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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

I am soooooooo angry!!!!!!!!!!

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This is a long rant...................................................................
November 2003 i lost my grandmother. She was a diabetic and came down with gout (or something like that, it was in her hand) They put her on new meds. The doctors knew, KNEW it would throw off her sugar but insisted that she be on it. Not a week later she had passed away. Her sugar levels dropped one night. She became dilerious, moaning, saying she didn't want to die and then saying please let me go. We called 911 and she was taken to the hospital.
Before my grandmother had regained herself (meaning before she was clear headed) the doctor at emerge had the nerve to ask her if she had a DNR (do not resitate order). My parents were fuming.......how dare they ask a woman who is not clearheaded about that and THEY made it clear that everything was to be done to make her well.
Later that evening, my grandmother had gotten better, her sugar back up. She told us she was fine and since it was late we should go home and get some rest, she would be home tomorrow. We thought she was going to be Ok, she looked fine.
5am that next morning we got a call from the hospital, the new doctor on call wanted to know how much they should work to save her.....My father said everything they needed to do they should do and he and my mom left for the hospital. I and my brothers got there a bit later............
I swear there is NO way they checked her sugar at all overnight. They then moved her to a room from emerge, unhooked her oxygen, left her IV drooped over the TV on the wall, coming across as indifferent and pissed off that we had showed up. I freaked, i mean freaked as she had stopped breathing. They called a code blue and everyone rushed in ONLY AFTER I FREAKED ON THEM.

They moved her to a private room and the new nurses that came on shift did everything to make her and my family comfortable. My grandma was a funny woman, we had our priest come to give last rights and my grandma looked up at her and asked "what are you doing here??? i'm NOT dying". then slipped back into unconsciousness . She passed away at 4pm that day.

I'll NEVER forgive those doctors and nurses for the way they treated her. Old, young it shouldn't have mattered. She was a part of our lives. I see the same disregard for my developmentally
challenged clients.

Now tonight i find out my father is on pills for some supposed disease he has that has never caused him one bit of trouble. The meds can cause liver failure so he has to go for constant bloodwork. I'm absolutely terrified that hes going to pass away on us. And i hate doctors with a passion so strong that i'm making up a living will that states NO doctor will ever touch me. I will have a DNR. I won't be treated like a piece of meat with the doctors making the choice about whether or not i will live. I will make that choice.

Call it a bit drastic, yes it is i'm only 27 and theres always a chance something could happen but..............Sorry i realize this is long but i needed to get it off my chest. I can't stand how alot of doctors think they are gods being able to chose to save or not save a person. I hate even more that for alot of the elderly that choice is not theirs to make.

Red
 
Sorry to hear about all the crap that went down. Sounds like a very bad case of neglect to me. If only we could get all medical staff to care for each patient as if it were their own family member.
Sorry for your loss.
 
Unfortunately, to many health care workers, it's just a job. How many people these days do you hear say they are getting into the medical field because they want to be able to help people? No, most will say they are getting into it because the money is good.

But what do you expect? Society has changed in nearly all aspects. This is the "ME" generation now in the workforce. Not everyone, of course, but enough that it certainly would worry me to be in a hospital at the mercy of a bunch of people just watching the clock adding up their hourly wages. These days if you go into the hospital, you BETTER have someone else there with you who gives a damn about your welfare and not rely on the hospital staff to do it.
 
Thankyou Quentek25.

Webslave you've got it so right. I'm a bit calmer now than i was and i'll admit, not all doctors and other health care professsionals are that uncaring. I work in this field and trust me i can't say i do it for the money. I'm not in a hospital environment (unless one of my individuals gets sick and i'm to staff them there). We've had comparisons done with other organizations like my own and it turns out where i am is one of the lesser paid. I could easily make $20/hr elsewhere but i chose to stay because i enjoy the job, people i support, and other staff. I guess i'm the exception instead of the rule and thats sad.

