Crayola Clouds, Crayola Dreams

Every discussion with a conservative about Canadian healthcare begins with - but they have to wait weeks to see….

Add me to the list of people who used to believe this… until I actually started talking to people in other countries. I’ll still never not be impressed by my ex making a doctor’s appointment online (at like 4pm) and being seen the next day… yet, we’re told they have to wait for weeks for an appointment. That’s a big lie. I can’t get an appointment the next day in America. Can’t think of a time I ever have, tbh. Maybe two or three days later, but never the next day.

Yeah I mean honestly as a chronically ill Canadian, I think I would simply be dead by now if I didn’t live in Canada. My mother was disabled, and we grew up very poor, but I knew if I got sick I would see a doctor. The only time we have to wait weeks is when we have a non emergency issue that needs to been seen by a specialist as there simply aren’t enough doctors with specialization and those with immediate life threatening issues take priority! And I’m okay with that! I’m okay waiting 2 weeks for my heart ultrasound if it means the doctor is saving someone’s life!

Waiting two weeks for a specialist may sound bad, but here in the United States, I have had to wait two months for an appointment with a specialist, so Canada would still be a huge improvement even without cost as a factor.

Just learned that a Japanese term for seahorse is Tatsu no Otoshigo and it literally means “dragon’s illegitimate child”