Unlearn16: Class is in Session - The One Where I Fight For Grandma Ruby

00:00:00.000 classes in session. Hey, what's up? Welcome to unlearn 16 classes in session. Today you just

00:00:09.300 get me. You get me, but you're going to get a bit of a rant. I don't know which direction this is

00:00:15.200 going to go into because I'm all like frustrated, emotional, a little sad. But if I don't get it

00:00:22.520 out, you know, guys, it just sticks in my head and keeps me up at night. So here we are. A lot

00:00:27.740 of you guys have been following the fact that, you know, my mom had bladder cancer and she went

00:00:33.300 through the hospital system, had her bladder out and had not a great experience. Now, that was at

00:00:40.980 the height of COVID, okay? And so, obviously, we were trying to take into account all of the

00:00:47.180 different things that were going on at the time, all the ways in which these people were overworked

00:00:52.400 and everything like that. But my mom's also been a nurse. She was a nurse for like 45, 50 years 0.58

00:00:58.900 before she had this surgery. And it broke her heart, the way that she was treated. And in

00:01:06.460 retrospect, it was pretty horrible. And what it came down to was an economic bottom line. And

00:01:12.480 that's important for the story I'm about to tell you when it comes to my grandma Ruby. So everything

00:01:18.480 mattered because they have a timeline. When you come into the hospital, and this is in Ontario,

00:01:23.820 Canada, for those who are listening, and I know those from the States like to listen

00:01:28.080 to the fact that even though we have socialized medicine up here and it's covered, and I am

00:01:32.980 incredibly grateful for that, do not think for a minute that there aren't forces chipping away

00:01:39.580 at that system until it resembles and until it's fractured beyond repair, so we have to go private.

00:01:47.180 And I feel like that's where we are right now. And I need to have this conversation. So my mom went in, 72 years old, had her bladder out, had a hysterectomy, major, major, major surgery, got C-diff when she was in the hospital. She was super sick. They didn't catch it right away. And then they sent her home. And then they sent her home. And I was too, like I wanted her home. She wanted to be home. I couldn't go see her. I was too inexperienced.

00:02:14.020 I was too frazzled and emotional to know how to advocate for my mom and recognize my mom was a

00:02:21.040 nurse forever. She tried to advocate for herself. They ignored it. I have been around hospitals 0.99

00:02:26.140 forever. I consider myself relatively intelligent. I didn't know how to advocate until I learned.

00:02:32.780 And then eventually she came home way too sick to be home. We sent her back. And as we sent her back,

00:02:39.580 this amazing guy, his name was Adam, actually, I did a TikTok about him a long time ago,

00:02:44.260 helped her back in the hospital and said, listen, 70% of people are coming right back in because

00:02:49.140 they're sending them out too sick too soon because they either need the bed or it's about money.

00:02:55.500 Now, needing the bed is one thing, okay? Needing the bed means we don't have enough care. And

00:03:00.300 during COVID, I get it because it was, well, it was debilitating. But I think it's more about the

00:03:07.740 money. And I think it's more about the money we have siphoned out of our medical system,

00:03:13.360 out of nursing, out of nursing assistants, of RNs, of PSWs, out of all of that. We've siphoned

00:03:22.360 it out to give the bare, bare minimum, and then just assume that family members are going to come

00:03:28.860 pick them up and give them actual care, medical care. So when my mom came home, I couldn't do it.

00:03:35.740 I didn't know what to do.

00:03:36.800 It was so overwhelming that she went back in the hospital and actually got, was getting

00:03:40.380 better.

00:03:40.760 At this point, I was smarter.

00:03:42.960 And at this point, I talked to a few people and I said, listen, my mom's not leaving here 0.97

00:03:47.760 until she's ready to go to a rehab center.

00:03:50.240 And they went, oh, they said, well, you're gonna have to find out a rehab center.

00:03:53.560 I said, don't worry, I'm finding one.

00:03:55.040 And they're like, oh, well, so she can go home now because you just told me she's ready

00:03:59.400 to come home. 0.99

00:04:00.240 Well, she's not ready for the rehab center. 1.00

00:04:01.980 We have to have her at a certain level.

