A Very Medical Thanksgiving

So we were supposed to go upstate New York to visit friends and stay with them at their house for the holidays. The culmination was to be a lovely Thanksgiving dinner. But the fates had other plans for us, our lovely Sadie

Sadie the Burmese Lady

had pancreatitis and was in the vet hospital overnight, but then she was better and came home. But in the last couple of days she started thowing up and not eating, well long story shot, another trip to the vets and now for the next 5 days she is getting subcutaneous fluids, something I have lots of experience doing, as I did this for my old cat Sam who passed away, everyday for two years. So now one of us is going away, and I am staying home being larryosan the cat vet tech.

I am still happy for this season and this is minor stuff compared to what people are facing at this time of the year and in fact for all the time of the year in places plagued by war, ground down for profits and just miserable state due to history and circumstances. Sometimes living in the US we tend to forget the reality of others even those living right next to us if in very different circumstances except when reminded by the professional misery mongers who may or may not have good intent but avoid the primary issue of causation of misery in the world. And the preachers who tell us we are lazy and arrogant and unworthy of God's blessings etc etc.

So still I say thanks that my life is relatively prosperous at this moment and that I have a job and am in decent health. And I feel anger for the rest.

A couple of lines from a poem by Ginsberg sums it up.

" Poet is Priest
Money has reckoned the soul of America
Congress broken thru to the precipice of Eternity
the President built a War machine which will vomit and rear up
Russia out of Kansas
The American Century betrayed by a mad Senate which no longers sleeps with its wife."

The date may have changed but circumstances have not changed much.

ta ta for now