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Bobo doesn't have a leg to stand on! -- Credit: Les Bazso/PNG[/caption]
Used to be that that phrases like, "it's a dog's life," and, "working like a dog," stood for a hard life. We might want to consider "working like an under-paid Filipino in Canada on a limited work visa," instead, because, a "dog's life" is pretty cushy these days. My morning paper wanted me to know the sad plight of Bobo. Under the headline: SPCA hopes public can help save poodle's leg, Cheryl Chan reported how the British Columbia SPCA is appealing to the public to raise $2000 to save Bobo's leg from the chopping block. It might have been covered in your paper also. The story really had legs.
I know two fellows, one formerly homeless gent who, I'm told, probably will have a leg amputated, and another, who is homeless, who has one good leg, and one which has been a growing disaster from below the knee down, for a few years. In the latter fellow's case, it's always been"treat-then-on-the-street," though his care providers have known his leg couldn't really heal in his living conditions. A more common scenario -- which I've heard of many times -- is typified by the case, a few years ago, of homeless dumpster diver Bradley, who came down with an ugly-looking spreading rash. I strongly urged him to get to a hospital, which wrote him out a prescription for antibiotics and told him to go find a way to pay for them. That's what happened with my Bell's Palsy diagnosis. The pharmacist said the four medications in my prescription "were covered," so I was lucky, particularly as I kind of think they really weren't.
So what point could i possibly have? I'm not saying Bobo should be put down, as would've certainly been the case 20 years ago, but also I don't believe, in this day and age, anyone is going to the public to raise even a dime to improve the chances that a homeless person's leg can be saved from amputation, whereas, I believe that 20 years ago the health care system would've given him a better level of care in the first place so his leg never got so bad as to potentially require amputation.
Conservative Free Traders used to say a strong tide floats all boats, and it seems now, that Bobo and my homeless friend Limpy (soon-maybe--to-be Stumpy), are in the same boat, only Bobo's in First Class, and Limpy's in Steerage.
Budgets are tight, and attitudes, and priorities have changed. It's just one of my pet peeves, I guess.
Bobo doesn't have a leg to stand on! -- Credit: Les Bazso/PNG[/caption]Used to be that that phrases like, "it's a dog's life," and, "working like a dog," stood for a hard life. We might want to consider "working like an under-paid Filipino in Canada on a limited work visa," instead, because, a "dog's life" is pretty cushy these days. My morning paper wanted me to know the sad plight of Bobo. Under the headline: SPCA hopes public can help save poodle's leg, Cheryl Chan reported how the British Columbia SPCA is appealing to the public to raise $2000 to save Bobo's leg from the chopping block. It might have been covered in your paper also. The story really had legs.
I know two fellows, one formerly homeless gent who, I'm told, probably will have a leg amputated, and another, who is homeless, who has one good leg, and one which has been a growing disaster from below the knee down, for a few years. In the latter fellow's case, it's always been"treat-then-on-the-street," though his care providers have known his leg couldn't really heal in his living conditions. A more common scenario -- which I've heard of many times -- is typified by the case, a few years ago, of homeless dumpster diver Bradley, who came down with an ugly-looking spreading rash. I strongly urged him to get to a hospital, which wrote him out a prescription for antibiotics and told him to go find a way to pay for them. That's what happened with my Bell's Palsy diagnosis. The pharmacist said the four medications in my prescription "were covered," so I was lucky, particularly as I kind of think they really weren't.
So what point could i possibly have? I'm not saying Bobo should be put down, as would've certainly been the case 20 years ago, but also I don't believe, in this day and age, anyone is going to the public to raise even a dime to improve the chances that a homeless person's leg can be saved from amputation, whereas, I believe that 20 years ago the health care system would've given him a better level of care in the first place so his leg never got so bad as to potentially require amputation.
Conservative Free Traders used to say a strong tide floats all boats, and it seems now, that Bobo and my homeless friend Limpy (soon-maybe--to-be Stumpy), are in the same boat, only Bobo's in First Class, and Limpy's in Steerage.
Budgets are tight, and attitudes, and priorities have changed. It's just one of my pet peeves, I guess.
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