00:04:03.520 I said, excuse me? You have to have her at a certain competency, a certain health level, 0.97

00:04:10.480 a mobility level to send her to rehab. But you didn't need to have her at that level to send 0.97

00:04:16.020 home to me. And that's where I knew it was about the damn money and responsibility because rehab's 1.00

00:04:22.260 not going to take her. They know that hospital knew she wasn't healthy enough to go. Anyway, 1.00

00:04:28.780 so I played that card. I said, she's going to rehab. She said, okay. So she stayed an extra 0.95

00:04:34.300 like three days until she was healthy enough. And then they said, she's healthy enough to go

00:04:38.280 to rehab. I said, great. She's coming home. I think I pissed. I had a very large discussion

00:04:44.240 with the manager on that floor. They were very angry. They didn't know what the game I played.

00:04:49.380 Well, screw you. Forget you. So fast forward to now, because now I am worked up. 1.00

00:04:56.780 so about a week and a half ago my grandma gets sick okay we don't know what's wrong with her

00:05:03.060 she's not very good at telling us what's wrong she just takes to her bed and goes to sleep

00:05:08.020 so that happened um i think on like a monday and by thursday she was refusing to get up um

00:05:15.680 obviously she she had what we thought may have been the flu so she was very dehydrated by all

00:05:21.280 of those things nobody needs to go down that road to describe them but you get my point

00:05:24.980 and she's at my aunt's house because she hasn't been at our house for a significant amount of

00:05:29.860 time because I've been taking care of my mom and her getting immunotherapy and all of that.

00:05:33.740 My mom's just starting to rebound, just starting to get a bit healthier, just starting to be

00:05:37.460 without pain and all the stuff that comes with immunotherapy. And this happens to my grandma at

00:05:42.420 my aunt's house. So my aunt doesn't know what to do. And eventually I say, okay, well, you know, 1.00

00:05:46.580 my mom and my aunt and everybody talks and they're going to take her to the hospital.

00:05:49.660 Grandma doesn't want to go. So we have to talk my grandma to go into the hospital.

00:05:52.560 my mom goes over there they talk her into the ambulance she goes to the hospital and of course 0.69

00:05:56.800 she's horribly dehydrated right because my grandma's taken to her bed for a few days she doesn't

00:06:00.720 eat she doesn't drink nothing she's like i'm gonna sleep through it all so she's in the hospital and

00:06:05.540 when she's there i immediately go and she's in the emerge and you know they're trying to get blood and

00:06:11.360 check out everything and see what's wrong with her and they find out that she's very dehydrated so

00:06:16.580 they know they're going to keep her for that they don't know because she's fallen a couple times so

00:06:20.520 they don't know if she's had a bad enough fall to actually cause a problem or if you know then

00:06:29.400 they're just going to x-ray everything make sure that's okay so they do that they want to make sure

00:06:33.180 you know they're doing blood tests they got to do a stool sample they got to do this they got to do

00:06:36.380 that okay so they find out all the things that are initially wrong but they still hadn't done

00:06:43.000 a stool sample so she's in the hospital and they're like well she's getting better so it's time for

00:06:48.460 her to go. And eventually they do the stool sample and find out that she has a parasite.

00:06:53.960 Now, the funny part of this story is, even though there's really no funny parts of this story,

00:06:57.840 this is a parasite that you get from fresh fruit and vegetables. Let me tell you what my grandma

00:07:02.040 does not eat, a fresh fruit or vegetable. We laughed about it, right? Now, when she's been

00:07:09.500 in this hospital, we've noticed her going up and down. Also understand that somebody from my family

00:07:16.380 has been there or multiple people has been there every single day that she's been in the hospital

00:07:22.220 for the past week and a bit, every single day. And what I don't understand is how anybody gets

00:07:28.240 treatment. Anybody gets better. Anybody knows what's going on unless they are there. What kind

00:07:34.240 of healthcare system do we have where somebody is in the hospital and the only way their family

00:07:39.940 knows they're being taken care of is they're sitting right beside them, making sure they call

00:07:43.960 the nurse. How does that happen? So my grandma's had okay days and then really bad days. And on

00:07:52.140 those really bad days, they're not getting her up out of bed. They're not making her eat. They're

