A FUN DINNER WITH FRIENDS

This is the kind of health care we all deserve but cannot afford. If you’re lucky enough to have health insurance, your medical experiences are too often like the one described in the article below.

The New York Review of Books
Volume 56, Number 17 · November 5, 2009

Diagnosis: What Doctors Are Missing
by Jerome E. Groopman

… A close friend in New York City told me how his wife with metastatic ovarian cancer had spent six days in the hospital without a single doctor engaging her in a genuine conversation. Yes, she had undergone blood tests and been sent for CT scans. But no one attending to her had sat down in a chair at her bedside and conversed at eye level, asking questions and probing her thoughts and feelings about what was being done to combat her cancer and how much more treatment she was willing to undergo. The doctors had hardly touched her, only briefly placing their hands on her swollen abdomen to gauge its tension. The interactions with the clinical staff were remote, impersonal, and essentially mediated through machines. …

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23310

Well, hey! Welcome back.
Is Richard okay?

Dear Ms. Fonda,

Firstly, congrats on finding love again. You just glow inside and out, especially the eyes. They never lie.

Thought you and your man would really appreciate this site that I’ve been introduced to, http://www.FromDarylsHouse.com It’s Daryl Oats bringing us new/old talent, performing with various artists; my favourite is him singing with Smokey Robinson. Richard being in the music biz, I’m sure he’ll enjoy this.

All the best,
Shirley White

I’ve always heard wonderful things about the Mayo Clinic, and it was nice to hear your opinion about this special place. So good to hear that there are several of these clinics around the country!! It’s interesting to hear how there is a “team” leader who summarizes the findings at the end. I wish more hospitals were like this!

P.S. Thank you for telling us about Richard getting a full physical. That might encourage others…men and women…who read your blog to get get one too!!!

I was pleased to see a picture of Tulea! I’ve missed seeing her! I wonder how she copes traveling with you?

I saw a program about you called “Private Screenings” with Robert Osborne on TCM last week! It was very good! You seemed very relaxed talking with Robert. Your comments about some of your movies were interesting and insightful about you and some of the movies you’ve made!!

Jane,
Thank you so much for your kind words and beautiful friendship to my family and me! You are truly one of the most remarkable people I have ever known, with depth and breadth of character and an extraordinary diversity of wisdom and perspective. Your genuine caring for others and desire to understand is an example for us all. I value you and Richard as gifts in our lives.
Brad

For my avatar pretend a couple of beautiful shelter cats are staring back at you–one 20-lb
orange and white one named Geoffrey, and the other, a solid gray mischievous 10-lb male named
Smoky. Both well fed and loved. If you insist it be me in the avatar, then you will see a 60-yr-old
female wearing glasses, brown hair with a gray streak running from middle of head to right ear.
I’ve been happily single for 33 years, college educated, raised 3 sons singlehandedly, and am an
ultra-liberal Democrat. Oh yes, and in 4.5 yrs I
will retire from my job as a ramp clerk at the PO.

All I wanted to say today is thank you for the information on the Mayo Clinic. Both of my parents
are still living, Mom is 79, and Dad, 85, and they
reside in Haines City, Florida, not too far from
Jacksonville. Dec 16 they will celebrate 61 years
of wedded bliss. Both show no signs of dementia,
and Dad still gets dressed up in his suit and tie
and drives to Mass every Sunday. Mom says she has
some heart problems, so I’m going to try to get her to check out the JAX Mayo Clinic.

Thanks again for your time. You are one busy lady.

Yvonne S. Young

As always Jane, you’re an inspiration.

Cheers! 🙂

The sky will light up overnight as Earth passes through debris left by Halley’s Comet

Stay well And be Happy

Rom

Thank you, as always, for an interesting blog. It is good to know that there are indeed pockets of healthcare that provide a high quality service ,as well as a holistic and/or integrative approach to healthcare.

I think that for most people, this is not what is experienced from the healthcare system overall.

