Old queen, young Prince, and Dot Calm
Greetings, Dot Calm readers
and fellow Truth Crusaders!
I'm in less of the usual mindset for poly-ticks with the passing of Prince and with remembering the beginning of the end for Dot Calm a little over a year ago. I'm going to share a few thoughts on each of those lovely people with you; then, if I have the time and inclination, I'll pepper the post with news you can use and a movie or two. It's interesting that the Queen of England turned 90 on the 21st, and we have lost so many wonderful people so much younger than she within the past year. I think I'd be more impressed if I'd ever heard good things about her, but, from what I can tell, she's just a walking display rack for oversized millinery and foo-foo dresses. I kid. What does anyone expect from someone her age? The fact that she can even get dressed in the morning is pretty impressive. I hope I can do as much as she does if I ever get to be her age.
Before I get tuit, let me just remind you...
Don't forget to read Dot Calm's shadow's favorite independent sources of news and information:
Daily Kos
AlterNet
Democracy Now!
Conservatives are Destroying our Future
Conservative Clown Car
Americans Against the Republican Party
Americans Against the Tea Party
Mrs. Betty Bowers
God, the Good Lord Above
...And, whatever you do,
VOTE BERNIE!!!!!
If at all possible, send him a buck o' five. He ain't out of it yet!
Happy Earth Day--love your Mother because She's the only one we have. There is NO back-up planet!
Thank you for being you!
- Dot Calm's shadow
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ATTENTION, REPUBLICANS!
Obama is coming
for your guns 'n' Bibles
November 8, 2016.
DO NOT
LEAVE YOUR HOUSE
THAT DAY
FOR ANY REASON!
The rights you save
may be your own!
may be your own!
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Dot Calm and the beginning of the end...or "Yes, Virginia, you CAN die from a broken leg if you live in New Bern, NC"
A little over a year ago, Dot Calm broke her leg.
She had been getting dressed that morning. Always an excellent manager of her MS, Dot knew to lean against something that wouldn't move whenever she had to stand up, change clothes, etc. So, dutifully, she had braced herself into a corner so she could slip her pants on. Despite her best efforts to protect herself from falls, Dot went sliding down and snapped her right leg just below the knee. When she realized she couldn't get up, even with help from Mr. Calm, she called her younger daughter, who called in the home aide service that would come by to help the Calms with light housekeeping, errands, and evaluating falls to make sure any injuries were properly attended to. The service dutifully came out, realized that Dot's leg needed medical attention, and got her to the emergency room.
The bone doctor was a young man named Caudle. He x-rayed Dot's leg, casted it, and sent her home for Mr. Calm, who is disabled himself, not to mention ten years older than Dot, to take care of.
Are you saying, "WTF?!??" right now?
If not, let me give you another data point.
In the winter of 2014, Mr. Calm fell and broke his wrist. His orthopedist sent him directly to a residential rehabilitation facility after correcting and setting the fracture. In other words, the orthopedist knew that Mr. Calm would not be able to take care of himself with a bum wrist, and he knew that Dot would not be able to take care of him given that she was disabled, too.
But the young bone doctor knew no such thing. And even though Dot was not a medical expert herself, she knew something wasn't quite right. But home she went because that's where the hospital transported her.
Over the next three months, Mr. Calm dutifully tried to take care of his bedridden wife, even though he couldn't fully take care of himself. Becoming increasingly exhausted, he sometimes forgot to feed Dot. He lost weight too because, by then, he wasn't even eating properly himself. He was so exhausted that he started seeing things--like little black ants all over the white carpet, except that the little black ants were not there.
During this time, the Calms' daughters visited from out of state every chance they could. They had managed to keep their parents limping along until that three month mark, when the older daughter realized that both of her parents were losing weight and that her father was hallucinating. His desk was covered in red "turn off" notices because he'd lost track of the bills in trying to take care of Dot and himself. The daughters concluded that the home was no longer a safe environment for Dot, so the older daughter moved heaven and earth to get Dot into the residential rehabilitation facility. (That, in and of itself, is another long story. Suffice it to say that Dot Calm's older daughter isn't called "Wonder Woman" for nothing.)