Granted anything in healthcare isn't easy, the stress levels are really high in all aspects of the field, thats why the turnover in staff is so high. I've done 17 hr shifts so i know that nearing the end of it your tired, irritable and your patience is wearing thin. But that doesn't mean i wouldn't go out of my way to make sure the people i support aren't safe and healthy. And regardless of their age, or developmental maturity i will provide the exact same care. It frustrates me that other people don't do that.

I agree that if your going into the hospital its always best to have someone with you. My ex fiance was with me when i had to have surgery. The doctor came out and was rather nasty cause i was nervous and had questions. Another doctor told me that having migraines was attributed to being a woman and gave me the *get over* it attitude. Its funny, i know a few men that suffer from them, wonder what his explanation would have been then. The migraines i get, when on the left side, resemble the symptoms of a stroke, nothing to take lightly, and a new doctor realized this. So ya not all are bad. But if they experience the problem i think they are more apt to help one out.

I think they need to put themselves into the shoes of the people they are caring for more often. That could be said for any profession though.

Please don't get me wrong here, i wouldn't wish my migraines on anyone, i just wish they were more empathetic about it. As for my grandmother, i'll regret not doing more or staying with her but when it comes to my parents i won't be making the same mistakes.

Red
 
My sympathies are with you also Red and I am very sorry to hear of your unexpected and tragic loss.

I worked in the medical field for many years and have seen the neglect afforded to the elderly on many occassions. One thing I always tried to stress when training new EMT's and Paramedics was that they should treat every patient with the utmost respect. I especially emphasized this regarding geriatric patients by telling them that they should pretend they are treating their own parent or grandparent - I believe it sunk in more times than not.

Another class of people I have seen abused in their level of care was bikers by emergency room workers whether or not they were 1 per center's. Being a ex gun-toting Harley riding biker myself, it would piss me off to no end to hear the resident MD ask if the level one patient was a organ donor even before we could transfer them off our stretcher or before they even accessed the patient. I only heard the organ donation question brought up that quickly when bringing in a obvious biker and not any other level one patients.

Kevin
"Defender of the down-trodden"
 
I was a CNA for 5 years and worked in a few different nursing facilities, the problem you run into in places like that is they hire young people for the most part and they pay so little. Taking care of a hundred geriatrics is a unique challenge to say the least, many of the people just do as little as they can to get by. It is very disheartening to see the condition some are forced to live in.

Chris
 
I did my PSW institutional placement in a nursing home. More times than not i was the second staff. As a student i was never to be left alone or do care by myself but they had me doing everything on my own. Two staff to 30+ people to care for is just plain cruel. And this was in the middle of summer. We had the fire department/EMS show up one day to take a resident to the hospital and they were demanding that the staff get a break before they started to drop.

Now not all places are bad, not all doctors are stuck up but the situation with my grandmother has caused me to be hateful and i know its wrong, but how can i not be? Their disregard for her caused us to loose a member of my family....

Its weird that people would treat the older generations like this cause they will one day be part of the geriatric generation themselves. If the younger generations aren't taught to be respectful of the older ones than how can they expect to have peole treat them with any respect when they get old?!?

It is a dire situation, requiring more funding and education but i doubt that will happen. At least now i'm working for an organization with group homes for developmentally/physically challenged adults, the home i work in is geriatric but we have 3 staff to 7 residents. I believe their quality of life is much better than it would be in a nursing home and thats sad cause there isn't enough openings to place all the people who need care.

Red
 
We sometimes had as little as 4 staff, 2 RN's and 1 med tech to a hundred residents, while not all were bed ridden most required help to ambulate. I burned out on that job after 5 years, it seemed to be a losing battle as whatever good I did was undone by the next shift. It's even more difficult when most families NEVER visited until their Grandma or Grandpa were dying and then it was all you could do to try and please them. (I am not talking about you, just my experience). I did however take care of Brad Pitt's grandmother. She was a sweetheart.


Take care, sorry for your loss.

Chris
 
So sorry to hear of your loss.

I'm not the kind of person who believes in sueing everyone for everything, but if you truly feel that your grandmother's case was mismanaged and things could have been prevented with some simple attention to her needs, you MIGHT want to consider retaining an attorney and filing a malpractice suit...I'm no attorney myself, but I bet one could tell you whether or not you have a case.

