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Showing posts with label choice in healthcare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label choice in healthcare. Show all posts
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Monday, March 11, 2013
MEDICAL MARIJUANA - THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW
http://medicalmarijuanamallusa.com/InformationPages/SymptomsandBenefits.html
One of our Florida Republican Representatives, Jimmy Patronis, came out and had the nerve to say in a News Herald article last week, that he is so opposed to legalizing marijuana of any kind, if "we" don't like it we can leave (Florida). An elected official is nothing more than a public servant. The arrogance of that statement - the heartlessness of it, is so offensive. It is typical of those empowered by us - the trick is to find new people and maybe another party to represent us. Patronis is a Republican. But if (God forbid), his parents, his wife, his youngsters were stricken with an illness that marijuana helped heal or alleviate the symptoms, you know he'd get some - beg, borrow or steal. So let's not be a hypocrite, Jimmy.
Seventy per cent or more Floridians want marijuana legalized. Personally, I think alcohol and cigarettes are far more dangerous.
I truly believe marijuana is a healthcare miracle.
The link is an important one.
One of our Florida Republican Representatives, Jimmy Patronis, came out and had the nerve to say in a News Herald article last week, that he is so opposed to legalizing marijuana of any kind, if "we" don't like it we can leave (Florida). An elected official is nothing more than a public servant. The arrogance of that statement - the heartlessness of it, is so offensive. It is typical of those empowered by us - the trick is to find new people and maybe another party to represent us. Patronis is a Republican. But if (God forbid), his parents, his wife, his youngsters were stricken with an illness that marijuana helped heal or alleviate the symptoms, you know he'd get some - beg, borrow or steal. So let's not be a hypocrite, Jimmy.
Seventy per cent or more Floridians want marijuana legalized. Personally, I think alcohol and cigarettes are far more dangerous.
I truly believe marijuana is a healthcare miracle.
The link is an important one.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
PRESIDENT POTHEAD IS SENDING PEOPLE TO PRISON
http://dailybail.com/home/president-pothead-is-sending-people-to-prison.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheDailyBail+%28The+Daily+Bail%29
And not for being terrorists - OH, NO!
For medical marijuana!
And not for being terrorists - OH, NO!
For medical marijuana!
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Monday, February 4, 2013
Friday, August 17, 2012
Monday, March 12, 2012
Friday, March 9, 2012
STOP THE SALE OF BAY MEDICAL CENTER TO SACRED HEART NETWORK! YOUR LIFE WILL DEPEND ON IT!
If you have Muslim doctors, and I know several of you do, you need to tell them that they'd better find out before March is over, if they will be kept at BMC.
In a phone call today, there is a self-admitted problem with the staff of BMC by Sacred Heart.
Dr. Victor Ortega at Pulmonary Assoc. in PC is very much against the sale/lease. We were at a meeting last night. This is a corporate takeover by the Catholic church. Promises made were not in the contract, so staff doesn't know if they will be rehired by Sacred Heart. They have to apply to Sacred Heart and wait. He said last night that he believes the staff will be purged.
Did you know that the staff was promised retroactive raises with the $3.5 million BP settlement and no one knows where the money went?
Public records under the Sunshine Law have been requested by and have been refused.
No audits on anything have been done - not the physical plant audit or a financial audit. No one knows WHY or WHO was responsible for the disappearance or mishandling of BMC finances...poor management, embezzlement, favors, fraud...nothing is known.
There was legislation presented by Sen. Rene Garcia down south regarding the sale of hospitals. In it was the requirement for a referendum. Then our Sen. Gaetz got it and scrubbed that. It is on Rick Scott's desk for signature today. It coincides with the sale of the hospital to Sacred Heart. Timed just right so that the "voters" are the Board of BMC and the County Commission and of course, not the public.
Public records law violation is a big deal.
Please contact the Governor's office somehow today and tell him to stop the sale of the hospital to Sacred Heart on the public records violations at least. Or you can send a brief email to Attorney General Pam Bondi (http://www.myfloridalegal.com) to tell her about the public records violations. There is a quick link under her picture on the right where it says to contact her, and then a link to file a complaint.
That alone can put a hold on this.
http://qa.flgov.com/contact-gov-scott/
I think because of the closed door negotiations, missing money, and so many other shady issues, that this requires a Grand Jury.
There are ways to get BMC back on track. We can save our public, non-profit hospital which was to be ours in perpetuity.
