Welcome to a new themed day of the week. This is Tuesday Top of Mind.
Tuesday replaces Monday Musing for reasons discussed in yesterday’s post.
My mind is a busy-busy place these days. No, seriously, it is like Grand Central Station up in there.
I meant to write this first thing this morning, as an effort to getting out posts in a more timely fashion. But, alas, I worked until 0530 again. This is the breaks of the call job.
Sometimes there are patients who need care in the middle of the night.
Hence the call job.
Zero complaints here.
Hey, even Wake Me Up Dot left me alone to sleep in relative peace until noon. After I woke up to put clothes in the wash and fed the cats at 0830.
The point is my mind has many, many things that are top of mind.
There is the continuing war on women’s bodily autonomy. Idaho is certainly feeling the effects of their war on women and bodily autonomy couched in being anti-abortion.
There is the continuing war in Ukraine and the many people impacted there for this WTAF war on one nation’s autonomy and cultural identity.
There is the continuing war on books and the people who want to have control over ALL the reading material.
There is the continuing war on trans individuals, again by people who want to have control over ALL the people.
There is the continuing war on LGBTQ+ individuals for the same reason.
There is the war on information that is rife in this country, brought on and egged on by the 24 hour news cycle.
There is the Kansas newspaper that was raided by a small-town sheriff with what seems to be a grudge and a judge that was not the town’s judge who rubberstamped the warrant. This is a small-town newspaper that was hard-hitting and so vital to the community in a time when small-town newspapers are being bought out by conglomerates. The publisher of the newspaper died the next day. No wonder proper journalists, not just people who flap their mouth and say what their sycophants want to hear, are in danger.
There is the war on nurse’s rights to practice without a medical doctor in places where the medical doctors are hard to find. This does nothing about the conversation that not all Drs have the same education. There are several DO (doctors of osteopathy, another path to being a Dr) who are not part of this conversation, taking care of patients and quietly doing surgery in the background.
There is the continued fear of women mostly who are sick of being marginalized and told our only worth is the contents of our uterus and what we can do for you.
There is a theme here, you get it, right?
However, I will not be silent on these matters because they are important to bring to the surface and have a serious discussion about. One that does not devolve into the keyboard “warriors” who skulk in the shadows with their keyboards typing things they would never say to my face.
What I was going to write about today before this post got co-opted by the insanity that is modern life was the nurse who killed 8 babies in a neonatal ward in the UK, and seriously harmed 8 more where only a few will have normal lives. Yeah, she was just sentenced to life in prison, no possibility of parole.
She didn’t even come to the court in the impact statement portion of the proceedings. This is where the victims can lay out the impact on their lives from the killings and poisonings. Really, their parents because some of these children are non-verbal because of what has been done to them and the survivors are less than 10 years old. No. She stayed in her cell while the statements were read aloud by lawyers or the judge. In doing this, she denied them what little closure they could have had.
Yeah.
There is a lot top of mind these days.
And that isn’t even including the university stuff.
Tuesday Top of Mind will continue with more cohesive posts next week. Probably on one of the above “wars”. Maybe not.
I’ll see what is top of mind then.
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