In any case, no amount of money will bring your grandmother back, and again, I'm very sorry to hear of your loss.
 
WebSlave said:
Unfortunately, to many health care workers, it's just a job. How many people these days do you hear say they are getting into the medical field because they want to be able to help people? No, most will say they are getting into it because the money is good.

But what do you expect? Society has changed in nearly all aspects. This is the "ME" generation now in the workforce. Not everyone, of course, but enough that it certainly would worry me to be in a hospital at the mercy of a bunch of people just watching the clock adding up their hourly wages. These days if you go into the hospital, you BETTER have someone else there with you who gives a damn about your welfare and not rely on the hospital staff to do it.
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Earlier this year I had an asthma attack/pnuemonia. After the ambulance rushed me into the ER I was given constant treatments (asthma medicines in a mist form) and oxygen. I was eventually moved to the ICU. My memory of being in the ER is sort of vague (it was 1am when we called 911). At nearly 4am I woke up and became scared, mostly because I was unaware of my surroundings, so I pulled the breathing mask. that was pumping the treatment and oxygen, off my face. Soon after the "respitory specialist" came into my room and got really agressive. He told me that if I didn't put the mask back on and lie down and go to sleep, he would call his friends in to tie me and my hands down. I got so scared I lied back down and started shaking. I didn't get any sleep either. The next day I told the ICU nurse about him and what happened, she said that he had that problem with everyone else and was harmless, but he apparently got his kicks by acting like that to hospital patients, especially the ones who couldn't fight back.

Not everyone is fit for the jobs they have, especially in the healthcare field. People like him aren't in this to help people, they are in it for the money.

I've had many problems with doctors as well. I have a joint disease. I've been told many things about what it could possibly be, but there doesn't seem to be a single one it is. Late last year I was reccomended to see an osteoarthritis specialist, so I did. He was the most insulting person I have ever met, and he is a dcotor! Every time I'd go to see him, he would tell me that he was going to try to find out what my problem is, but he loved to remind me of my limitations and that they were unfixable. I know that, I've had at least one surgery on both of my hands and feet, plus many other places to try to relax my fixed joints or to correct a problem, I'm also the one living with this disease too! When your doctor tells you that he will help, but he can't straighten your fingers (they are like a normal hand at rest, some are bent in 90% angles and some are nice and relaxed like a finger curved around a softball), nor can he fix your feet (my instep is, well, falling out. It looks like the arch has collapsed. I can't wear normal shoes, except Birkenstocks, because the instep offers no support and will break/collapse within a week) constantly, what should I have replied back with? I know they can't be made perfect. He acted like he knew how I feel, and what living with all sorts of problems is like. He loved to @$$ume. I've since stopped seeing him, as he offered no help except to give more and more medications so I could "try them out".

Sorry for the length, but I had to rant a bit.
 
My nerologist was like that with my migraines. He said it was just a womans problem and pretty much get over it. When i didn't go for that idea, he put me on so many drugs the side affect were worse than the migraines. It wasn't long before i stopped seeing him. I switched family doctors and the one i have now was really great about it. He put me on meds that worked and took my pain and all the other problems caused by the migraines seriously. (for example i get dizzy, slur my speach, can't walk straight, can't see due to auras, vomit til i pass out plus the pain).

I have chosen to go completely off meds now and i've learnt when i can handle the pain and when its time to get some help. Usually i'm very good at predicting when a storm is coming, its the only trigger i can't avoid.

I think lately whats got me more upset is dentists. I swear they do a half fast job so that in a few months when the filling falls out they will get more money to fix it. I didnt' have a cavity until i had my braces put on. Under the back parts that fit over my molars, the teeth went bad.......not like i can brush under those things.

And the two places i had braces behind the teeth i've had non stop trouble.........I brush, floss and rince at least 3 times a day (scared i'm going to lose them so i make sure they are clean) you'd think i wouldnt' have a cavity in my mouth.......

The medical field has turned from a caring for people industry to soley a making money one. it sickens me.

Red
 
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