tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27817243.post1851378318100995757..comments2024-03-24T03:28:37.007-04:00Comments on Life With Joey: It was a very long dayJoeymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08254601805621175842noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27817243.post-55289524031190881162012-04-05T20:06:16.537-04:002012-04-05T20:06:16.537-04:00Actually, yes, my grandmother died after food was ...Actually, yes, my grandmother died after food was withheld. We are aware. But she is also was not a child in the care of her parents. <br /><br />We are also aware that DNR was not a do not treat. Hence, my grandfather was on a ventilator and kidney dialysis for three months- with no insurance, because the only place he could be on both of those things wanted to be a "rehabilitation hospital" instead of a "nursing home"- before he died. Yay. <br /><br />I don't see how either of those situations relates to my post. Neither of my grandparents were unaware of immanent death, or the position they were in. Children are innocent of these things, and expecting to be protected, and expecting to live. Even disabled ones. <br /><br />Using your children and their deaths in a custody battle is unacceptable. "Social services won't help" is no excuse for murder.Joeymomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08254601805621175842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27817243.post-61798458279224953732012-04-05T09:04:57.242-04:002012-04-05T09:04:57.242-04:00I have trouble with keeping people alive by extrao...I have trouble with keeping people alive by extraordinary means solely because you can't let them die. But then again, I watched them do that to my Grandparents. Did you know that once you stop eating and drinking it takes about 2 weeks to die. Or that you can't have more morphine when your veins start collapsing - the pain is incredible - because you might die a couple of hours faster and become addicted to it? I thought that was the most disgusting thing I'd ever seen. We treat our pets with more respect.<br /><br />So, I have my limits on what is acceptable and what requires a DNR order. As, noted in an article not that long ago - which I should have kept and forgot to tag - is that DNR is not Do not treat.<br /><br />What I find frightening is the number of people that kill their children. Is that part of the world we live in today and for some reason we've become so distanced from reality with all the internet and tv etc or has it always been that way? There's a cardiologist in Montreal that pretty much got away with murdering his kids. There is another Mother in the courts right now from out West that drowned hers so her husband wouldn't get custody.... None of these children had "issues".<br /><br />Maybe if we made it easier for people to put their children into care. Right now it's taboo.... http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2010/06/15/ontario-ombudsman.html and social services will not work with families. It's not in their mandate and people want nothing to do with them. How far can people be pushed, before they snap?<br /><br />It's a very big problem.... and one gov't's prefer to ignore.farmwifetwohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02680758336779501712noreply@blogger.com