Its funny how one can go into protection mode when one of their loved ones isn't getting the care they deserve.
My mother was a teacher for 15 years when she was diagnosed. She taught Art and Literacy. She worked every day to provide us with the things we needed. She was a hero. She paid her taxes and was one of the most honest people I have ever met. She was the type of woman who walked into a store, got too much change and always handed it back..no matter how small or large the denomination.
When your a carer and you know how generous and honest someone is it totally infuriates you to think that they are being screwed..and that is what happened my mom.
Not far into her diagnoses she was told she was to have chemo. Grand..we can deal with that. Because my mom earned a salary and at the time there was no drugs payment scheme she was not entitled to a medical card, which meant that any treatment she had to have or drugs would have to be funded by ourselves.
Now my mom was a teacher..not financially flush by any means but she earned a living and provided for three kids all her life, paid a mortgage and put food in our mouths and clothes on our backs so when the chemist told me that the monthly prescription she was going to have to have was going to run upwards of €1000 I nearly dropped dead..
She didn't have that much, she had a few thousand in savings but at this rate that would be gone due to the fact that she had to pay for her meds, (she didn't have private health insurance ) and I wasn't going to stand for it.
When I told her she was like "well we will apply for a medical card and I will pay it until we get that" I checked and these things could take about 3 months to get...then they told her she wasn't entitled to one because of her earnings the previous year... I ran amok!!!
I contacted Bertie Ahern, the Irish Prime Minster at the time and caused ructions...he informed me he would look into it..weeks passed and no luck...made threats to call Gerry Ryan..local radio host at the time...Bingo...Medical Card in the post.
The same happened in the hospital, mom got a call to go in for this new treatment...when we arrived they told us there were no available beds, we left and went home, mom was like "oh, well probably someone worse off needs it"...got a call the next day and off we went back up to the hospital, they told us they had no beds...
I lost the plot, I started screaming and shouting about playing with peoples emotions then took out my phone and told the doctor "grand, I have a friend who works for Gerry Ryan" I started pretending to dial the phone number...now I don't have a friend who works for Gerry Ryan...then I was like "Mary, yeah, we are back here again and they are telling us they haven't a bed...yeah I'm willing to go on live" the doctors face dropped and within fifteen minutes my mom was tucked up in the ward...
I probably went overboard but sometimes you need to. I respect Doctors, I know they have a job to do, but their job is to help those in need..I know politics doesn't help and it isn't personal for them...but it is for us...its very personal, its the difference between life and death!
My advise to anyone dealing with anyone is fight fight and more fight...threats threats and more threats..its the only way to get anything done. The more embarrassing you are the better...
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