Rehab facilities are funny places. This particular one rates in the middle of the three in the area--not great (not that any of them are great) but certainly not the worst out there. Dot so badly wanted to blog about her time there; I will certainly record her thoughts and experiences in more detail in a later post, but that's not the focus of the piece of the story I want to tell today. The bottom line about rehab facilities: caveat emptor! While some of the staff were helpful and nice, a lot of them were downright nasty and disrespectful, even to the people living there indefinitely. A lot of them had sticky fingers and stole the residents' property while they were sleeping. Very few of them were at all helpful, and it was worse than pulling teeth to get even the good ones to do anything.
But the worst part was the lack of REHABILITATION in the REHABILITATION FACILITY. The physical therapists dismissed Dot as a patient because Dot's MS caused her so much pain that she couldn't always participate fully in the therapy.
Am I hearing another "WTF?!??" right now?
If not, I should be, and here's why.
It is not the decision of the physical therapist to dismiss a patient.
Duh.
How did that moron expect Dot to recover so she could LEAVE the facility unless she had the physical therapy that had been prescribed for her?
So, picture Dot's younger daughter on the phone 24/7 for days at a time trying figure out the right person in the facility to call, which ultimately ended up with her on the phone 24/7 for days at a time trying to track down and ring up the facility's doctor once she found out he was the right one to ask. (The older daughter is the admin/bookkeeping queen; the younger one has medical background. Great team if you need help.)
The house doctor, it turned out, had a brain and a heart and told the physical therapist to get off her ass and back to work helping Dot Calm--just be gentle about it and do what the patient can tolerate, and make sure you go in there every day or so. (That only took 3-4 weeks to accomplish on the daughter's part--yay her.)
The physical therapist was too huffy to comply, so a nurse's aide stepped in instead. She went in on a daily basis and helped Dot stretch her injured leg. That aide also had a brain and a heart, and, unlike so many in that place, she did what she said she'd do when she said she'd do it.
The problem?
Because of the MS, Dot had developed a contracture, meaning that it would be very difficult to get her leg straight so that she could get back on her feet.
"All I want is my nice clean bathroom at home," Dot would lament. She bucked up as well as she could under all the institutional neglect, disrespect, theft, indignity, and lack of privacy, but she absolutely hated it there. She did her level best to comply with all the medical instructions, but it was just more than she could do. A picky eater at the best of times let alone when faced with industrial-strength chow, Dot wasn't recovering any of the weight she'd lost at home, either.
Meanwhile, nobody knew what to do about the contracture.
Cue Dot's younger daughter again.
It took her five minutes on teh Intert00bs to find out that Botox can help release contractures without all the complications of revision surgeries that tend to make the problem worse.
Cue another several go-rounds of her being on the phone 24/7 for days at a time trying to get someone to approve and do Botox on her beloved mother's leg so that she could get up and get the hell out of that rehab facility.
Cue her consulting her older sister and the two of them trying to arrange a second opinion on the broken leg and/or a referral for the Botox.
Cue the older sister arranging said appointment and flying in from out of town to attend it with her parents.
And now...cue that doctor's office canceling the appointment without telling anyone.
I had better be hearing a whole lot of WTFs right now. And I'd better be hearing a whole lot more WTFs when I tell you that this is standard operating procedure in New Bern, NC.
Yep--if I had a nickel for every time some doctor hauled the disabled Dot Calm out of her house when she couldn't drive and had to pay someone to drive her to an appointment that had been canceled without anyone telling anyone, I'd have enough to pay my rent for the month, no problem.
So, there were Dot and her older daughter--all dressed up with nowhere to go, sitting in one doctor's office trying to figure out what to do next.
Cue the older daughter whipping out her cell phone and trying to get someone, anyone, in the area to see her mother, evaluate her leg, and refer her for Botox.
And guess who was the only taker in town...
If you guessed Caudle, you're right! Give yourself a cigar!
So, hat in hand, Dot and her daughter went back to Caudle's office. Dot's daughter teleconferenced her sister in on the visit so she could hear and advise.
When Caudle came into the exam room, the thing that amazed the three women most (Mr. Calm was in the waiting room) was his voice. It DRIPPED contempt, repulsion, and inconvenience...Why are you here? Just go away already!
During the consultation, it became clear to Dot and her daughters that this man might have known a little about bones, but he clearly knew nothing about joints, nerves, muscles, tendons, ligaments, or anything else attached to them. And he certainly didn't know nuthin' 'bout no contractures.
