What's proper care?

The following was my recently printed letter to the Editor. I felt it bore repeating on my blog. When you are halfway healthy, waking up with a dry mouth is not just annoying, but quite uncomfortable. For most of us, the treatment is just reaching for that glass of water we put on our night stand the evening before. Now let's change the circumstances. You're in a room. You have a morphine drip in your arm. The note beside your bed says 'palliative care'. You're dying. The staff wants to comfort you. Your family wants to comfort you. The staff doesn't always have the time. The family doesn't have the training. You are in a state of semiconsciousness from the morphine, which is keeping you from heavy pain. Your are also unable to communicate or really be aware of just how dry your mouth is. No one helps you, not out of meanness, but out of time constraints and ignorance, both forgivable. A few half teaspoons of water gently placed inside your lips, so simple yet so fearful if you've never had to do it before. Is this perhaps what Dr. Kevorkian wanted us to see? Was his method so much more horrible than days of the above? marge

Chuck Moss, Mi House member

Rep. Moss. You take precious time to sponser a bill on changing dog registration laws but seem to find it terribly unimportant to go to meetings to help change existing inequitable, cruel laws regarding young people and the Sex Offender Registry. My taxes pay your salary. Your priorities have me feeling cheated out of my money. You always seem to get your picture and name in the papers. That sir, is not an accomplishment. Helping your fellow citizens on serious matters is. marge

went missing went missing

My tolerance of Nancy Grace and her 'went missings' has now reached the 30 second level. Worse, she has caused 'went missing' to spread to once accomplished broadcasters here and in Canada. DISAPPEARED. I know, its an almost forgotten discriptive, used for eons, word. Simple, catches your attention and is totally understandable, but NOT 'catchy'. I don't suppose it would do any good to tell her..........marge

sex offender registry candidates

If the Sex Offender Registry were enacted before 1900, do you realize how many great grandparents or grandparents might very well be on the 'SOR' list? Do you remember hearing about or knowing someone who 'had' to get married at an unusually young age? Do you remember a high school or junior high classmate getting caught urinating out of doors cause it was easier than finding an indoor toilet to 'go'? How about the proverbial policeman shining his flashlight into a steamy car window in a somewhat isolated area? Today, many and I do mean many of these male individuals would be on that 'infamous' Sex offender Registry and their lives turned into a 25 year living hell. Do you find that hard to believe? Check it out. Find out for yourself. Do an indepth study. Don't just mentally grab the first thing you read and assume you know all the rest. You don't. Honestly and truly, you don't.............  marge    POST SCRIPT.....Apparently, to save a few dollars, the Michigan Legislature has changed the 25 year time to forever.  Career first.  Humanity second.  For shame...............................marge

tunnel vision politician

Hopeful Republican Paul Scott of Grand Blanc, running for office of Secretary of State of Mi, is either extremely narrow minded or overwhelmingly ignorant. If one wouldn't keep an old address on a current drivers license, why would one keep the wrong gender? Things and people change. It is not illegal, unethical or immoral. Open your eyes and mind Paul Scott. marge

Oprah

I watched a blog about Oprah Winfrey showing the maimed woman attacked by a chimpanzee. A vote was taken about how right it was to show her reconstruction work. It should have been 100 percent OK. If not, then the message says that anyone injured in an accident or war should hide their damaged bodies. Oh, the message that sends to our returning veterans. Perhaps we should build a compound (albeit comfortable) and enclose all maimed soldiers in it. Those of you who cringe at the site of 'different' should be ashamed. Those who are 'different', according to your standards, are not as touchable, huggable and lovable as other. Oh where do you get off deciding who is visually acceptable and who is not? Wake up. Grow up. Figure out what's really important in life. marge

Just wondering

Who is putting John Birch Society literature in an auto dealership waiting room on Maple Rd. between Coolidge and Crooks? marge