years prior but it didn’t get put into effect until then.

I can’t keep quiet about this any longer. It burns me up to no end watching these piece of shit commercials telling people who are gulliable enough that taking Gardasil will help prevent cervical cancer and some HPV types. It’s total bullshit. People are going to think now hey I got the shot I don’t need to get a pap smear every year because you know there are people out there that will be thinking this. They think this is going to be the cure all just like the flu shot is supposed to prevent you from getting the flu every season. Yes people believe that too. I know of one physician who gets the shot every year, gets sick immediately upon getting the shot and STILL gets sick about 2 more times. The shot doesn’t work people. You are getting pacified by something you want to believe in and that is wrong. You might as well put a placebo out there and say this will cure whatever the hell you have wait for the people to die.

I think what irks me the most about Gardasil is the fact that I heard that the school system is seriously considering requiring that as part of the childhood immunizations for all girls. That is total bullshit. It should be up to the parents to decide this and I know of one nurse who has already said that even if they require it there is no way in hell she is giving it to her daughter.

Yes it is the job of researchers and drug companies to come up with the next big antibiotic or prevention but you cannot tell me that is all just to pad the manufacturers pockets with more money in this case.

I’m sorry I just can’t get past this.

We had a 17 yo (but this apparently applies to anybody 15 and older) who went for an ultrasound and ended up finding out she was pregnant far enough along that it showed up on the ultrasound. Her parents did not know. Whether she knew is beyond me but she claims no. Now according to our hospital laws a 15 year old and older is to be told about this, an STD, etc by themselves without any legal guardians in the room during a visit. Now #1, it is illegal to see a child under the age of 18 without a parent in the room. #2, if we see patients who are pregnant we have to immediately refer them to high risk OB and adult nephrology due to the pregnancy. #3, to get these done, we would have to then give the referrals for said physicians to the PARENTS to make the appointments as the child is under 18 and it is illegal for her to make any appointments. So how do you circumvent the entire thing?

Then my next set of questions were, say you ask the parents to leave the room to tell the child this, and then ask the parents back in the room. They ask you what that was about but you can’t say. They ask the child, the child does not say. What then? I don’t remember what age you are legally able to get an abortion without your parents but I know it is not 15 or 16 and maybe not even 17. Legally the parents are responsible for the childs medical bills, hence they have the right to know what is wrong with their child. This goes against that.

Personally, I think it is a fucked up situation all around. I’ll get to the next fiasco later. Someone claiming to be the grandparent of a child when they have no blood relation what so ever.