In a phone call today, there is a self-admitted problem with the staff of BMC by Sacred Heart.
Dr. Victor Ortega at Pulmonary Assoc. in PC is very much against the sale/lease. We were at a meeting last night. This is a corporate takeover by the Catholic church. Promises made were not in the contract, so staff doesn't know if they will be rehired by Sacred Heart. They have to apply to Sacred Heart and wait. He said last night that he believes the staff will be purged.
Did you know that the staff was promised retroactive raises with the $3.5 million BP settlement and no one knows where the money went?
Public records under the Sunshine Law have been requested by and have been refused.
No audits on anything have been done - not the physical plant audit or a financial audit. No one knows WHY or WHO was responsible for the disappearance or mishandling of BMC finances...poor management, embezzlement, favors, fraud...nothing is known.
There was legislation presented by Sen. Rene Garcia down south regarding the sale of hospitals. In it was the requirement for a referendum. Then our Sen. Gaetz got it and scrubbed that. It is on Rick Scott's desk for signature today. It coincides with the sale of the hospital to Sacred Heart. Timed just right so that the "voters" are the Board of BMC and the County Commission and of course, not the public.
Public records law violation is a big deal.
Please contact the Governor's office somehow today and tell him to stop the sale of the hospital to Sacred Heart on the public records violations at least. Or you can send a brief email to Attorney General Pam Bondi (http://www.myfloridalegal.com) to tell her about the public records violations. There is a quick link under her picture on the right where it says to contact her, and then a link to file a complaint.
That alone can put a hold on this.
http://qa.flgov.com/contact-gov-scott/
I think because of the closed door negotiations, missing money, and so many other shady issues, that this requires a Grand Jury.
There are ways to get BMC back on track. We can save our public, non-profit hospital which was to be ours in perpetuity.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
ATTENTION: BAY COUNTY, FL AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES - MTG TONIGHT ON THE BMC TAKEOVER
There are still many unanswered questions, and some fact finding to be done BEFORE the sale/lease is completed.
We don't have much time.
All are invited to this meeting at the Holiday Inn Select in Panama City, 77 (Martin Luther King Blvd.) and Highway 231.
Room for 150.
Please come!
We don't have much time.
All are invited to this meeting at the Holiday Inn Select in Panama City, 77 (Martin Luther King Blvd.) and Highway 231.
Room for 150.
Please come!
Monday, March 5, 2012
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
"PERPETUITY" MEANS NOTHING IN BAY COUNTY, FLORIDA
Last night I witnessed a mass brainwashing and a hostile takeover of Bay Medical Center by Sacred Heart Hospital.
The Bay County Commission gave public lip service by sitting, staring into space, while some of us (including Dr. Victor Ortega) tried to inform them with facts. The Commission, who gave us incinerator problems, band-aid fix cement pillows to cover up an under-the-Bay sewer line, the airport to nowhere at which three thousand plus jobs never materialized, no international flights as promised, rising flight prices, the loss of a carrier, continuing environmental problems, allied businesses that never came (and if you ask the pilots on the Atlanta-ECP flights, they are terrified of the mushy runway on hot summer days), are stealing a taxpayer-funded public, non-profit hospital, organized under the Hill-Burton Act which was absorbed by the Public Services Act, Title XVI, a federal act providing Hill-Burton services to the indigent and under-insured available “in perpetuity”; meaning, “forever”. There are remedies available for failing public, non-profit hospitals through this act, and whoever is in charge among the Bay County snake oil salesmen, someone dropped the ball, was unaware, or has kept this hidden. This is a serious problem, and because of this, a Grand Jury should be seated to explore why.
Earlier, I picked up a cursory (and in no way complete) printout of some of the capital items in the Radiology Department. Remember, it is “no way complete”; $10 million dollars worth. I stepped into the lobby of the new wing, the baby of the CEO, Steve Johnson (formerly of Sacred Heart), who admittedly spear-headed this disaster despite all economic indicators pointed to a failing economy under the premise like the airport – if you build it they will come. Without a Certificate of Need (CON) rooms were closed in the main hospital, and new, luxury private rooms were made, as well as a new restaurant with a brick pizza oven and a gourmet menu – in Panama City, Florida where any restaurant you choose can be found in within 20 minutes.
