Premature babies

The news this morning picked up a story about a woman who had very premature twins. Anyway, they were given very intense treatment, drugs and nursing over a period of weeks and survived to become more or less healthy individuals.

So you’d figure a good news kind of story, along the lines of “Thank you everyone for spending about £10K a day on my kids (source: my former g/f, a hospital manager), I may never pay the £300K or so in tax, their treatment cost, but thank you from the bottom of my heart for my children’s lives, I owe you a financial, moral and emotional debt”

Not a bit of it. This slack jawed yokel was moaning about the fact that she had to travel about 100 miles to get the best possible care, and whilst she was given free accommodation to be near the kid, she had to make other child care arrangements for her other kids. (I’m thinking “what about the father?” but get serious I suppose).

I was seriously looking for my gun. I’m thinking “Miserable ungrateful bitch, you get free treatment and you are moaning ‘cos you have to drive a couple of hours to get there? Come on, there are many, many, many people in the world, including yanks who would love the “free” health care your kids got for nothing, and you have the audacity to bleat about it? Okay, I’ll refund your travel costs and you refund the healthcare costs, okay ?