The Daft, Demented, and Delirious

Let us not forget that medicine saves lives but medicine is also a billion dollar business and the patients are the cash cows. Most medical interventions and medicines aren't meant to save lives or make you feel better, they're to make the business money! If you're looking for compassion and care, you surly won't find it through your HMO or local hospital. Nurses are usually the ones who provide care and compassion. Like life medicine is not a perfect science. There is something to be said of traditional medicine being combined with homeopathic medicine. Once that is embraced we may see a healthier society. In nursing school we are taught to take care of our patients holistically. When insurance companies and hospitals stop treating patients like drive-thru customers at Burger King than I might respect the establishment. The "Get in:Get out: Get on with you life." approach hasn't been working for the better for quite sometime now. All I or anyone else in t...

On September 11, 2012 I had Roux-En-Y gastric bypass surgery. I had thought about the surgery many times over the last five years or so. A part of me had always felt it was a drastic surgical solution to fight obesity and all the problems that come along with it.  The older I got and the higher my weight climbed and went up and down like a yo-yo. I started to consider weight loss surgery more seriously. I was sick of it. Sick of being fat. Being knowledgeable medically held me back at times,  knowing the pain and recovery and mental challenges can be brutal, hard, and life altering. There are positives and negatives to anything that is such a huge life changing event. I don't regret my decision as I know if I continued life at the weight I was at I would be a prime candidate for diabetes and cardiovascular disease. It wasn't a question of "would I get sick?" but more like "when?".  I had already struggled with many health problems like arthritis...