its a beautiful country and at present is green enough.
but under the surface there is a grimness not many have a chance to articulate and many are too bogged down in dreary toil to even try to make sense of it, let alone start a blog page cos of your personal sense of outrage.
i am tired my friends.
i am tired of ireland.
the doctors....the HSE...and the crass way we do things here.
i have good reason.
but maybe pasting up detail found in the local newspapers these words do sum it up and give me reason to be afraid:
In his letter to Mr Tony O’Brien on 8 July 2015, seen by MI, Mr Quinn referred to a series of letters he sent to the HSE National Director of Social Care Mr Pat Healy over the previous year about concerns relating to the quality and safety of residential services for people with a disability in facilities run by the Executive.
Mr Quinn also highlighted concerns regarding the timeliness and effective implementation of the HSE’s national safeguarding policy published in December 2014.
“Despite assurances identified by Pat Healy at that time, I fundamentally believe that the risks identified and the circumstances within which residential care for a significant number of adults and children with a disability remains significantly compromised,” wrote Mr Quinn.
He stated that HIQA had taken the unprecedented step of seeking emergency cancellation of Our Lady’s Service provided by St Patrick’s (Kilkenny) Ltd and also had to issue further notices of proposals to refuse or cancel the registration of a range of services.
Mr Quinn pointed out that while a number of these services exist on a campus or congregated setting and have significant challenges in respect of their physical premises, the main issues of concern relate to “regressive models of service provision, negative culture and failure to recognise and protect vulnerable service users”.
He also stated that the notices then recently sent out had the potential to affect 318 adults and children with disabilities.
Mr Quinn also wrote to Department of Health Secretary General Mr Jim Breslin on 10 July 2015 regarding HIQA’s growing concerns about the continued lack of assurance that the HSE, as both the provider and funder of services, could provide in respect of quality and safety issues with the disability sector.
There have been a number of high-profile controversies recently involving the treatment of patients in care homes, including Áras Attracta in Swinford, Co Mayo, and Ard Dara in Cork.
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there is so much lying, deceit, abuse of power, injustice, inequality, lack of transparency, no wriggle room to find the justice you know you deserve.
all our services have been parred down out of existence, including the Human Rights commission, which seems to have found itself lost with lack of funding like everything, if you have a country in chaos, they say it gives rules the change to go mad, i mean 'psychopathic mad' in ruling.
if you get a person down far enough they wont wimper again.
well i will and intend to.
but it would be nice to think one day i will have my life back, this isnt living.
imagary are the order of the day i think,
first demo of my personal pain and grief.
then my gifts
then my wishes.
does that sound really good?
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| Addi lay in bed and just slept. i could hardly move a muscle. i had a bed companion at least! caption |
it is.
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| after a very successful painting exhibition i seemed to have become very unwell, i had no temperature control and had long passed the menopause. i was shattered all the time |
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| its horrible to know you have been left in a small room with a dog alone. told to keep taking the 'anti-depressants' but i knew i was very sick, i soon was to act. |
here goes.
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| my pain was so bad.... |
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| i couldnt have done without my Ana |
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| i didnt enjoy thinking much. How can you go from a successful painter with studio to not being able to get out of bed? and how can you be left? well i am still thinking, the same thoughts |
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| i was given a mobility scooter which revolutionised my life really, i was able to get out again. but not after i had thought myself to walk because i had to do that too. i had been to UK and found i had some problems with sjogrens, lupus and muscles and i was back. here i am at the Hospice in the 'Rose Garden' on Respite, they give you lacatives here but no zip wires! |
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some brilliant health service OT persuaded me to move, but alas, she wasnt watching where the council put me...yep...i was shot at...and more... I had to get away and i moved out of my county where i had lived all my life rarely leaving it. but now i was away from all i had known and met another brilliant health service OT who decided i had to give my mobility scooter back! i kid you not! so from Hospice Rose Gardens to Bang gone! |
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| I hope Nijmegen experts alike will look at the shoes a person with considerable defects is supposed to wear, do you see holes in the soles, well yes they saw me through a snow filled winter and still - no shoes! so we are now 2006-2015 |
Yes i do consider i have gifts, so here i share....
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| my brushes snapped by twin when i was asleep |
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| i was beginning to become quite accomplished at an art form i had not done since art college days, then whack i was 'outta it' |
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| I received an Arts Council Award to do photography and i loved that too...rarely do much now as too busy trying to get healthcare. |
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| 'You understand, don't you?' i called this image and entered it for an Irish Times Competition, i got runner up! not bad! |
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| you have to admit that they are worth photographing? |
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| a really horrendous thing to see - my twin's dog coming up the garden with a knife! i made a composite. so i guess it sparked an image...with full meaning! i do have wishes..a bucket list or wish list or aspirational thoughts. to go home TO GO HOME AND TO GET THE HSE OUT OF MY HAIR.
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| LOOKING DOWN TOWARDS DUN LAOGHAIRE AND THE EAST COAST |
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| THE GREEN LANE WITH MY ANA STANDING 'ARE YOU COMING?' SHE WONDERS |
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| BULLOCK HARBOUR NOT CHANGED IN GENERATIONS, STILL SELLING CRABS FROM SMALL FISHERS |
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SANDYCOVE HARBOUR, VERY CLOSE TO WHERE ONE OF OUR FAMOUS WRITERS LIVED.
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| YOU HAVE TO END WITH A SMILE - my great niece who is all grown up now well still teeny but not this teeny anymore! |
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