Older and Better with Shelly

I thought by the time women started designing fashions for other women the cruelty would be gone. When they first came out I realized pantyhose had to be designed by a man. I was so thrilled when people stopped wearing those disgusting things. I never could get a pair of pantyhose to fit my long legs. If they were long enough they were baggy. If you were lucky enough to get a pair that actually fit they would get a run the first time you would wear them. I would rather freeze to death in a pair of heels then wear those things. Enough said about that. I won’t talk about bygone days. Remember when those poor women had to wear the lace up girdles? In the movies they show their servants pulling them so tight the woman would lose about 4 inches or more in their waist. Studies show that those women suffered from lots of internal issues later in life. I had worn little panty girdles back in the day to hold my then thin tummy in. That seemed to work well. Then...

Have you noticed how much the medical field has changed in the last 50 years? I know all the surgical techniques and cancer treatments have improved, but the quality of our care? Not so much. Do you know a doctor that makes house calls? When my kids were little we only had one car. My husband took our car out of town on a business trip and one of our kids got sick.   Our pediatrician said “no problem I’ll just swing by on my way home from work”. Do you know a pediatrician today that’s going to swing by on his way home from work to see you? Even in an emergency, care isn’t what it once was. You’re lucky if you can get a doctor to see you at all. And that’s after you call and punch 1000 buttons. You may be dead before you get a live person. Like having your calls screened, now every doctor has to run you through a process before you get an office visit. You damn well better have a serious illness for the doctor to see you the same day you call. O...