Mid-Day Musings

Hello Lovelies! Feeling a little down on myself for not adding to my blog as much as I should have lately. To make up for it, today I present you two, yes TWO articles for your enjoyment:) The fist is an enlightening look at our "dual pandemic" and how they both affect the Disabled community through a two-person interview on YouTube, belatedly also celebrating the anniversary of the ADA. The next is a print article bringing the issues addressed in the first article to a finer point with just one story. They're both interesting and informative, though the second is of course a little sad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub-5Kup6JW4&fbclid=IwAR3_FltZFT_s8rYnyn7H8f7FR6EUBL_5aWnslPJ7QQ_ElKY9IVTZp1Hmh24 The written article struck ME, first of all, because of how much "normalcy" is in the primary photo. A couple in love. It honestly doesn't look to me like there is one thing missing from this man's life. Certainly not enough to claim his quadraplegia justifies denying him care! The next thing that occurred to me is that a hospital does NOT have the right to make those decisions, legally. Unless his wife (who by the looks of the article wasn't aware of her rights) expressly surrenders her right to decide her husband's care by submitting in writing her denial as Next of Kin, a hospital can not make decisions about whether a patient lives or dies. This is the kind of thing gets swept under the rug, as the doctor alluded to in the YouTube interview. No one talks about the struggles of the Disabled to be seen as people amid a Pandemic. Compounding the difficulty is his race, which adds another dimension to the injustice. Heart-breaking, as so many of these articles and Quarantine stories about the Disabled are. But they are necessary. Nothing will change for this community unless their stories are told. https://www.npr.org/2020/07/31/896882268/one-mans-covid-19-death-raises-the-worst-fears-of-many-people-with-disabilities?fbclid=IwAR20m2GlX5e2y3V4ksSVzovBJi7XU268jdx0sOpIuOfc4MVNm47G3VNqfaY