Compassion

Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital did not allow the partner and children of a fatal aneurysm sufferer to visit the victim while she lay dying, despite the partner holding proper medical power of attorney.

Neither the Dade County medical examiner’s office (Dr. Bruce A. Hyma, Director, Chief Medical Examiner, 1 Bob Hope Road, Miami, FL 33136,  Phone: 305-545-2400) nor the State of Florida allowed the partner to receive a death certificate, so that life insurance and survivor’s benefits could be made available to the partner and their children.

Here’s an advertisement for Jackson Memorial Hospital:

Here are the phone numbers for Jackson Memorial Hospital:

Jackson Memorial Hospital Main Line
305-585-1111

Jackson Memorial Hospital Administration
305-585-6086

Jackson Memorial Hospital Customer Service
305-585-5300

Jackson Memorial Hospital Human Resources
786-466-8333

Jackson Memorial Hospital Patient Relations
305-585-7341

Jackson Memorial Hospital Public Relations/Media
305-585-7213

Why don’t you give these fine folks a call and ask why they wouldn’t allow the morally and legally correct thing to be done?

Could it be that the victim and the spouse are both women, and the hospital informed the spouse (and the children) that “they were in an anti-gay city and state” and that the power of attorney would not be recognized?

Remind me why anyone would want to live in that pesthole.

Published in: on 30 September 2009 at 19:30 Leave a Comment

Excuuuuuse me!

I have a bone to pick with Mackenzie Phillips and her so-called “confession” that she led a years-long incestuous relationship with her father John Phillips.

Funny how this all just now comes up.

John Phillips has been dead since 2001, and Mackenzie has (gasp of surprise!) a new book coming out, an interview on Oprah, AND an exclusive interview in People Magazine, and who knows what else. And her half-sister Chynna is telling “her side of the story” in Us Magazine.

I must look at this with a jaundiced eye. Ms. Phillips is a repeat junkie and thief, and there is a rule-of-thumb that the police and social systems have with such folk: they are inveterate liars, and will do almost anything for attention. Her timing assures that John has no chance to rebut, and Chynna claims to have known nothing about the matter at the time; Mackenzie supposedly called her out of the blue one day to tell the tale.

Anyway, the money will now be rolling in from interviews and book deals, and (I strongly suspect) the public is getting lied to while they excrete out the usual “oh, gee, honey, we’re SO sorry this happened to you”.

Again.

UPDATE: Now Ms. Phillips is playing the abortion card in this sordid little tale. I’m waiting for the violins to break out into sorrowful song any moment now.

Published in: on 23 September 2009 at 11:15 Comments (1)

It’s been awhile…

…since I’ve posted anything on this site. Life has gotten in the way in many pleasant ways.

Since my last post, I’ve become engaged to a most wonderful woman who has taken the huge step of moving herself and her family from America Jr. to the Beautiful Twin Cities to live in our new home. I’ve lost an old job, gained a new job, had a child graduate from high school, helped start a daunting garden project (try converting a 1/2-acre yard containing not a single square foot of topsoil), began the happily arduous task of blending two families together, struggled mightily to appreciate dogs after a lifetime of not appreciating dogs, and struggled to like living with 8 cats (I like cats, but…8??).

So. How are you?

Published in: on 6 August 2009 at 10:13 Comments (2)

Rules of the (relationship) road

This initial list will change and grow with time. Stay tuned.

You can’t create a healthy relationship by starting out with a laundry list of “musts”.

Judge the individual, not the group.

If you’re unhappy with your romantic life, reexamine your assumptions about it. You will find one or more of them to be wrong.

Always be careful what you wish for. You might get it.

Cheap terrycloth makes terrible lube.

You’re not interviewing for a job, so don’t treat your dating profile like a resume.

Broken hearts mend.

Never explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

As a rule, men are size queens, and women are not.

What you take out of a morally neutral situation is almost always what you brought into it.

Never go spelunking while wearing a lace thong.

Moving in together, or starting a baby, with someone you have not known a *long* time can be asking for trouble.

If size doesn’t matter, why are there no 3″ dildoes?

The person matters.; the genitals don’t. The home-cooked meals don’t really matter, and the sex doesn’t really matter. It’s the connection that counts.

Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. (Thanks to Marlene Dietrich, and the same must be said for men.)

Published in: on 26 October 2008 at 2:26 Leave a Comment
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