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If You Fall, I'll Be There (the floor)
by Kathleen A Keena
Sunday, June 5, 2022

Rated "PG13" by the Author.

       
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Characters: Patient and Doctor

 

Doctor: What exactly brings you here today?

Patient: Well, I have been developing symptoms since I've been told never to leave my mother alone in her house.I have terrible pain in my right leg and spinal degeneratiopn.

Doctor: Well, you are obese. This is unhealthy. It causes your metabolism to function sluggishly. You are less motivated to fufill your goals. Regarding your mother, simply remove yourself from the situation.

Patient: That's absurd. My mother is unable to take care of herself. No one wants to take care of her.

Doctor: I'm sure your mother never raised you to be so selfish. How dare you think of yourself. And dont bother your family members! They are busy and you know it! Look at you in your luxury condo, eating chocolates all day. Of course you are unmotivated!

Patient: Well that's inappropriate.

Doctor: I know, but you told me all this in confidence and I am the medical professional who cares nothing about you.

Patient: How do I get out of here?

Doctor: You take a left, a right and a left, but I suggest you don't. I'm all you've got and I don't care. 

Patient: How does that help me?

Doctor: Why is everything about you? Can't you understand that that is your problem!

Patient: I'm beginning to think you are part of my problem.

Doctor: How dare you.

Patient: You really don't know how to help me. admit it.

Doctor: No!

Patient: Look, I've got the floor. If I fall down, the floor will be there for me.

 

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Reviewed by Ronald Hull 6/5/2022
I see this playing out quite often. You have struck a thorn in the side of our modern culture that throws away the elderly rather than take care of them.

Within nine months of becoming severely paralyzed in 1963 in my arms and hands. Being able to walk enabled me to go back to college and become independent again without the need for anyone else even while owning houses that I lived in, cooking my own food and dealing with all of the chores required that a couple normally does all myself like mowing a large lawn and doing my laundry with my own washer and dryer.

But in 1990, when I found that the floor was reaching out to find me falling quite often to broken glasses and bloody cuts requiring stitches, a rehab doctor, a very sharp woman, told me, "You need to get off your feet and into a wheelchair for your own safety. And, you need to start getting someone to help you." She gave me the number to the then TRC (Texas Rehabilitation Commission).

Because of my 30 years of independence without even needing my twin brother and living a thousand miles away from my parents, my brothers, and my sister, I struggled on for two more years before I made that call that got me an electric wheelchair supplied free by the state of Texas, and funds to hire help for three months, plus instruction on how to hire.

She went so far as having a complete workup of my spine after trying a supposed cure that a young neurologist using steroids tried for two years that didn't work.

To say that the good Dr. didn't care, would be a lie. She cared so much that she eventually had to leave that practice because caring consumed her so much trying to help people like me.

Ron

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