00:07:57.140 not talking into anything. They're not talking her back into getting an IV. And listen, my grandma

00:08:03.400 can be stubborn as all get out. I know it. I know it. And you can't force care on somebody. I get 1.00

00:08:09.200 that. So there's parts of this I can respect. But let me also tell you this, right in front of my

00:08:15.460 grandma's bed, and I've been there almost every day. I wrote my name, I wrote my relationship to

00:08:20.800 her, and I wrote my phone number. I said, listen, if she calls for me, you call me, text me, I don't

00:08:26.460 care. I'll be here in 15 minutes. If you can't get something done, i.e. you can't get her to have a

00:08:32.380 bath. By the way, I thought they bathed people in the hospital. Apparently that's not happening.

00:08:37.240 get her in the bath she needs an IV she needs like whatever whatever's going on you can't handle it

00:08:43.960 okay because I know they're short-staffed and again a good chunk of this I understand comes

00:08:50.060 directly from Doug Ford and his conservative party in Ontario and the cuts they've made to

00:08:55.660 our health care system because it's disgusting he's hoping it crumbles so that we privatize it

00:09:02.260 and it feels for about 37 seconds like we've been saved. Make no mistake about it, and then it's

00:09:09.280 going to be a real disaster. So they're very understaffed. They have no PSWs. They have nobody

00:09:14.300 to help with anything. So I get it. That's why my number was there. Nobody's ever called me

00:09:19.060 on one time. I go there sometimes, and depending on the nurse, I get treated like garbage. I ask 0.98

00:09:26.200 what her blood values are. Well, we told somebody else. Yeah, but I'm here now. I'm here now,

00:09:30.780 and I'm on the chart. I know I'm on the chart. We've been here. Everybody's talked. And they

00:09:36.620 just sometimes treat me. Some people. Other nurses have been amazing. They'll sit there.

00:09:42.380 They'll say, oh, here you go, Joanna. Here's your potassium. Here's your creatinine. Here's

00:09:47.500 how she's doing. Fantastic. She wants to get out of bed, whatever. My grandma does not want to 0.93

00:09:54.620 stay in bed and use the bot. She wants to get up. And I want to encourage that because I don't want 1.00

00:09:58.780 become bed ridded so the problem is she's supposed to push this button do you know how long it takes

00:10:03.500 for somebody to get to the grandma from somewhere else in the hospital forever if i woke up and had

00:10:11.500 to go to the bathroom and they made me wait that long i would too not be able to make it so my

00:10:15.420 grandma has fallen at least once that we're aware of because she tried to get up out by the way that

00:10:22.140 rail was up up out of the bed an alarm goes off in which they're supposed to come um in order to

00:10:28.620 get to the bathroom so she doesn't use go in the bed which again what a horrible thing to make 0.97

00:10:36.140 somebody injure so all of that has happened i've been there when she wants to go and she definitely

00:10:43.100 wants to go quick at this point i'm thinking she has a uti somebody needs to be testing that

00:10:47.740 and my mom's there now so she's you know figuring all that stuff out um and you start to hear

00:10:54.540 rumbling so all of this is going on she they find out that she has a parasite but they're not really

00:10:58.780 giving her anything for the parasite because her kidney function is not awesome well her kidney

00:11:02.380 function is not awesome because she's really dehydrated and it's very cyclical but then

00:11:06.380 they're starting to talk about um releasing her and i said excuse me so i was there on the weekend

00:11:11.980 i said releasing her i go well that doesn't make any sense to me um because before she came here 0.98

00:11:19.420 she could get up she could use the washroom she could sure as hell go for three or four cigarettes 0.97

00:11:23.660 today she came with me the casino she ate she can't do any of that right now none of it so 0.99

00:11:31.700 you're telling me she's that dehydrated she's that weak and you're saying go home well at that point

00:11:39.960 you know obviously my grandma's needs are higher so so throughout all of this we're trying to figure

00:11:45.520 out what kind of a place like assisted living kind of place that we are going to get here

00:11:50.680 And I'm not going to go into detail, guys, but I don't know who has money, the money

00:11:58.540 you would need to be treated well.