Finally, the younger daughter piped up, asking about Botox.
Caudle thought that was brilliant.
Dot and her daughters didn't know whether to be disgusted by his ignorance or relieved by his receptiveness.
After a few days of the younger daughter calling his office to follow up, Caudle finally recommended someone to do the Botox for Dot Calm--another moron with barely two-star reviews HALFWAY ACROSS THE STATE, four hours away.
Yet another proof that the young bone doctor hasn't got a practical bone in his body (and that what sits between his ears is probably a bone, too).
Lemme connect the dots for you again, just in case...
Like I said, by now, Dot--who only ever broke 100 lbs once in her life, during one of her pregnancies and who, even then, didn't make it up to 120 lbs--was pretty emaciated. Medical transport beds for someone like Dot, who couldn't sit up normally because of her leg, HURT. Even with pillows, they are not padded, and they are not comfortable for someone with MS who's already in tremendous pain--especially with the stress of driving FOUR HOURS ACROSS THE STATE AND THEN BACK.
Can you say, "What was that young jackass THINKING, IF he was thinking?!??"
I knew you could.
So, cue the younger daughter AGAIN, spending another round of several days on the phone, trying to get someone LOCAL to do Dot's Botox.
She tracked down a local neurologist with nearly a five-star rating. She was willing to do Botox, but she'd never done it in someone's leg (she'd only ever done it for migraines)...then the daughter was on the phone with that doctor's office for weeks and weeks because insurance didn't want to pay for the Botox, only the doctor's office never told anyone...and, and, and, and...
22 October 2015, three months to the day after being moved to the rehab facility, the too good, too beautiful, and too brilliant Dot Calm passed away. She had slowly starved and suffered long, and, even though she knew that her daughters were fighting for her welfare and her life, she simply ran out of steam. She died peacefully in her sleep and thankfully is no longer suffering.
There are a few morals to this story:
1. Yes, Virginia, you CAN die from a broken leg if you live in New Bern, NC.
2. If you are in your 70s or older or for any reason you end up in a residential rehabilitation facility, you MUST have someone "on the outside" to advocate for you. Make it someone you trust to help with your medical decisions--someone with some background or who at least is educated, preferably in the sciences, and can do research on the web. Trust me--you are going to need someone with the energy to spend days on the phone on your behalf. You won't be able to do it if you're elderly or sick--you won't have the strength, even if you do have the medical background.
3. Make sure you check patient reviews for any doctor you're planning to see. If he or she doesn't have any reviews, do NOT go there. You deserve better than to be someone's guinea pig. If he or she has anything less than 4.5 stars, don't walk--RUN LIKE HELL and get the PHUQUE away from that jerk.
Dot Calm did not have to die the way she did or as young as she did. She would be here clanging the drums and pots and pans telling her story herself, if she could. She spent her last days on the planet trying to help people.
Please don't let what happened to her happen to you or your loved ones.
As for us, we are still reeling from her loss. Losing your best friend in all the world is not something you get over, and Dot Calm was best friend to a great many of us. She was more like a sister to me than my own sister.
We also hope with every fiber of our beings that, should Caudle or any of the health care morons in New Bern, NC, have a beloved wife or mother, she gets better care when she needs it than Dot Calm did.
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The beauty that was Prince
It was with great sadness that I heard of the passing of Prince yesterday. Larger than life, he was always a living legend to me.
I remember when he hit the scene in the early 80s. My high school friends and I all adored him. The girls had crushes on him; the boys admired him--we all just loved the man and his music. He was a first-rate guitarist with some serious chops, and his vocals...! It's hard to describe those vocals. Prince sang with a heart and soul that were rare, even among music legends and icons. What's more, he could slingshot his voice into the stratosphere, let it soar just long enough to kiss the stars, and then let it spiral back down to earth like a lazy leaf in the Fall. And it all sounded so...effortless.
I personally loved his androgynous style. He was so original, iconoclastic! I loved those oversized suits and that big melodramatic 80s hair--everything he wore complemented his sculpted, handsome face. I loved watching him move--loved watching him play guitar and get down on that stage. He was poetry in motion and a joy to behold. He always kept it fresh--nothing about him or his work ever felt dated.
