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1   Ceffer   2017 Oct 6, 9:42am  

"There was no helping anyone at the moment, two days before the first of the month, as Donna Jean, Bobby and his wife, Linda, watched people roar up and down the hollow on four-wheelers and smoked every home-rolled cigarette to the filter."

Yeah, I notice that. No matter how much the poor souls complain about not enough money, they ALWAYS have money for cigarettes/tobacco.

Also, no real examination about the 30 plus years of life choices before their dire straits.
2   RWSGFY   2017 Oct 6, 11:32am  

"She lit a home-rolled cigarette and, getting to work with a mattock, tried to ignore the weather. She had lately been telling herself that she had to stop taking these risks. They were more than an hour from the nearest hospital, and what if she had another heart attack?"

WTF? Tobacco smoke, even second-hand, is well-known trigger for exactly that - heart attacks. So she's worried about another heart attack away from the hospital while smoking a fucking cigarette?
4   cochabamba   2018 Apr 24, 6:13pm  

I have a suspicion that one major underreported factor behind many of these surging disability claims (and opioid addictions) among lower and lower-middle class people is medical malpractice and unnecessary surgeries. There is no freaking way that a 44 year old should be having heart bypass surgery. That surgery has been going the way of the dodo bird ever since it was shown that it doesn't lengthen your life but can often either kill you or leave you demented. But there are lots of cardiac surgeons who still need income after their gravy train got swiped away...

>“My doctor gets on me all the time getting out here and doing stuff like this,” said Donna Jean Dempsey, 51, who had quintuple bypass surgery in 2011
5   MisdemeanorRebel   2018 Apr 24, 6:30pm  

Dude, my dad had a quad bypass at around 50 and lived to be 78 years old, only other incident was one congestive heart failure at 75. Other than some cheap, generic blood pressure meds for about 3 decades after, he was A-OK. Sharp as a tack to the last minute, except for a few weeks in the immediate aftermath of his congestive heart failure.

He got almost 3 decades and put in almost a decade of work after his original heart attack and bypass surgery.
6   cochabamba   2018 Apr 24, 6:37pm  

>Dude, my dad had a quad bypass at around 50 and lived to be 78 years old....He got almost 3 decades...

Was the heart bypass done as an emergency/urgent procedure? These days they aren't nearly as common following heart attack. Lots of other things they can do. I'm betting this woman was talked into it for chest pain.

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