I AM ANGRY
my uncle is very sick. i am not close to him, but that is not the point of this post.
he is in the hospital and a good portion of his body has shut down. the doctors were telling my aunt they should just pull the plug. and i was SO ANGRY. my parents and i went to visit him two weeks ago and he was functional. not only that, he was responsive. he was grumpy but that seemed to stem from the fact that he was in a fucking hospital with people pricking and prodding and getting in his way. also, his natural disposition is of grumpiness--and what the hell, how many grumpy old people have you met? my uncle is one of them.
anyway, they said pull the plug and i was like where the fuck is that suggestion coming from? how could he have declined in health so horribly in the span of two weeks! and i, always quick to see the worst in people and being totally paranoid to boot, felt that they were suggesting this not because the situation was hopeless but because they wanted to make room.
yes, i seriously felt that they were pushing for my uncle's demise because of space issues. of course i kept that to myself because it's not substantiated and it's just the gnawing feeling more than anything.
they successfully convinced my aunt though, and they were ready to do it, but my dad (brother to my uncle) asked my cousin to double check that they should go through with it. so my cousin just spoke to her dad, she was like, "hey dad we're here all of us, can you wiggle your toes if you can hear us?"
and he did.
they're not going to pull the plug yet.
he is in the hospital and a good portion of his body has shut down. the doctors were telling my aunt they should just pull the plug. and i was SO ANGRY. my parents and i went to visit him two weeks ago and he was functional. not only that, he was responsive. he was grumpy but that seemed to stem from the fact that he was in a fucking hospital with people pricking and prodding and getting in his way. also, his natural disposition is of grumpiness--and what the hell, how many grumpy old people have you met? my uncle is one of them.
anyway, they said pull the plug and i was like where the fuck is that suggestion coming from? how could he have declined in health so horribly in the span of two weeks! and i, always quick to see the worst in people and being totally paranoid to boot, felt that they were suggesting this not because the situation was hopeless but because they wanted to make room.
yes, i seriously felt that they were pushing for my uncle's demise because of space issues. of course i kept that to myself because it's not substantiated and it's just the gnawing feeling more than anything.
they successfully convinced my aunt though, and they were ready to do it, but my dad (brother to my uncle) asked my cousin to double check that they should go through with it. so my cousin just spoke to her dad, she was like, "hey dad we're here all of us, can you wiggle your toes if you can hear us?"
and he did.
they're not going to pull the plug yet.