00:12:03.080 And the government facilities that people talk like it's like being in prison, a step

00:12:08.820 above prison, they're like three or four grand a month, $3,000 to $4,000 a month.

00:12:15.380 That is not where my grandma will be going.

00:12:17.520 So you could only imagine.

00:12:18.660 I'm not going to talk numbers here, but you can only imagine the cost.

00:12:21.820 Now, the place is beautiful.

00:12:23.300 Don't get me wrong.

00:12:24.940 Beautiful. 1.00

00:12:25.660 And I can't wait to try to get her into the pool. 0.71

00:12:27.740 But so as we're saying that she's going there, the hospital's like, cool, she can go and

00:12:32.640 get taken care of there.

00:12:33.920 Well, that's not what these places are.

00:12:35.200 They're not medical facilities.

00:12:36.540 They have medical care. 0.97

00:12:37.880 But when she's that sick that week, how is our hospital system not taking care of that?

00:12:44.700 And I'm telling you why, guys, because they want somebody else to do it.

00:12:48.660 that is a perfect example of privatization out you go go on you can get home care your family

00:12:59.180 can handle it you can go to assisted living you can pay for it just get out of the hospital

00:13:04.380 this is health care i don't know any clearer version of what should be covered in ontario

00:13:12.160 health care than a 97 year old woman who has a parasite and is incontinent and can't get to 1.00

00:13:18.300 the washroom is dehydrated and isn't eating. How is that not medical care? 0.99

00:13:25.460 So now, of course, because I'm me and I'm my mother's daughter and my mother is my mother

00:13:31.380 and my uncle and my aunt are all like, nope. So we start calling people, right? We start calling

00:13:37.640 people and saying, whoa, whoa, whoa. I go in, I talk to the doctor himself. He said, well,

00:13:42.180 you know what? I want her to be strong, strong enough to do all the things she did before. 0.59

00:13:46.360 that makes sense amazing then today you would a nursing manager say no she's ready to go home

00:13:53.080 what how did that happen how did that happen so quick i'll tell you how it happened so quick

00:13:59.720 because it's an economic bottom line not a health one well now the nursing manager knows she's going 0.98

00:14:06.360 to an assisted living facility so she can be taken care of there but i know that if my grandma's too 1.00

00:14:11.640 sick she will be put taken back there and then shipped right back to the hospital

00:14:17.960 this manager actually had the audacity and it's going to hit the fan if things don't straighten

00:14:23.880 up there it's going to hit the fan but the and i i haven't named names yet as you guys could

00:14:30.200 very be very clear i promise you if it doesn't get better i will be naming all the names i will be

00:14:37.480 be doing a series of TikToks. I will be calling the CBC. I will be calling anybody that will

00:14:43.180 listen to come and see what is happening there. Doug Ford himself can drag his ass from his 1.00

00:14:49.160 cottage to see what he's done to the healthcare system. Also recognizing in my rant, guys, 0.99

00:14:57.040 there might be some bad actors in this situation, but I have had lovely nurses and that doctor was

00:15:02.920 amazing. So don't think for a second I'm just putting the blame on them. I'm not. But I have

00:15:09.680 had nurses that talk to me like I'm garbage. That talk to my grandma like she's garbage. And I'm 1.00

00:15:16.760 telling you right now, that isn't going to happen anymore. And this nursing manager of the floor

00:15:24.220 said that she spoke. So today, well, it's time to go home. I spoke to where your grandma's going

00:15:29.860 and made arrangements then we called guess what she didn't do she never did that she never spoke

00:15:38.260 to anybody at the nursing at the assisted living facility she lied in order to i don't know what to

00:15:46.500 do make it seem like this was just a natural thing that needed to happen we arrived lied to the wrong

00:15:54.580 family because now my mom's down there asking for receipts not actual receipts but receipts

00:16:05.060 now she's done for the night so she won't see her i've never met the nursing manager

00:16:09.940 because when i go it's on the weekend or it's after school and that she wouldn't be there

00:16:15.780 uh i can't wait i can't wait to meet them but what i really need to talk about

00:16:23.180 is the health care we are not giving to our elderly that's what i want to talk about and

00:16:30.480 i'd really like to friggin know how it's not health care how we've divided it into this

