My wife in her mid 70’s has been a RN all of her life until she retired last summer.
She worked in a busy FP office as the head RN. One of her skills developed over the decades was quickly to look at a patient, new or old, to evaluate their overall look, walk and verbal skills.
If she spotted something that was new or old that could be a problem, she told the doctors about it. In the words of one of the doctors, she worked with. She was the early warning/monitoring system for the doctors.
This past week, she watched Hill on Fox News trying to defend Obama Care. Besides the rambling on, my wife noticed that Hill barely used her left hand and arm during her rambling.
My wife noted that Hill’s face was swollen and puffy. My wife’s prelim observations were: Hill is an older woman with some potentially serious alcohol and aging problems, and she may be losing some control over her left side with her hand and arm. She is probably prone to falls and tripping. Last but not least, her memory and acute mental skill were slipping away.
Note from contemporary TV fare:
The Vice President in the series “Scandal” (”Sally Langston”) had to have been drawn from life to represent Herself, Madame Benghazi, the Cold & Joyless. While superficially, the politics are quite different, the same ruthless and self-righteous nature are at the forefront, an ambitious and not especially flexible thinker has ridden ideology all the way up to the current slot, and chafing at the limitations, the character is seeking the Presidency on her own. This has led to several bizarre and highly unethical situations, including what any objective observer would call murder of her philandering husband.
Remember, all these characters are being pictured as being vaguely “Republican”, but that is just subtle propaganda. Their activities much more nearly resemble that of liberal Democrats, which shows the bias of the writers on the show, and to some degree, the actors themselves.
Like Carroll O’Connor playing Archie Bunker, an obvious caricature. But that is the picture that many people have of “conservatives”.
Her falling and tripping is probably in direct proportion to the amount of adult beverages she guzzles.
I'm envisioning a bipartisan political get together where alcohol flows freely, attended by Boehner just drinking and crying and Hillary falling and tripping..............what a circus..............the Soviet Union had their boris Yeltsin and we have our Boehner and Clinton...........is America great or what???