Long week mid March

Hello,


Chris has had a cold for the last week and a half and was very tough on him. We have skipped the pool through this but have picked up more Physio and bike sessions with stretching to keep him mobile and moving and it has proven to be very good as he is responding well to all the extra work and is just dealing with the trailing effects of the cold.

Update has nothing new happening, no word yet, in fact HJC in Ponoka still has no formal info or request from the BC health ministry on an extension while Chris is there.

It is starting to look like the Health minister speaking up about something he has no idea about has placed his staff in a tight situation.

Putting down the great facility in Ponoka Alberta, by telling everyone we have places like that here in our hospitals while still shipping BC Patients there for treatment.

All the staff at Fraser Health and probably every citizen that has ever had to access Rehab services in this Province knows that no place like this exists in our Province.

It is not a case of not having enough smart and trained people in our Province it is a Health ministry that refuses to bring them together under one roof for a more productive and less stressful rehab experience by the injured.

With great rehab we save money in medical costs and hospital costs as well as lost work time the numbers are over whelming, but let’s follow our Health Minister who is so off the wall in his focus, who in his words “would bring in rich Americans to pay four times the cost for an operation” and that will solve all our problems??? What a clumsy, unintelligent comment to make with no plan or explanation. He will probably spend more money to figure out if what he said was true or will even work than it would take to reduce waiting times and access to programs that are needed now! Let’s quit fooling ourselves as long as we have puppets running social services and an idiot at the helm of our health care nothing is going to change.

The promise to bring Chris back to a mutually agreeable place with all the therapy he is getting in Ponoka is fading fast. The comments from the Health Minister was we have these places in BC and we will follow the recommendations given by Chris; doctors in Alberta and BC.

The Ministry of Health have had the letters and information for over four months now, continually threatening the cancellation of his therapy, we have had two teleconferences with umpteen professionals present (I use that term loosely) and still they are asking for more information and fence sitting.

While all the high priced help in Fraser Health realize how much it will cost and have now taken six weeks to look over all the info from the last Teleconference that was to produce an answer in a week? Still they have not made a decision, it is looking like the plan was to talk the talk promise whatever it took to keep things quiet over the Olympics and now that things have slowed down and all those we pay to work in this Province are back at work and not watching or rubbing shoulders at the events. A simple plan to sit with me and talk over what is needed would save tax payers a fortune but as we know it only matters that we spend our budgets and then bitch about what we don’t have. With all the doubled up management, social workers, a health ministry out of touch with reality and bosses who have bosses who have bosses to answer to, how the hell can a regular citizen of this Province and country get the help they need.

Less bullshit, less people with titles who really don’t understand their jobs let alone what people need. It is amazing that in a system that really is dysfunctional that we need that many dysfunctional workers to man it. There is so little spent and done on behalf of the sick and injured they should only need a couple of people with a NO stamp to emboss all letters of hope or help.

Get rid of the extra baggage, put people who understand health care in place to manage and work in it. In most cases it would seem that we hire by how much a person makes not by how much he knows, in our governments case that would mean the more we can pay you the more you will tow the line and do what we tell you. Screw the people, maybe when they manage ignore the needs of enough of us we will stand together and force the change.

Remember as we all age our bones will not heal as fast or as well, in the system we now have if you don’t get better quickly you to will end up in extended care in front of a TV, and if someone is not watching their every move your health will deteriorate and soon you will no longer be a problem to the system!!!

I have more to say on ICBC but another day, just keep in mind the insurance you think you have, will prove to be useless when you need it the most.

Enjoy paying the highest premiums in the country for something that does not work? You will be lucky if you can collect even 50% of what you think you can. Not to mention the medical help you may require.

Kevin