00:16:36.940 separate thing i don't even listen long-term care facilities and all of those things that you wait

00:16:42.000 years for i don't know how that works i don't know who gets in that list how bad it has to be

00:16:48.720 but it's not is it's not my grandma and i've also heard and seen horror stories about what

00:16:56.480 goes on in those facilities and a lot of them are government run but they're government paid

00:17:02.400 but privately run and therein lies the problem this is what happens when you see creeping in

00:17:11.280 privatization of actual healthcare into our world that is taking advantage of the weakest members

00:17:21.760 of our society my grandma can't remember what you just did two or a half an hour ago

00:17:27.440 how dare you i i can't even know i'm trying to i'm trying to rely on the things that our taxes

00:17:37.760 pay for that this amazing healthcare system is supposed to be there for because I have a job

00:17:42.840 because I can't be there and and everybody's telling me I need to let go of control and all

00:17:48.440 of those things and that's great and I get that let go of it to who and what is their goal and

00:17:55.420 what is their driving force because if it's an economic bottom line how can that be healthcare

00:18:02.740 it's not this is for profit health care of our senior citizens and i know i've never been

00:18:14.740 passionate about this before because now my gram is involved right so a lot of people are like

00:18:19.060 well you've never taught it's been an issue forever of course it is of course it is but of course the

00:18:23.460 reason why we get into issues is because we are passionately connected to them we see with our own

00:18:28.820 eyes 0.99

00:18:33.620 i don't understand how senior citizens are supposed to afford it i don't understand how

00:18:38.660 family supposed to trust it i don't understand how these people are so easily pushed aside

00:18:44.900 to sit in a bed listen my grandma's been at this hospital for a week and a half i said to my mom

00:18:50.020 today and i asked when did she get bathed oh i don't know i don't know if they do that what the

00:18:56.340 what do you mean you don't know what is it not in her chart how is that not a 97 year old who is

00:19:04.900 immobile who can't get up who obviously has had accidents or whatever's going on that's not just

00:19:10.340 an in the bed bathing situation how dare we treat people that way and that's true of every person

00:19:19.700 that's in the hospital that can't advocate for themselves you know they say ruby just press the

00:19:25.620 button my grandma has dementia she can't remember when you've given her instruction to press a

00:19:31.860 button for you to come help her now do i understand that then it becomes incredibly difficult absolutely

00:19:39.220 but when you hear that bell of somebody getting out you better be on your wheels to get there

00:19:45.300 somebody better be somebody better be then i start looking around and there's a lot

00:19:52.020 and again all of this isn't at the feet of of nursing staff and and you know doctor

00:19:58.980 staff and all of that because they are so overworked because they are not adequately staffed

00:20:08.420 because that's what we voted for in ontario i want everybody to think about when they voted 0.99

00:20:15.300 and got their 136 dollar back sticker on their stupid plate what they thought was going to happen 0.99

00:20:21.620 to public health care what they thought was going to happen to public education what they thought 1.00

00:20:26.580 was going to happen to this huge baby boom um group of men and women who are going to get sick 0.99

00:20:34.100 and stay sicker longer because we have the capacity to keep them alive but they need care 0.92

00:20:38.900 and that's not saving for your future guys that's like millionaire level i want to be real clear

00:20:48.620 again i'm not going to say how much we spent and how much we're going to i want to be real

00:20:53.300 clear that if somebody needed that kind of care for five ten years you need to be a millionaire

00:21:01.740 And that's not being hyperbolic

00:21:07.460 You need to be a millionaire

00:21:10.460 In Canada

00:21:12.240 Where we pay a significant sum of tax

00:21:16.580 To make sure that we have a strong social safety net

00:21:19.960 Does that not include our elderly? 0.98

00:21:25.040 Does it not?

00:21:27.560 You have all of these different things in Canada too

00:21:29.980 So like in Ontario, you have people that will come into your home.

00:21:33.360 Well, people that will come into your home in order to take care at certain times to

00:21:37.320 do certain things.

00:21:38.260 And that's great.

00:21:40.300 But for example, people that have, you know, aren't very mobile or people that can't wash

00:21:47.200 themselves or people that can't get up in the morning and all of those kinds of things.

