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#BLM Looters Target Ronald McDonald House With Sick Children Inside

Thursday, 13 August 2020, 7:57 BFH Uncategorized 11

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  2. …this is kind of a repeat from an earlier thread on the same topic, but it bears repeating. Plus I can always add more, you all know how I do, so…

    …despite the fact that my son required multiple surgeries before his first year and many thereafter, I never had to personally use a RMcD House as I live within 1/2 hour and never left his room anyway, but I spent many an hour in the smoking area (they HAD them then) with parents with severely stricken children from other states, even other countries, who DID. Some went there in the midst of a crisis where their child went by AirCare and they grabbed what they could and followed as fast as they could, others in a more planned fashion…but ALL were focused more on their child than themselves, and generally (pre-Internet) didn’t know the area or have funds for an extended stay or a rental car, or any way of knowing anything about where they were going.

    Enter the Ronald McDonald House.

    These places don’t offer 5 star amenities, but they do offer a warm bed, clean, comfortable rooms, musical and video entertainment consistent with the times, and – most importantly- close proximity to their child at all times.

    Unfortunately, because they are close to hospitals, and the hospitals tend to be in the dense parts of the cities they serve, they can be in some pretty grotty neighborhoods. The one nearest me, despite the hospital being a world-class facility, has the House across the street from a typical urban, eh, “culturally enriched” neighborhood that features both drug and live-fire shooting galleries of the sort that are wildly inaccurate because the guns are held sideways, so much so that the facility has taken stray bullets before.

    Because of the nature of the place, though, even the normally supine CPD does attempt to defend it, but the locations are also such that they are EXTREMELY vulnerable should the political winds blow the Police away.

    And NO ONE there has guns. Most only have CLOTHES.

    And frequently, mostly, they are young mothers, sometimes with young children.

    They don’t have much because of how and why they are there, and what they DO have probably won’t satisfy a maurauder.

    So the maurauder may seek a DIFFERENT satisfaction from the encounter…

    …NO ONE should have to put up with this. Please believe I speak from considerable experience when I say dealing with a child in Death’s shadow is pretty much EVERYTHING you can deal with, you REALLY don’t need OTHER peoples’ petty political bullshit even if they’re NOT trying to rob, rape, and murder you. You ALREADY feel powerless because you have to trust doctors you don’t know with your gift from God. so having some slobbering asshole threaten you over some half-understood shit that happened in another time and place that didn’t involve you AT ALL is just complete unmitigated sadism.

    Just to give a taste of what those folks live throgh, let me give you one of my own that I’ve lived. When my son was just new, he had to have major maxillary and craniofacial surgeries to correct his oral anatomy so he could do little things like breathe, eat, and live, with THREE of these surgeries happening in his first YEAR. Because he was an infant without understanding, the hospital had what they called “induction rooms”, a non-sterile antechamber to the surgical theatre proper where a parent needed to hold and comfort their child while these scary folks with most of their faces hidden hurt them with tubes and did things with wires. The parent gets to hold the mask and the child until he passes out, then he has to be QUICKLY whisked into the surgical theatre for rapid intubation out of the parent’s view so he doesn’t die. Being a medic and very familiar with laryngoscopes, (with a baby, more likely) stylets, and the planting of an ET tube, I KNOW what they were trying to hide from me and, brother, there’s a REASON they hide it.

    Anyway, I always got to be the holder, admittedly by my own choice, because I was the big tough hardened medic guy and didn’t want to put my wifey through that. Also, the little bologna loaf seemed kind of partial to me in some things, so I was the holder. I would go in there with my full game face on, talk soothingly to my baby boy gently but firmly, avoiding all the IVs and such, and maintaied this pose until the drugs hit him and he went limp as a boned fish in my arms, dead weight that was suddenly berift of the animation of life. I would then gently, but rapidly, put him on the gurney, walk out one set of double doors while he was whisked through the opposite set…then collapse in the hallway into a blubbering mess because I didn’t know the Lord but I DID have a pretty ingrained road map of all the horrors, bad outcomes, and death he was immediately facing that was COMPLETELY out of my hands. Then some kind nurse would usually come by, ask if I was all right, and that was my cue to put my game face back on, lie that I was, then go back to my wife and family and contine to exude confidence I in no way had that everything would be all right, as we settled in for hours of agonizing waiting while people we did not know held our son’s life in the balance.

