5 minute freewrite 2410 life giving soil 2411 fair or not
This is my post for #freewriters 2410 life giving soil and 2411 fair or not hosted by @mariannewest
I have been working on cleaning this weed matt for a couple of weeks now and I am almost to the end of it.
The end is just past the pineapple plants, where the taller plants start. It has been a long back hurting and hand hurting process but I feel very happy to have it almost finished. But now I can see new weeds coming up where I started pulling them, weed pulling is a never ending process.
Every time I move a pot it is crawling with life under it.
I guess because they are the color of the soil they can not be seen but there are hundreds of life giving soil bugs crawling in this picture, or the little buggers are fast and I did not get a picture of them. But I can not see how they could be that fast.
I did not write yesterday because I spent most of the day sleeping, I was emotionally and physically drained. The night before last I had to take my daughter to the hospital. She has been wheezing for over a week and I have been fighting with her to let me take her to a doctor. Whether it is fair or not a parent should have the right to force their child to get medical help, no matter their age, instead of having to wait until the child is close to death.
She is 43 years old and either has asthma or COPD, I have had 2 doctors say COPD, and the one the other night say asthma. At 11:30pm she wakes me and wants me to check her oxygen level, I have one of the things that you stick on the end of your finger. I checked it and it is at 88 and all around her mouth was blue, I told her that is it, YOU ARE GOING TO THE HOSPITAL, but she argued with me that she was not going. Five minutes later she comes to me and says she can not breathe take her to the hospital. I let her out at the front door of the hospital and I park the truck. When I got inside they had already taken her back and had her on a breathing machine. The nurse said she was borderline when she came in. This meant she was almost to stop breathing. I lost a cousin from an asthma attack.
They gave her 8 breathing treatments, steroids into an IV, and two other things in an IV, they got her oxygen up to 96 before they let us go home at 3am.
I went yesterday morning and got her prescription filled and bought a vaporizer, she will not use the vaporizer, I know it will help her but once again I feel like my hands are tied, I can not make her do things. I am so stressed.
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It sounds awful. But I don't think anyone should be able to force anyone else to get medical treatment. She knew when it was life or death, and she chose. I'm sorry you have to deal with this. I understand.
I disagree with you, it scares me to even think of what could have happened if I had trouble with my truck on the way to the hospital, she would not be here today, she was that close to not being able to breathe. An oxygen level of 88 is very dangerous, this same thing happened to my cousin, he was with friends and they did not think it was serious enough to get him to the hospital, he died.
Praying ... the problem with all adults is that we have free will ... the hardest thing we will ever do is realize ... adults are in the Heavenly Father's hands, and there are consequences for rebellion that we cannot shield the people we love from. Your daughter SHOULD HONOR YOU and not argue as you work to save her life. That is His rule. She will either submit to the rule ... or not, and pay the consequences. But it is her choice, because she is as human as we are, and God made us with the ability and the right to choose right or wrong. As someone who has lost people I loved, I am praying because I know nothing anyone can say or do will make this easier for you ... but I am talking to the One Who can get through to your daughter and reach her heart.
Even though you say it is her choice to go to the hospital, I can not accept it when I know her life is on the line and her mental state is what it is, I thank God that it was only 5 minutes later when she realized she was in real trouble and had to go. Other than that, your comments always have a way of giving me peace. Thank you for the Prayers, I know they work.
I understand that you cannot accept it ... I do not think I would find it acceptable either, if I were in your situation, because you are there and that is your daughter. I will keep praying...
Thank you for understanding, I found it was easy for me to criticize my mom for how she put up with my sister when she was on drugs and now I am in her place and I understand why she did the things she did.
Some things we can't understand until we are THERE.
So true.