Mommies Paradise

The Kerouack quack has resigned. YAY!

He turned in his much overdue resignation amid some sort of action that has been lodged against him by the Massachusetts office of Medicaid, regarding his not-really-a-private-practice private practice.* Apparently, his private practice is really A Woman’s Concern. And A Woman’s Concern is a crisis pregnancy center chain. Ann at Feministing is taking steps to get all the info.

Let’s hope that this time this lame administration decides to put someone in this position who actually believes in birth control.
*See, you can’t have a private medical practice if you are not really a doctor. I’m just saying.

I like it but I don’t know if it really communicates the feel here.

Then again, maybe, JUST maybe, it does… *wink*

“They are putting in a breathing tube. She can’t do it[breath] on her own,” she said through tears.

“I’ll be there as soon as we can get there.”

And I race home with That Baby in tow to shower and pack us for a whole day from home. We run out the door and clamber into the car. I imagine that the traffic will of course suck rocks, even in the carpool lane but I am pleasantly surprised and we sail smoothly through the 30+ miles to the hospital.

On the drive I begin to think about why I am racing to the hospital for the demise of this woman. To say a final goodbye? A woman that I have felt only apathy for over the last year or more.

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So, for this reason I have been on this website doing research, etc. and I happened upon the tab for grief resources and suggested reading. Sounds like a good idea, right? Sure.

And I noticed this:

FatherLoss; How Sons of All Ages Come to Terms with the Deaths of Their Dads
By Neil Chethik
Hyperion Press

This seems like a good book and all and it very well may be. My problem is that Forest Lawn Memorial Parks and Mortuaries does not however suggest ANY reading resources for say ‘How Daughters Come to Terms with the Death of their Mothers’ or ‘How Sons Come to Terms with the Death of their Mothers,’ or even ‘How Daughters Come to Terms with the Death of their Fathers.’ Well, you get the point. Nothing. Every other entry suggests some very basic discussion of loss on a general level.

So, being curious I went to Amazon to see if maybe the books that inevitably do exist regarding the loss of a mother, just suck and so they didn’t rate the list.

However, I did find quite a list and many of these books, at initial glance, look as helpful as FatherLoss up there.

Soooo, wtf? Hmmm?

This list just seems incomplete. I’m just saying.

The elevator doors open and I roll That Baby in his stroller out into the waiting area of the critical care unit of this hospital. A good hospital. One of the very best.

Immediately, I am not so much slammed as teased with a smell that I have never knowingly experienced.

I see my aunt and my cousin. My cousin is puffy eyed. I park That Baby with them, introduce these two to him and get out the requisite toy cars and dinosaur and silky (little blankie). I kiss him and move out.

I enter what is the first section of the critical care unit and I am assaulted by the previously teasing odor. Is it urine? Catheters and bed bans? No. It is definitely like nothing I have ever smelled before. And yet somehow I know the smell. Instinctively, I am absolutely sure of what it is.

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I thought this was lovely. I am always intrigued by how female artists represent women.

Women are beautiful.

So I caught this over at Feministing regarding some study which states that 60% of women don’t sleep. And Jessica brought up a good point:

At the top of the poll was stay-at-home moms, who get the least amount of sleep. The only comment regarding this fact was that ‘Some of these women are putting their families at risk by driving while they’re drowsy with kids in the car,’ said Dr. Kathryn Lee, of University of California, San Francisco.

Let’s not be concerned with your health consequences, think about your children some more! That will be the perfect remedy!

And she is right. Nobody really takes the time to think about what sleep deprivation means or what it can do to a person. What bothered me was one particular commenter: *

This is something that bugs me about feministing sometimes- making something out of nothing. I admit that I didn’t click on the link, but from what is posted just here on the site, I don’t see anything that says that stay-at-home mothers shouldn’t care about their own needs or health concerns. All it says is that they may be putting children at risk from driving drowsy, which is true. If you’re driving, I’m pretty sure you can determine the level of risk you’re putting yourself in, but the children can’t.

Also, if someone doesn’t know that being sleep deprived is bad for your health, then that’s pretty sad. I don’t think that’s something that can/should be taught in school or elsewhere; it’s just common sense.

Bold mine

This comment pissed me off, so here I am.
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