Sunday, 21 February 2016

My journey has been interspersed with ...

many tales and I have met various people. I cannot recall certain aspects for the common theme throughout is of unwritten respect of confidentiality outside of those meetings. 

I only know that for the amount of different tales and experiences that the help out there, is rationed by therapy to reach out to has many people as can be. It does not touch the surface of what is still not available routinely, for certain aspects of mental health ... especially before it tips into the unequal balance of the mind as with our family member when the mental capacity was not reconsidered right up to the death, it was not revisited and rechecked as it would have been with with our physical health ... especially women ...

I have always been amused with the way men were treated, before men's health was more thought of, when my own father in law on reaching the certain age ... was advised to make an appointment, it was patronising and sexist ... and if as with women he had had a routine test every now and then for his area of cancer ... he would have lived a bit longer. 

Fortunately since then, letters are sort of better explained and updated with the regulations of the correct language in place, since those days ... for physical health ... and only just seeping through in some areas of mental health although you need your own wits about you ... It is not standard across all the care as in my case .... unless I am missing something ...

Friday, 19 February 2016

... Wonky ... Waste of Food ... Food Banks ..

my family advised me of my local supermarket starting to roll out the selling of wonky vegetables ... in some of its stores ... just as the news seeping through of the food banks donations in this particular store ceasing to be ... ?

This is the life that passed by and I did not miss. The way marketing is done through the back door and the grotesque waste of food and the inequalities throughout time. And those who have not seen the life outside of the personal life of plenty ... with no thought or knowledge of those who can struggle ... or have no clean water ... or like us a dying person ... left in the cold, in the bleak mid winter ... in this country ...