mercy raga bluez
that PA was stupid
the doc was even stupider still
i would be fucking pissed
they don't make noxious statements about people being punished by God
made to be sick by the Allmighty
i would be furious
you shoulda spoke right up and voiced your outrage
an th doc who demanded she go to a shrink or
he'd cut off the chemo?
that is worth not only a complaint,
but also a deep suspicion
about his intellect
which translates into less than optimal care,
less than optimal diagnostics,
even the same path report
can be interpreted differently,
is she estrogen sensitive?
have they targeted her metabolic cellular profile
to optimize dose and effect?
you should be at johns hopkins, friend,
or some affiliate hospital,
with a doctor who has priv·i·leges there,
oncologists can be either approachable or not,
and i'd fire the fucker,
but the rub is continuity of care
you can do it, tho,
and if she sees a shrink,
i'd reccommend a female nurse practitioner in psychiatry,
it can help with motivation,
endurance,
resilience, and
nutritional status,
is she being treated aggressivley enough?
are they seemingly non-plussed,
except when they utter their moronic shibboleths?
yes,
i am a cancer nurse,
i am in a good place,
where the heart is always there in Presence,
and clinically astute physicians as well,
It's my jewel mine,
and the place is loaded,
topaz and am·e·thyst ,
rubiez and sapphirez,
emeraldz and diamondz,
all in the rough,
no doubt,
we be jammin
and soulful
an beat
down for th count
then
up again,
today is my sister's birthday,
margaret, you been gone awhile,
yet i remember you were the other radical child
you were marching in washington
when i was in the war
an you were the one i told when
i was gonna bail out,
fuck the war machine,
and happy birthday, sister,
she had a brain stem tumor,
i still got her old letters,
i could never grieve more than then,
but she shined and her Ann Arbor friends
loved her even more,
and the folks planted her ashes
with a flowering crabapple tree
still there,
in an arbor,
sheltering birds
and lovers.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Margie,
Love, yer bro, Jimbo XXX
Grace and Grit