00:21:50.700 These services are very sort of concrete and time driven, which I understand.

00:21:56.700 But that's not how a 97 year old can work.

00:21:59.980 it's just not and so there's no flexibility there and when they come to do something with

00:22:06.780 my grandma at 11 o'clock in the morning my grandma can't get up because she feels horrible at 11

00:22:10.620 o'clock in the morning because her body hurts because she's 97 she has horrible arthritis

00:22:14.620 they say okay well we won't do it today so now what so does the family have to do it how do we

00:22:21.020 get her out of bed how do we get her safely into the tub how do we how do we how do we how do we

00:22:24.940 and they want you to keep their your um family members at home because they don't want the

00:22:33.040 system to have to pay because it's an incredible expense well watch what happens guys and i can't

00:22:40.460 let this happen to my mom which is why i you know i can't do all of these things my mom's 73 gone

00:22:46.740 through that huge you know cancer bladder everything out immunotherapy and now just on the 0.97

00:22:54.120 mend hopefully on the way up if she then became responsible to physically take care of my grandma 1.00

00:23:01.320 what she needs my mom physically can't do anymore she's not strong enough she's not capable enough 1.00

00:23:06.360 she has a stoma like she has a a bag that she has to change and has to keep she has a lot on her own 1.00

00:23:12.780 how how are we supposed to have all those balls in the air who the hell's keeping track of that

00:23:17.520 nobody oh she's at home cool we'll be fine then and when you're in the hospital i need to have

00:23:25.680 a delineated sense of what healthy looks like i want to know because i feel as though guys

00:23:36.400 i feel as though they're erring way on the side of well it's been four days it's been five days

00:23:41.520 that's long enough she's kind of okay we're gonna send her home if she gets better cool if she has

00:23:45.440 to come back okay? Are we rolling that dice? Because that's what you did with my mom. And 0.87

00:23:51.380 that's sure as hell what you're trying to do with my grandma. I was like, I'll let you.

00:23:54.540 Nor all the other people that are in her corner trying to make sure she's taken care of.

00:23:58.480 And thank God we're there all the time. Thank God trying to make her eat, trying to get something

00:24:03.000 else, trying to get water in her. She can't hold her own water because her hands shake.

00:24:08.320 Now I understand. I'm going in circles sometimes. Nurses can't sit there and help my grandma drink

00:24:14.860 water i get it i get it but we need to figure out somebody to do it

00:24:23.500 we don't need more beds if i hear doug ford talk about more beds in a hospital one more time i am

00:24:29.340 going to lose my ever-loving mind we need more nurses and whatever form that takes nurses nursing

00:24:36.460 assistants psws i however that looks we need a lot more bodies doing a lot more jobs to make

00:24:44.700 sure people are getting better in hospitals then you won't have infection rates the way you do

00:24:50.700 then you won't have um you know people coming back within days of leaving the hospital because

00:24:56.940 they weren't good enough to leave in the first place and you wouldn't have people like me saying

00:25:03.100 well she's going to rehab because i know i have to play the system because if i don't see she's

00:25:06.220 going to rehab you're going to send her home sick and hope that i take care of her and hope for the

00:25:10.300 best but if she's going to rehab you know rehab has high expectations so she has to be much better 0.74

00:25:16.860 than if she were to go home with me with no medical knowledge whatsoever 0.97

00:25:21.420 and as soon as they knew my grandma was going to assisted living and it's like oh yeah sure 0.59

00:25:25.260 she can go she can go she can go no she can't we need to have much better standards i need to know 0.97

00:25:33.660 what health care looks like because taking care of our elderly damn it is health care 0.99

00:25:40.700 it's not elderly care it's not long-term care none of this bull crap i feel as though 0.98

00:25:46.940 they've separated the language so that the elderly aren't taken care of the way that they should be

00:25:55.900 and it's separated out to now these private long-term care facilities that maybe the

00:26:00.540 government is paying for or that the people are paying for so that the government and then it can

00:26:09.740 say well not on us not on us does that mean more taxes yeah yeah it does let me say it again it 0.97

00:26:19.500 means taxes and it also means we don't get stupid you know what those stickers cost ontario out of 0.99

