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Yes, out there are jobs. How do people find them? I don’t know right now.

I know that jobs in healthcare are really important. My husband spent some time in the hospital not too long ago. There were nurses on duty, there were others who also did some of the duties, but there were not enough.

I was there to help get my husband what he needed that did not require a registered nurse, or a technician. Not everyone has someone who can spend the time in each room for help them.

When I had worked as a nurses aide about 20 years ago, there were never enough people available to do the job. That fact has not changed much in the years that have gone past. Aides do the things that nurses are too busy to do. Nurses, aides, technicians, lab workers - all of those positions need to be filled, but there is a lack of personnel to fill those positions.

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This past week has been hard. Some parts of it have been good. Our long time friend had been sick in the Hospital. He was dying in the VA Hospice unit near where we live. He had lung cancer that had spread through out his entire body.

His name was James Raymond Moore and he passed away yesterday at 4 am. He had been in a lot of pain. The nurses were really gentle with him and tried to help him to escape the pain. He was having trouble breathing and each breath was a fight for him. I am very sad to loose him but, he is now no longer hurting. He loved the Lord Jesus very much, so I know that he is now in a better place. He has family but we have no idea how to locate them. He had a lot of nick-names: Jesse, Two Moons, Sonny. A half brother called Ronald and a niece called Gail. We are feeling two things right now. Sorrow for his loss, and relief for him that he no longer hurts and is in pain.

I still cry because I miss him, though. However, I wouldn’t want him to continue to suffer.

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Last night was another one of those things that makes me glad to be in America.

My husband had been having big trouble with a headache and severe dizziness. He told me that the more the headache hurt him, the dizzier he was. Considering that he has heart trouble and Diabetes, with other things going on at the same time, and he has had TIA’s it got me worried that maybe he was on the verge of having a stroke. A friend was there when I talked to him about his symptoms and helped talk him into visiting the ER just in case. They did tests, took blood and other items, and let him watch TV while he waited.

They came back after a little while and said that his blood sugar was over 300, but they couldn’t find anything also wrong with him. Thank God that was the only thing they could find.

I know that there are some countries where a doctor is not available, let alone a good hospital with full services. Here in the US, we may pay a lot for a medical visit, but at least we have the option. My brother-in-law in Arkansas is another person who is familiar with having to visit the ER. He, too, can say thanks for the availability of medical care, although he has to travel over 60 miles to Jonesborough, AR, for his visits.

He is alive, my husband is alive, I am alive, other family members are alive. Yes, we have medical bills to pay. However, they are a whole lot better than having to pay for a funeral. The loss of a loved one is so much worse than a bill.

I have heard that there are some politicians that are pushing ‘Socialized’ medicine for the US. As a person who has used our system for 54 years, to me that is a nightmare. Yes, the costs would come down, supposedly, but the cost in human lives would go up.

In some places where there is ‘Socialized’ medicine, people have to wait and get an ‘OK” in order to visit the doctor, have an operation, get tests done. Many times by time the “OK” comes through, the person effected will be dead from a serious condition that went untreated. No thanks. I want to live, I want my loved ones to live, too.

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