My view, though, is one from the perspective of living in South Africa, where the key challenge remains the effective provision of basic healthcare to all people, a somewhat different position from that experienced in more affluent and developed countries (or so it seems). I guess it remains a question of perspective.

Look forward to more interesting reading!

My first post, after reading your blog for several months with interest, especially in your travels, and oh yes – congratulations on finding love again – you definitely glow….

Just wanted to share with you that, owing to an old injury which left me with a stiff ankle as I travelled the world and engaged in skiing and many other wonderful sports, I had my left hip replaced at 53, both knees together at 54 (very tough), and 12 weeks ago my right hip, at 59. Am hoping to get back on my horse and out on the trails again very soon.

Keep on trucking…

Jane

Yo Jane, one of your bloggers said that it was pr obably your influence that made Richard go and have a check up. Women do often do this, as men don’t like doing it, however, while women are eager at pushing men to do this, they sometimes end up neglecting themselves in the process. We all have to look after ourselves more! Please make a movie soon…we miss you on the big screen!

Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the
‘100 Women of the Century.’

BY BARBRA WALTERS

Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms.
Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed
during Vietnam The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot’s name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat.

In 1968, the former Commandant of the USAF Survival School was a POW in Ho Lo Prison
the ‘ Hanoi Hilton.’ Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ’s, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American ‘Peace Activist’ the ‘lenient and humane
treatment’ he’d received.

He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and was dragged away. During the subsequent beating, he fell forward on to the camp Commandant ‘s feet, which sent that officer berserk. In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying career) from the Commandant’s frenzied application of a wooden baton..

From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4E’s). He spent 6 years in the
‘Hanoi Hilton’,,, the first three of which his family only knew he was ‘missing in action’.
His wife lived on faith that he was still alive His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and
clothed routine in preparation for a ‘peace delegation’ visit. Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ’s, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American
‘Peace Activist’ the ‘lenient and humane treatment’ he’d received.

He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and was dragged away. During the subsequent beating, he fell forward on to the camp Commandant ‘s feet, which sent that officer berserk.

In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his
flying career) from the Commandant’s frenzied application of a wooden baton..

From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4E’s). He spent 6 years in the
‘Hanoi Hilton’,,, the first three of which his family only knew he was ‘missing in action’.
His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and
clothed routine in preparation for a ‘peace delegation’ visit.

I was a civilian economic development advisor in Vietnam , and was captured by the North
Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held prisoner for over 5 years.

I spent 27 months in solitary confinement; one year in a cage in Cambodia ; and one year
in a ‘black box’ in Hanoi. My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Ban me Thuot, South Vietnam , whom I buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border. At one time, I weighed only about 90 lbs. (My normal weight is 170 lbs) We were Jane Fonda’s ‘war criminals.’

When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi , I was asked by the camp communist political officer if I would
be willing to meet with her..

I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received… and how
different it was from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as
‘humane and lenient.’ Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched with a large steel weights placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane. I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda soon after I was released. I asked her
if she would be willing to debate me on TV. She never did answer me.

These first-hand experiences do not exemplify someone who should be honored as part
of ‘100 Years of Great Women.’ Lest we forget…’ 100 Years of Great Women’
should never include a traitor whose hands are covered with the blood of so many patriots.

RONALD D. SAMPSON, CMSgt,
USAF 716 Maintenance Squadron, Chief of Maintenance

You speak about Brad Jr.,”a Marine”,of his loyalty and devotion to his men and country.I was just wondering if you had a hard time talking to Brad Jr. knowing that you caused the death of three U.S. service members when you visited them in the POW camps in Vietnam. These men thought that they could count on you to tell their families that they were still alive but instead you turned over their information to their captures, which in turn beat them to death. I wonder if you ever told that story to Brad Jr? Do you tell him that he’s part of a group that you consider to be “war criminals”. He puts his life on the line just like those POW’s did. Would you do the same to him? I wonder why this is not part of your bio?