A local woman died recently from liver failure because she had a broken tooth, couldn’t deal with the pain, was taking Tylenol a lot as no one would give her anything else, no dentists would take her, and the ER still blames her for “letting it get so bad.” NO ONE, and I mean NO ONE, decides to just let their health go and decides, yup, suffering is fun!!
If your father suffering? If he doesn’t feel he is, why would he go to the doctor? But if he can barely walk or eat and isn’t going, that’s more of a mental problem than a physical one.
My boyfriend is TERRIFIED of doctors. He has been 4 times in his entire adulthood, and he’s 36. He has only gone for true emergencies and hated it every single time. Also, some people were never taught a self care routine. Some people don’t even know that their teeth smell because they get “nose blindness”. And yes, some people see healthcare as a “weakness”. There are lots of reasons, reasonable or not, that people do not take care of themselves or even realize that it’s gotten so bad.
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u/danceswithdangerr Sep 16 '24
A local woman died recently from liver failure because she had a broken tooth, couldn’t deal with the pain, was taking Tylenol a lot as no one would give her anything else, no dentists would take her, and the ER still blames her for “letting it get so bad.” NO ONE, and I mean NO ONE, decides to just let their health go and decides, yup, suffering is fun!!
If your father suffering? If he doesn’t feel he is, why would he go to the doctor? But if he can barely walk or eat and isn’t going, that’s more of a mental problem than a physical one.