I was dyspeptic. The lobby and garden is huge, stunning and something you would see in a high end hotel. Why wasn’t this money put into patient care and more state-of-the-art diagnostic/treatment equipment and/or staff? The opulence is embarrassing and obscene for our depressed community, but not for Sacred Heart to come in and scoop up.
One of the speakers, our County attorney, Mr. Arline, I believe, mentioned questioning Mr. Johnson’s allegiance to Sacred Heart before hiring him. Now I know what my gut told me is true. For the ten years the hospital knew there was trouble looming, Johnson was planning the lease/sale all the time.
We have five Commissioners, all of them businessmen. I questioned why two audits weren’t done by “our” side (the County); a complete financial audit and a physical plant audit, right down to the last staple in the last staple gun and the last gauze pad. I asked the Chairman of the Commission why this wasn’t done and he doesn’t know! Supposedly they have taken the word of Sacred Heart who use a formula to guess at this number.
I wonder at the ex-Sheriff who won his seat on the Commission by 15 votes, to whom this transaction was handed. He has no experience in healthcare, whatsoever.
I wonder at the man sitting in front of me in the first row making notes on a yellow legal pad prior to the meeting. His first entry was “Golden Parachutes”. Golden Parachutes? Who’s getting them?
Most of the audience, I’m guessing by the big, blue buttons, was staff and management. Funny thing about the management at BMC – they have been known to intimidate the staff before when union attempts were made. The threat issued was the firing of any employee who dared try to organize or vote for the union. Manipulation works because the staff is ignorant of the facts.
No one is talking about the current Obamacare/HHS edict concerning birth control and how, if HHS stands firm and does not back down, it will affect religious hospitals. In the literature I have found, Sacred Heart specifically will be forced to close some or all its hospitals because they will not comply on religious grounds. What happens then, to BMC? What happens to our Muslim physicians?
Because of the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church, and the changing attitude of the hospital formerly known as BMC, under the control of Monsignor Reed in Tallahassee, your young daughter, in need of a morning after pill or termination of pregnancy because of rape or incest, will be turned away whether or not you have insurance. If you aren’t insured, where will you go?
I guess there's always Planned Parenthood.
Employees of BMC are going to find it very difficult when their own personal religious ideology is challenged by the Church of Rome and the new management of Sacred Heart.
We have only two hospitals. Gulf Coast Hospital is private. BMC today, is public, non-profit, serving five counties. We need proof that all our needs are met, even women’s services. In the Bible Belt, you are going to feel the full impact of the strong hand of Roman Catholicism, and you are going to suffer for it. You have never been exposed; therefore, you are ignorant, and ignorant you will stay until something happens to you.
BMC’s Board and the County Commission are putting their faith into the maze of Sacred Heart spin-offs who handle leases and sales. Take LHP Hospital group for instance, located in Plano, Texas. It is not a Florida corporation, and it has a poor track record.
Touted as a for-profit private health care investment corporation, whose management team doesn’t have much prior experience in health care how can they be trusted? LHP remains unproven in successes. What it really is, is a hedge fund. You can read more about this in Rosalie Schaeffer’s expose’ on the Sacred Heart acquisition in the two-part article she wrote in the “County Press”, located in Bay County, FL and you can find it in the paper’s archives.
To add a little fat to the fire, the public is unaware of a Florida bill on Sen. Rene Garcia’s website dealing with the acquisition of hospitals. The original legislation states that a public referendum be held prior to a sale/lease of any hospital. It was handed over to Sen. Don Gaetz with another number (on his website). He changed the wording and deleted the public referendum, so that only the Board of the hospital and the County Commission can vote on the issue. Why did Gaetz strike the language that gave the public a vote? The timing is suspiciously coincidental; January, 2012. What makes it more so is that Sen. Gaetz lives about 15 miles from Sacred Heart.
I see a lot of room for corruption here. It is unreasonable to sell or lease BMC for 40 years if audits aren’t done. It is unreasonable to fast track such a vital decision because the Public Services Act, Title XVI should have been consulted by these seasoned healthcare professionals. The information is there to help failing public, non-profit hospitals with financial help. And it is unreasonable not to have the sale/lease available for bid.
It is important that we take our blinders off and see this as it really is. It is a theft of a very high-tech, superior hospital with a great reputation that gives care to everyone in need by a private, for-profit religious hospital who is giving us literally pennies on the dollar when the silver bullet to its financial woes is available by federal law!