00:26:27.660 the budget 1.3 billion that's with the b dollars how dare whoever voted for that how dare you 1.00

00:26:38.620 how dare you be that selfish and doug ford how dare you siphon money out of the system

00:26:44.780 that is ready to break how dare you and if you think this is a rally cry if you think this is 0.99

00:26:52.380 step one you're absolutely right you're absolutely right

00:27:00.780 because we can't just sit around and watch this crumble

00:27:03.820 until it's your grandfather your mom your sister

00:27:07.740 that isn't being taken care of because the conservatives have decided

00:27:12.060 that a rebate of 136 dollars was more important to buy votes

00:27:19.500 We are not going to sit by anymore to allow a conservative government, and I am saying conservative because I swear to God, is figuring out ways, slowly but surely, figuring out ways to privatize the health care system in this province.

00:27:36.820 every day he chips away every day every single day he opens up new land for development that

00:27:47.300 his friends make a bunch of money on gives people rebates and buys their votes and by the way i

00:27:52.800 blame you the 17 absolutely absolutely i blame you how dare we ever be convinced that 130 in

00:28:04.580 our pocket every year is somehow not going to affect the system as a whole

00:28:11.940 you weren't convinced of that you chose to ignore it because you like the money in your pocket 1.00

00:28:18.660 we'll wait till it bites you in the ass just wait wait till you're old i'm sitting here thinking 1.00

00:28:24.340 about what the hell happens when i'm that age how expensive is it going to be you plan for retirement 1.00

00:28:31.940 You don't plan to be sick and cost thousands and thousands of dollars from a health care system that you've put money into for your entire life.

00:28:41.480 Is that where we're at?

00:28:43.300 To be left in a bed, nobody washing you, nobody taking care of you, unless you have family who is able to do shift work to make sure they're taking care of you the way that you're supposed to be taken care of.

00:28:56.540 How dare we?

00:28:58.520 How dare we trust any government?

00:29:01.420 any government that promises tax cuts in a socialized medical and educational system

00:29:09.020 where we know it is one of our primary goals to have basic needs met well i'm telling you right

00:29:16.060 now healthcare is a basic need and our elderly are not having it met we've changed the language

00:29:24.140 we've changed the rooms we've changed the accommodations it's a shell game

00:29:30.620 To siphon money from people who can't advocate for themselves, who maybe don't remember, who can't articulate.

00:29:41.080 And by the way, there are beautiful people working in long-term care facilities, in hospitals, all over the place,

00:29:48.360 who are trying their best to take care of these people.

00:29:51.180 I don't know how they don't go home broken every day, because it can't be done, because there's not enough money on the table.

00:29:55.960 so doug not only am i coming at you for education but i'm coming at you for this

00:30:04.760 how dare we trade our health care coverage in this province in this country how dare we think

00:30:18.160 for a minute, for a single minute, that we should let it degenerate into what the majority of

00:30:26.320 America is facing right now. How dare we? How dare we have this much money as a country,

00:30:31.800 be one of the richest countries in the world, and our elderly are being treated like that?

00:30:36.600 How dare we? Well, I'm telling you, I'm not standing for it anymore.

00:30:42.440 so leave your comments below leave your stories below i am going to go deeper and further into

00:30:51.940 this the more that i get into it the more examples that i see and i'm only gonna i'm only i only can

00:30:57.760 do it from shared experience so please share your experience and let's start making sure that our

00:31:07.100 voices. That the voices of people who can't speak for themselves are louder and bigger 1.00

00:31:14.540 than the voices that are saying, here's your $136 rebate. How dare we? And on that note, guys, 0.89

00:31:25.760 my throat is sore. I feel a little emotionally exhausted. Thank you for being my listening post,

00:31:31.800 to hear all of the thoughts going on in my head. I'm sorry if this was all over. I'm sorry

00:31:36.860 that this felt angry, but it is, it is angry. And hopefully I can figure out a way to make

00:31:44.060 a significant impact in what we're having happen to our elderly and our healthcare system.

00:31:50.860 Thank you for spending your time with me and I will see you next week.

00:31:54.320 Same bad time, same bad station. Dismissed.

Unlearn16: Class is in Session - June 06, 2023

The One Where I Fight For Grandma Ruby

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