Prince was an amazing soul. He was sensitive and funny, writing songs from the treasure trove of personal experience. He was gracious and kind, warmly acknowledging his fans. He was "all that" without ever seeming to realize that he was "all that."
I had the good fortune to happen upon WPFW 89.3 (online or on the air in Washington, DC) around 6:00 last night: there was a delightful group of friends honoring Prince there on the radio. Some of them had even met Prince and had gotten to shake his hand. Punctuating their warm recollections, they played some of Prince's songs. I was amazed by the breadth and depth of the man's talent--the four songs I heard were all completely unlike one another, yet all were clearly Prince. One song was pure jazz (Old Friends for Sale). So moving.
You know what the best part was? As the radio friends said and I experienced myself, you can't be sad when you're listening to Prince. Even when the topic seems dark, there is just too much hope and joy in his music.
As soon as you're done reading this post, go find some Prince to listen to. You'll be glad you did!
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Are you thoroughly depressed now? I am! So here's a happier tale from Dot Calm
Have you ever had a chocolate egg cream?
It's an old soda-fountain treat straight from New York City--Brooklyn, to be exact--where Dot Calm spent a lot of time in her youth.
I somehow never managed to try an egg cream until I was out of college--then I couldn't get enough of them.
A few years ago, Dot Calm thought it would be fun to send her granddaughters the recipe for egg creams along with the makings so that they could try this New York delight for themselves. She even found old-school Coke glasses!
Well, y'all know I love ya, but I can't give y'all the makings for egg creams! I can at least give you the recipe, though.
Hint #1: egg creams don't contain eggs...or cream!
Hint #2: use Bosco chocolate syrup if you can get it--more authentic than Hershey's, which still doesn't exactly suck. Fox's U-Bet syrup is also authentic and quite yummy, although Bosco is my favorite.
New York City Chocolate Egg Cream
1. In a very cold 12-oz glass, thoroughly mix 4 Tablespoons chocolate syrup with 1/2 cup of whole milk.
2. Add seltzer water to fill the glass; gently stir.
3. Get ready to smile!
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According to Christians' Bible,
women are men's property.
But Christians act
as if all women are THEIR property!
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Petitions!
Last night there was a “Presidential Surrogates Foreign Policy Debate“ between Larry Korb, a foreign policy advisor and surrogate for the Bernie Sanders campaign, and Derek Chollet, a foreign policy advisor and surrogate for the Hillary Clinton campaign. The surrogates were asked whether their candidate would support the Murphy-Paul bill, which would require the President to certify that Saudi Arabia was working to minimize civilian casualties in its war in Yemen and cooperating with the U.S. against ISIS and Al Qaeda as a condition of U.S. weapons transfers to Saudi Arabia.
Derek Chollet said he couldn't answer because he wasn't familiar with the bill. But Larry Korb said that he was familiar with the bill and thought that Senator Sanders would support it, because it was in line with Senator Sanders' criticisms of Saudi Arabia.
We want more Americans to know about this, because we think it will help build support for the Murphy-Paul bill, if more people know that Senator Sanders is likely to support it. I wrote up the exchange in a piece at Huffington Post.
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Today is Earth Day, and the first day the nations of the world can sign the Paris climate change agreement at the United Nations.
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From Chesapeake to Galax, Virginians work, shop and dine in North Carolina as part of their daily lives.
So it was a major blow when North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory
signed a sweeping law that he called "common sense" – which bans
protections for LGBT people and, in its haste to discriminate, actually
makes it harder for workers to fight discrimination based on age or
disability.
Texas had a record number of discrimination bills in its
last legislative session, Georgia sent its anti-LGBT bill to the
governor’s desk before common sense actually prevailed, and just this
week Mississippi’s governor signed a law allowing businesses to refuse
LGBT couples service.
We won’t go back.
In Virginia, Governor Terry McAuliffe vetoed a wrongheaded measure like the North Carolina law.
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Last month, I sent a letter to Governor Walker calling on him to restore food assistance benefits to over 30,000 low-income Wisconsinites who could go hungry as a result of his actions.
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Deport
Crazy Canuck
Rafael "BUSTed" Cruz
NOW!
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Rafael "BUSTed" Cruz
loves rape, hates dildos
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Know why Ted Cruz
wants to ban dildos?
He hates competition!
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Jesus and Ted Cruz
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Movies!
posted by Dot Calm @ 7:53 PM