The current administration and the Board of BMC who by design or by ignorance have run BMC aground must put this decision on hold, and the Bay County Commission and a Grand Jury investigate the missing audits and the options under the Public Services Act Title XVI. The Public Services Act XVI, the explanation of a Florida Special District and the Hill-Burton Act are found on the internet. They are in plain English and you can easily understand them.
Shands in Jacksonville supports my understanding of mismanaged indigent care costs.
Call them and find out for yourself. They spend less in indigent care than BMC does and they are profiting. It’s a huge hospital with almost 700 beds. Is there a problem here? You betcha.
I suggested when I spoke last night, the possibility of making BMC a teaching hospital under Florida State University or Gulf Coast State College. The grants would pour in and the financial ills would be a thing of the past. We would grow as a community, the economy would improve, BMC would grow and provide jobs and exceptional healthcare for many and those jobs would keep our children here.
http://m.news-gazette.com/news/health/health-care/2011-09-04/hospitals-fear-loss-tax-exemption-illinois.html
http://archive.chicagobreakingbusiness.com/2010/03/illinois-supreme-court-rules-provena-must-pay-tax.html
http://the-american-catholic.com/2010/03/19/should-catholic-hospitals-remain-tax-exempt/
The Bay County Commission gave public lip service by sitting, staring into space, while some of us (including Dr. Victor Ortega) tried to inform them with facts. The Commission, who gave us incinerator problems, band-aid fix cement pillows to cover up an under-the-Bay sewer line, the airport to nowhere at which three thousand plus jobs never materialized, no international flights as promised, rising flight prices, the loss of a carrier, continuing environmental problems, allied businesses that never came (and if you ask the pilots on the Atlanta-ECP flights, they are terrified of the mushy runway on hot summer days), are stealing a taxpayer-funded public, non-profit hospital, organized under the Hill-Burton Act which was absorbed by the Public Services Act, Title XVI, a federal act providing Hill-Burton services to the indigent and under-insured available “in perpetuity”; meaning, “forever”. There are remedies available for failing public, non-profit hospitals through this act, and whoever is in charge among the Bay County snake oil salesmen, someone dropped the ball, was unaware, or has kept this hidden. This is a serious problem, and because of this, a Grand Jury should be seated to explore why.
Earlier, I picked up a cursory (and in no way complete) printout of some of the capital items in the Radiology Department. Remember, it is “no way complete”; $10 million dollars worth. I stepped into the lobby of the new wing, the baby of the CEO, Steve Johnson (formerly of Sacred Heart), who admittedly spear-headed this disaster despite all economic indicators pointed to a failing economy under the premise like the airport – if you build it they will come. Without a Certificate of Need (CON) rooms were closed in the main hospital, and new, luxury private rooms were made, as well as a new restaurant with a brick pizza oven and a gourmet menu – in Panama City, Florida where any restaurant you choose can be found in within 20 minutes.
I was dyspeptic. The lobby and garden is huge, stunning and something you would see in a high end hotel. Why wasn’t this money put into patient care and more state-of-the-art diagnostic/treatment equipment and/or staff? The opulence is embarrassing and obscene for our depressed community, but not for Sacred Heart to come in and scoop up.
One of the speakers, our County attorney, Mr. Arline, I believe, mentioned questioning Mr. Johnson’s allegiance to Sacred Heart before hiring him. Now I know what my gut told me is true. For the ten years the hospital knew there was trouble looming, Johnson was planning the lease/sale all the time.
We have five Commissioners, all of them businessmen. I questioned why two audits weren’t done by “our” side (the County); a complete financial audit and a physical plant audit, right down to the last staple in the last staple gun and the last gauze pad. I asked the Chairman of the Commission why this wasn’t done and he doesn’t know! Supposedly they have taken the word of Sacred Heart who use a formula to guess at this number.
I wonder at the ex-Sheriff who won his seat on the Commission by 15 votes, to whom this transaction was handed. He has no experience in healthcare, whatsoever.
I wonder at the man sitting in front of me in the first row making notes on a yellow legal pad prior to the meeting. His first entry was “Golden Parachutes”. Golden Parachutes? Who’s getting them?
Most of the audience, I’m guessing by the big, blue buttons, was staff and management. Funny thing about the management at BMC – they have been known to intimidate the staff before when union attempts were made. The threat issued was the firing of any employee who dared try to organize or vote for the union. Manipulation works because the staff is ignorant of the facts.
