(We're so glad to see Will -- namastebrown -- posting here again! He was one of our first writers back in 2007 when we started the site. And let's get the curethis community out to detroit for the USSF! - promoted by los anjalis)
Hello and Good Day
I am at a loss for words, but am coming back to the Cure This Site.
I have been busy trying to figure out what to say in my next post.
A family member died recently and suddenly. She complained to a doctor of a burning sensation on the side of her face. The doctor at the public hospital advised her to rinse her face with water. A few weeks later she collapsed at home, playing with family. She was 20-21 years old. I'm told it was an aneurysm that killed her. Really? It couldn't have been detected or prevented? Damned right I am concerned about health justice.
No one even has the language to say "this is a health justice issue"
Another family member is elderly on Medicaid and is terrified of dying. She can't sleep nights. Gets unsatisfactory care from the visiting nurse that the government provides. Has had heart failure and now a kidney condition and is past the point of surgery. Now she has trouble walking from her living room to her kitchen. I don't even know how to begin to find resources that will help her. Or really how to insert myself within the context of her life in a way that is supportive and helpful. Damned right I recognize a need for health justice, a health care system/ ideology/ philosophy/ practice/ profession that is navigable, honest, fair and treats all people with a modicum of dignity.
How to get that in a society that is not committed to treating all people with dignity? You see my conundrum.
I am an organizer for the US Social Forum. http://www.ussf2010.org We are working on building a Health and Healing Track. But we need to make sure that it is not just a network of "healers" and "professionals" but that it seeks to unite all the people who are tired, sick, and pissed off and looking for a new way to take care of themselves (and each other, no?)
The 2010 USSF will take place in Detroit. June 22-26. We hope that curethis community comes out to support to help build this movement that will transform this nation and join it to international struggles for life, health, dignity, and self-determination.
I will write more on that later.
Signing off,
namaste brown |
