Speakout 7/24

Call 471-6636

This is not your department but I wonder if the food ads on TV make you want to eat there? Not me. It seems Hardee's, McDonald's and Sonic take us for a bunch of morons, especially Hardee's. What does a porno queen, shifting around on a car or baby in the womb have to do with a hamburger? It is immoral and I will boycott them all.

I was wondering whose idea it was for that ridiculous stop light by Walgreen's. Coming from a side street you can't even make a left hand turn to go down North Main. It will cause more problems than you realize. We do not need it.

This is Phyllis Gates at 707 Aspen Trace and we have a little miniature schnauzer. She is salt and pepper with a little bit of white on her and a stub tail and her hair is a little bit curly like a poodle. She got out of the car and chased after a couple of stray dogs by Hucks. We are missing her very bad and we know she is missing us and she is totally lost. It was in the area of Hucks and Montgomery Bank and Main Street. Her name is Peanut. She is five years old this year. We would really appreciate it if you would bring her home or call us at 472-0865. We have called the Humane Society and no one has found her. She had a purple collar on with tags but we are afraid someone took those off or probably trying to keep her. She does have allergies and she is not used to being out. She is a loving home pet but she is scared to death of strangers.

I really don't know if you will print this or not because the Terry Schiavo case is not that old. But even in Southeast Missouri we are more or less doing the same thing. As someone in the healthcare profession, people don't understand what we go through. We went into healthcare, doctoring and nursing, so we could help sustain life. Believe you me it is a haunting situation when ever time we walk out of our facilities where we are suppose to be sustaining life yet we go along with hospice and it tears us apart mentally and physically. Because we are legally killing people. Judges you don't understand when you give someone a POA over someone. You should first make sure that that person does not want to live because we are the ones who walk into the room and takes care of them when they are asking for water, when they are asking for food and we can't give it because they are on hospice. And we can not start an IV. We can do nothing to sustain life because someone has chosen that this person should die. As human beings we fight with it, as godly people we die inside. So please families before you take that step, stop and think. Judges before you give it, doctors before you OK it sit and down and talk with that patient. Make sure you know exactly what that patient wants. It is not what the family wants by ill-gotten gains because it is ripping us apart. May God have mercy on each and everyone of us in the healthcare profession who has to step back and make that choice.

Thursday, July 14 paper said they are looking for a remedy. I got a remedy for brown recluse spiders. Kill them.