No one is talking about the current Obamacare/HHS edict concerning birth control and how, if HHS stands firm and does not back down, it will affect religious hospitals. In the literature I have found, Sacred Heart specifically will be forced to close some or all its hospitals because they will not comply on religious grounds. What happens then, to BMC? What happens to our Muslim physicians?
Because of the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church, and the changing attitude of the hospital formerly known as BMC, under the control of Monsignor Reed in Tallahassee, your young daughter, in need of a morning after pill or termination of pregnancy because of rape or incest, will be turned away whether or not you have insurance. If you aren’t insured, where will you go?
I guess there's always Planned Parenthood.
Employees of BMC are going to find it very difficult when their own personal religious ideology is challenged by the Church of Rome and the new management of Sacred Heart.
We have only two hospitals. Gulf Coast Hospital is private. BMC today, is public, non-profit, serving five counties. We need proof that all our needs are met, even women’s services. In the Bible Belt, you are going to feel the full impact of the strong hand of Roman Catholicism, and you are going to suffer for it. You have never been exposed; therefore, you are ignorant, and ignorant you will stay until something happens to you.
BMC’s Board and the County Commission are putting their faith into the maze of Sacred Heart spin-offs who handle leases and sales. Take LHP Hospital group for instance, located in Plano, Texas. It is not a Florida corporation, and it has a poor track record.
Touted as a for-profit private health care investment corporation, whose management team doesn’t have much prior experience in health care how can they be trusted? LHP remains unproven in successes. What it really is, is a hedge fund. You can read more about this in Rosalie Schaeffer’s expose’ on the Sacred Heart acquisition in the two-part article she wrote in the “County Press”, located in Bay County, FL and you can find it in the paper’s archives.
To add a little fat to the fire, the public is unaware of a Florida bill on Sen. Rene Garcia’s website dealing with the acquisition of hospitals. The original legislation states that a public referendum be held prior to a sale/lease of any hospital. It was handed over to Sen. Don Gaetz with another number (on his website). He changed the wording and deleted the public referendum, so that only the Board of the hospital and the County Commission can vote on the issue. Why did Gaetz strike the language that gave the public a vote? The timing is suspiciously coincidental; January, 2012. What makes it more so is that Sen. Gaetz lives about 15 miles from Sacred Heart.
I see a lot of room for corruption here. It is unreasonable to sell or lease BMC for 40 years if audits aren’t done. It is unreasonable to fast track such a vital decision because the Public Services Act, Title XVI should have been consulted by these seasoned healthcare professionals. The information is there to help failing public, non-profit hospitals with financial help. And it is unreasonable not to have the sale/lease available for bid.
It is important that we take our blinders off and see this as it really is. It is a theft of a very high-tech, superior hospital with a great reputation that gives care to everyone in need by a private, for-profit religious hospital who is giving us literally pennies on the dollar when the silver bullet to its financial woes is available by federal law!
The current administration and the Board of BMC who by design or by ignorance have run BMC aground must put this decision on hold, and the Bay County Commission and a Grand Jury investigate the missing audits and the options under the Public Services Act Title XVI. The Public Services Act XVI, the explanation of a Florida Special District and the Hill-Burton Act are found on the internet. They are in plain English and you can easily understand them.
Shands in Jacksonville supports my understanding of mismanaged indigent care costs.
Call them and find out for yourself. They spend less in indigent care than BMC does and they are profiting. It’s a huge hospital with almost 700 beds. Is there a problem here? You betcha.
I suggested when I spoke last night, the possibility of making BMC a teaching hospital under Florida State University or Gulf Coast State College. The grants would pour in and the financial ills would be a thing of the past. We would grow as a community, the economy would improve, BMC would grow and provide jobs and exceptional healthcare for many and those jobs would keep our children here.
As it stands, I believe again that the public and the employees of BMC have been duped. Law is being ignored or hidden from public view. This looks like fraud to me.
Why are we accepting this?
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Thursday, February 9, 2012
ATTENTION BAY COUNTY, FL AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES
As you may or may not know, Bay Medical Center in Panama City, FL is about to enter into a sale/lease agreement with Sacred Heart. This means indigent care will end in 2-5 years, but then the hospital will probably sell BMC or continue with a 40 year lease, where it will be absorbed by Sacred Heart and remain a private, for-profit hospital with strict adherence to Roman Catholic ideology as to patient care. It will no longer be a non-profit, special district hospital for all people, insured, underinsured or indigent.
