Great grandmother is another victim of socialized medicine.

[Deep13]

I just returned from back East where I went to visit relatives. While there my great-grandmother died. I will all miss her and am sad to lose her.

Her life is an example of the dangers of government medicine.

Socialized medicine finally killed her at the age of 98. I remember when she turned 65 and went on Medicare. I could tell then that she only had another 33 years left. At 83 after an operation to replace her knees, great grandmother was reduced to a miserable life of visiting friends and family, exploring the South West, hanging around at the mall, playing Santa at Christmas and making stuff out of yarn. At her 80th birthday party, I could tell that government bureaucrats would finish her off in another 18 years. The last two years she has suffered from dementia. Except for that, she died in perfect health.

[valerief]

1. We should all be so lucky as your great grammy.

Damn shame what the govt did to her.

[MichiganVote]

2. K&R LOL!

[havocmom]

3. You should get an award for turning her passing into a great lesson

:thumbsup:

[area51]

4. To the Greatest Page with you.

I hope.

[lunatica]

5. Well it could have been worse. She could have been euthanized

if she'd just lived a little longer.

[dflprincess]

8. My mother was very nearly euthanized this week

She's 85 and wound up in the ER Wednesday and spent the night in the hospital. Twice she was asked if she had a health care directive or a living will - I knew what those fiends were plotting and I was even more shocked when I heard my mother side with them when she said "If my heart stops, don't do anything, let me go." The poor dear couldn't see she was playing right into their hands!

Fortunately she survived the night and was able to go home the next day despite the EKG, the echocardiogram, and the tweaks to her medication.

:rofl:

(I can laugh now because even though there is a problem it is one that's easily controlled with meds and today she seemed in much better health already.)

[Historic NY]

6. K&R

[kestrel91316]

7. Three of my four grandparents were also killed by socialized medicine,

but in their late 80's. As was one great-grandparent.

Free market medicine, OTOH, kept the other grandparent and great-grandparents alive well into their 50's and 60's.

[ColbertWatcher]

9. So it's true what they say about socialized medicine ...

... your grandmother was forced to get a sex change to play Santa.

This whole time we've been fooling ourselves.

:cry:

[Rex]

10. At 65 she almost lived as long as I have been alive!

I'm 'only' 38.

[Deep13]

11. What's sad is my 80-year-old grandmother is now an orphan.

:cry:

[Q3JR4]

12. The humanity!

The nerve of the government giving her her health into her old age like that.

Q3JR4.

[nilram]

13. those bastards! I'm so sorry her life was unnaturally shortened! -nt

[Wednesdays]

14. K&R

:kick: