We All Fall Down...

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" Ring Around the Rosie,Pocket full of Posies,
Ashes, Ashes Ashes, we all fall down. "
600 year old Nursery Ryhme written during the Black Plague.

I got a phone call from a friend this week, he needed to talk....I sat by an open window and listened to little girls playing and jumping rope and singing while he talked. They were innocently singing "Ashes , Ashes". Their little voices hung in the air as he poured his heart out.He is younger than me, he talked about what an awful week he had. He talked about his brother finding out that he had Lung Cancer, his younger brother.He talked about how they grew up together, how they always took care of each other and how they took care of his mom. He talked about the trip to the Doctor to find out about the diagnosis.He said that the Doctor told him he has six monthes to live. He was stunned at the limited amount of information he was given. As a nurse I am stunned, and was worried, why he was not told more , or given more information. He was handed ONE Sentence, a Death Sentence. I sat and tried to think of what to say, what to offer, what to ask, but mostly I just listened and let him talk.

He asked me What he should do, I said he should keep being a Brother, because that is what his brother needs more than anything......Time is a Gift.
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So I have spent the past few days thinking about this. Do we teach our children well enough ? Do we teach our Children how to take care of each other ? Do we teach them when to take care of each other ? Considering our Broken Health Care System , maybe we need to teach how to take care of our families, like Basic Care Giving Courses? And maybe we should be teaching these starting when children are in grade school.
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And then on TV this week, the MSM has been showing the Horrible Video of this poor woman who died on an ER Waiting Room Floor. I watch that and I think WHERE is the Humanity ? The Empathy ? What the hell happened to us, that a person would lay on the floor for hours and NO One would offer comfort or a kind word ? Or Any Kind Of Care? And yet the MSM shows the video, like it is astounded, yet entertained. I want to see some Kick Ass Journalist asking HARD Questions of People that work there ?
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I was taught that What Goes Round , Comes Round. So I am left wondering have people been taught to Not Care ? To be detached ? Is Our Humanity actually Lost ? Or are we Humanity Starved ? Does it have to be Taught ? Nurtured ? Or do we just sit back and wait to see What Comes Round, or The Footage of the Next Humanity Starved Moment.

Because in the End We All Fall Down....and at some point we should decide that we will be there for each other.

Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young " Teach Your Children Well"


"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these."
George Washington Carver

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Followup on the Fallen Woman:

THE TRUTH about the woman" on the floor", abandoned waiting for "Care" at the Kings County Hospital in their Psych ER.Her name was Esmine Green, she was a mother of eight, she was only 48 years old. She was from Jamica. She was waiting for care, she had sat in that waiting room for over 24 hours. Atleast 6 bystanders saw her on the floor, and atleast 4 Employees saw her on the floor, including two security guards, and 2 Nurses.The Hospital says that all employees involved have been fired. As a nurse , I am beyond disgusted and angry about this incident. Video is posted below.