12 November
2013
We recorded 999 What's Your Emergency last night and
sat and watched it this morning. It features the ambulance service mainly and
this week majored on births at home with medics rushing to help hapless dads as
they struggle to deliver their child. It's amazing just how far apart are the
life styles of some of these mothers. Like the young lass who has baby who has
three or four medical problems and how she has to manage them. Her house is
clean. she is clean, the baby is clean. She is mother who cares and is trying
to of what's right by her child. Contrast that with the woman who is six months
pregnant with her sixth child. She willing gets into a car her current boy
friend has just stolen and then when he crashes the car, she tries to run off.
What chance of a decent life does that child have? And more to the point, just
where were her other kids at that time?
It showed
just how much some of these youngsters care or think about getting pregnant
doesn't it. I am reminded of a case I saw on telly some time ago where a new
mother was struggling to pick a name for her baby. In the end she decided to
name it after her current shampoo! There's people all over the world who are desperate
for a baby and can't get one; then there's all these others who seem to get pregnant
just by looking at willie.
Jan and I
wanted more kids years ago. She had a really rough time while carrying Tom.
That wasn't her first pregnancy though, she'd had Lynda to her first marriage.
In between she had quite a few miscarriages. Once Tom was born things didn't
get any better at all. In time things got so bad she had to have a major
operation to repair an ankle that kept flipping out. She had been told that she
had been born without a hip socket. The surgeon who did her leg op told her
that in actual fact she had a form of spina bifida. That really flipped us out
because she even though she'd had a rough time with Tom she was determined to
try again. Our GP at the agreed straight away to a sterilisation because the
spina bifida. There's was no way we would be able to manage another baby at
that time, and most certainly not if it was born with full blown Spina bifida.
So yes folks;
I do get angry at times when I see and hear of kids having mums like to six month
pregnant one in that show last night. Or like that mum who has a baby and
leaves it in a carrier bag in a park in Birmingham the other week. And the PTB
are looking to let that mum have the child back! Ye gods - what are they thinking
about? If they are thinking that is!
I got a few
nice shots out the back of the flat the other day. Here's one of them.
I just
liked two shades of leaves and the clouds between them.
And the Sage
has kind to us today and spoken more words of wisdom ...
An
elderly man in his 80s.lay dying in his bed. he was almost at his last breath
when he smelt the familiar scent of fresh scones wafting up from the kitchen.
his eyes welled with tears...he thought if his elderly
wife of 60 years with all its ups and downs. In the kitchen now baking for the
last time. his favourite thing. he mustered up all of his strength he could and
dragged his feeble old body out of bed and down the stairs where she stood, this
woman who had done this last loving thing for her dying husband. with a tear in
his eye he reached out his frail old hand to the table to the pile of freshly
baked scones .where upon his wife turned to him and whacked him on the back of
the hand with a wooden spoon and said...leave them alone...there for the
funeral!!!
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