    Yep, it was like that for ME. Good times. And MY son wasn’t even CLOSE to the crap people in the McD house had to put up with. THEY were dealing with infant heart surgeries, lung surgeries, throat anatomy so fucked up that newborns couldn’t breathe without a cric, brain swellings, brain bleeds, annotomical disorders that impaired major organs, poisonings, limb damage, and shit the doctors didn’t even KNOW what it was, all while HUNDREDS or THOUSANDS of miles from home.

    And now someone wants to FUCK with them? Over POLITICS?!? And LOOT them?!?

    No. God Damn them.

    But God bless McDonald’s for those facilties. I’m not a fan of The Clown in MOST things, but kudos for THAT.

    …and while I’ve never used a McD’s House,I DID have to use a similar facility in an adult hospital under similar circumstances.

    When my father-in-law died of cardiomyopathy, they recuscitated him in East Tennessee and flew him to a hospital in Knoxville. We got the call in OH so it was a completely unplanned and unexpected trip for 600 miles during Chirstmas season where every hotel was packed. Happily, a nurse heard of our plight with daughters, grandkids, etc., all Christmasing in their shitty waiting room (althoght I HAD lined up a dog-hair filled room at a Red Roof Inn for my mostly allergic family), so she told the cancer center, which had a McDonald’s House analog that wasn’t too busy because of the season, and they gave us free roomS, free laundry, free videos, and only asked we kept the place swept up.

    It was a Godsend, let me tell you, so I DO know how those folks felt at McDs. I was dealing with a pantload of crap from an upset wife, her sister (his daughters), grandkids about to lose their Grandpa, my employer wanting to fire me for taking off all the sudden, etc., and it was REALLY, REALLY nice to have ONE burden taken off my shoulders.

    God Bless those that help others in their hour of need.

    And may God deal harshly with those who harass them.

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  4. …my wife’s kin with the 30 year old unresponsive heat stroke suffering son that is probably brain dead don’t have a facilty like this avaialbe at his LA hospital, so they are currently living in their cars, in LA heat, in the parking lot, in one of the riot capitols of the world, since the hospital will only let 1 person in for 15 minutes at a time, and THEN only in the day time.

    …bet THEY’D like a McDonald’s house about now…it doesn’t fix anything, but it makes you a WHOLE lot safer, and they have serious decisions to make very soon that not being able to sleep because of the heat, the gunfire, and the plain fact your car wasn’t designed for that CERTAINLY won’t make it any easier to focus…

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  6. This spokeswoman acted like the riot was an act of God, like a tornado. She is so afraid of offending these godless anti-American vermin. I wish SOMEONE would stand up to these assholes, preferably with gunfire.

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  9. Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH B Woodman
    AUGUST 13, 2020 AT 11:57 AM
    “SNS,
    Damned allergies. Who let the Onion Fairy loose in here?
    My sympathies to you and yours.”

    …thank you and keep the CA folks in your prayers, but my son is in his 21st year now and is an intelligent and strong young man who has repaid us many times over for those sleepless nights monitoring stitches, checking for fever, making sure he’s breathing, etc. by being a thousandfold blessing to us and giving us two decades and counting of joy and happiness, and I thank God every day for blessing us with Him, it was a LOT of surgeries, but it’s all been WORTH it.

    His life puts the lie to abortion, too. When he was unexpectedly born how he was, the doctors immediately told us it COULD have meant much MORE frightening things, like he’d never walk, talk, eat on his own, hear, maybe go blind, could be retarded, etc., NONE of which came true with my letterman son (baseball) who graduated top 10 in his class, WITH his class, college, working, steady GF he’s thinking about marrying…

    …pretty GOOD for someone the doctors seemed to want us to put down like a dog, nicht wahr?

    …I could go into how darkly that could play out with the same scenario in modern “Keep the baby comfortable and then make a decision” Virginia, but that’s all OT and a different subject for another day.

    Suffice to say that he proves that God doesn’t give you more than you can handle as well. He equipped me 15 years in advance for the challenges we’d face when he was born, but that too is a different subject for another day, so I’ll end by saying to God be the glory ALWAYS…

    God Bless,
    SNS

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