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Oscars – wealth vs poverty

Posted on | March 7, 2010 | 1 Comment

Yesterday a friend called.
Like me she’s been helping an old woman for years now.
We don’t talk about it often, because we each have our own bond with our person and both old women have other difficulties, even though both are lonely and both have to deal with physical limitations.

I’m getting the groceries for my old lady for years now.
She recently started.

I didn’t expect her call, and I was very surprised to hear her being so emotional.

Turned out that her lady called her today, which she never does, because the community nurse had forgotten to order new nappies and she had none left.

So my friend took the papers from the insurance and went to the open pharmacy which was quite far away, and they refused to help her.
From there she called the emergency service for weekend care. No help either.
She called a friend at the hospital, but she didn’t dare to take a few to give to her, and at the old people’s home they told her that they were not for people who had no economical bond with the home.

So she called me.

We both went to my woman and even though she’s not incontinent at the moment she has some spare ones. I knew that.
We three had tears in our eyes when just when we had asked her for the spare ones the posh Oscar program started on TV.

“These people don’t know what’s important”, my old lady said.
“They wear such expensive clothes that one dress probably pays for all the dresses in my whole life.
And someone out there doesn’t even have the necessary care items to be at home with a little bit of dignity.”

I couldn’t have said it better.

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One Response to “Oscars – wealth vs poverty”

  1. nanjodogz
    March 8th, 2010 @ 4:16 pm

    So true and so sad!

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