This will affect YOU. You may be turned away. The only other hospital in Bay County is Gulf Coast, a smaller, private, for profit hospital.
There are two hearings and if you have used the services of BMC, you should be there. The County Commission will hear from the public on February 15 and 16, in the Government Center complex on 11th Street in Panama City, at 6 p.m.
Bring your questions and your suggestions. The current administration apparently ran it into the ground with poor financial decisions.
The News Herald and the County Press have covered this shameful state of affairs for our hospital, but the County Press did an expose' in two parts by Rosalie Schaeffer that is really good.
Please consider coming to the meetings on both nights. We must not let our hospital slip through our fingers. The Bay County Commission Chairman is George Gainer. He is vehemently against being rushed into this decision, but the rest of the Commissioners need to know how you feel. They are either on the fence or for the "deal".
This will affect YOU. You may be turned away. The only other hospital in Bay County is Gulf Coast, a smaller, private, for profit hospital.
There are two hearings and if you have used the services of BMC, you should be there. The County Commission will hear from the public on February 15 and 16, in the Government Center complex on 11th Street in Panama City, at 6 p.m.
Bring your questions and your suggestions. The current administration apparently ran it into the ground with poor financial decisions.
The News Herald and the County Press have covered this shameful state of affairs for our hospital, but the County Press did an expose' in two parts by Rosalie Schaeffer that is really good.
Please consider coming to the meetings on both nights. We must not let our hospital slip through our fingers. The Bay County Commission Chairman is George Gainer. He is vehemently against being rushed into this decision, but the rest of the Commissioners need to know how you feel. They are either on the fence or for the "deal".
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
OBAMACARE AWAKENS A SLEEPING GIANT - CONSTITUTIONAL PROBLEMS
http://dancingczars.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/obamacare-awakens-a-sleeping-giant-constitutional-problems/
The whole thing - Obamacare - is a Constitutional problem! Never before have we as Americans been forced to buy insurance at exorbitant prices for so little care - and Granny and Gramps are delivered through a chute to the death panels and palliative care because we are useless eaters?
That's "murder" by a bureaucrat who sits in an office with an inbox full of potential execution orders and decides YOUR fate and MINE!
No better than Soros when he was a teenager, choosing who would live or die in Nazi Germany.
The whole thing - Obamacare - is a Constitutional problem! Never before have we as Americans been forced to buy insurance at exorbitant prices for so little care - and Granny and Gramps are delivered through a chute to the death panels and palliative care because we are useless eaters?
That's "murder" by a bureaucrat who sits in an office with an inbox full of potential execution orders and decides YOUR fate and MINE!
No better than Soros when he was a teenager, choosing who would live or die in Nazi Germany.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
Saturday, December 10, 2011
THE SKIN GUN - NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR SERIOUS BURNS
My son was badly burned the Sunday before Thanksgiving in an accident at a barbecue.
The problem was that he ended up barbecued with 20 per cent of his body (legs and arm) covered in second and third degree burns. He is healing well, but a couple of spots may still need skin grafts.
I was horrified to learn he was released from the hospital the next morning. A burn facility was in order. Although he was in pain and left to self-care until a plastic surgeon/burn specialist was found for him a couple of days later, he stubbornly refused to get a referral or contact burn facilities in Birmingham and Houston.
And then someone sent him this after he was treated for infection and released and he apologized for not listening the information he had been given.
This is a miracle. I hope others can benefit from this and I'm hoping and praying my son won't have to go through the process of skin grafts.
So please bookmark. I pray you will never have to make a visit to a burn ward for your precious ones.
The problem was that he ended up barbecued with 20 per cent of his body (legs and arm) covered in second and third degree burns. He is healing well, but a couple of spots may still need skin grafts.
I was horrified to learn he was released from the hospital the next morning. A burn facility was in order. Although he was in pain and left to self-care until a plastic surgeon/burn specialist was found for him a couple of days later, he stubbornly refused to get a referral or contact burn facilities in Birmingham and Houston.
And then someone sent him this after he was treated for infection and released and he apologized for not listening the information he had been given.
This is a miracle. I hope others can benefit from this and I'm hoping and praying my son won't have to go through the process of skin grafts.
So please bookmark. I pray you will never have to make a visit to a burn ward for your precious ones.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
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