"Now is the winter of our discontent." (Richard III)

.....It is never ending, it seems. We both were up all of last night because Rho was having agonizing pain from cramps in her legs; in addition her kidneys appeared to be shutting down because she was unable to urinate--except for piddling. It hardly paid to buy the toilet. Finally, about 4am we decided to call 9-11 and had her taken to the hospital where she remained until 8:30 this morning. Seems she was dehydrated and that was causing the problems; so they hydrated her and returned her to me no worse for the wear. The second worst part of the night was having to stay up all night without any sleep, so we both tried to get some since then, but not before she went to the library to get a book she had ordered. God forbid that she should be without a book and a bottle of water. The culprit we decided was the whole corned beef sandwich she had for lunch, which of course contains salt enough to dehydrate her.

.....To continue somewhat from the previous blog re: health care reform,a bill we got from my stay in the hospital for a couple of days after overdosing a few weeks ago was for $30,000. I have no doubt that these kinds of hospital charges paid by Medicare and our private insurance goes to pay for people who have no health insurance and who are climbing on our backs. Still opposed to health care reform? And of course if illegal immigrants turn up in the ER, they are not going to be turned away, I would think. But what crazes me is that most of them ignore the need to learn English--as our grandparents did when they came to this country. I am flabbergasted that movies do not have closed caption in Spanish. It may come to that; almost everything else is in Spanish.

.....Not only that--and this has nothing to do with health care--I went through all the clothing in my closet and could not find shirt, shorts, underwear and most anything else that was made in the United States...but China, Pakistan, Mongolia, India, Iceland, and the North Pole. What with the profusion of immigrants here, the clashes between the left and the right, the political differences between Democrats and Republicans, the social and moral schisms among our people, the two wars we have been fighting for years with the loss of young life and the cost of billions of dollars that might have been used for research to cure catastrophic diseases, I fear we are no longer living in a country, but more of a boiling cauldron. And for me, the words, "God bless America" are beginning to ring hollow.