Lines crossed is a warning”
“Don’t cross that line, bro.”
But who listens to that?
It’s just a line, isn’t it?
This is called ‘learning from experience.’
It’s been clear for a while now that baby boomers, the boomer generation, has had a problem with lines, facts, and figures.
As a ‘middle boomer’ I showed up after the fire died. after all the fun of electric kook-aid acid tests, turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
Maybe the early boomers didn’t think to check on the doctor’s credentials?
When an old PhD calls on eighteen year olds to follow them, something might be up?
Ken Kesey was thirty in 1965 and seemed to carry a lot of trust from those who said don’t trust anyone over thirty.
He had ten years on the oldest boomers and knew how to party.
Do old people get their lines crossed when they suck up to youth?
The Problem With Getting Lines Crossed
After spending plenty of time on the side of stupid young people, I refrain from saying the same thing.
Why?
Because of the time it takes from being a stupid young person to being a stupid old person.
Young people, say millennials, get it.
One day it’s wine, women, and song; it’s working out, drinking beer, and staying up late; it’s getting jobs to support a lifestyle.
Like a movie where a character opens one door in the fun times to find themselves thrown ten years in the future, they get it.
A job means health insurance, and no one is getting any younger.
Late nights at the bar start showing up on their face, and not in a good way.
They’ve forgotten the songs to make room for worry.
But, if they keep rolling along at forty like they did at twenty, or thirty?
They’ll have a different set of friends.
Little Joe has one nostril because cocaine burned out his nasal septum.
Billy wears an ankle bracelet.
Jennifer has four kids from four different guys including Little Joe and Billy.
And they all need the sort of help they’re not getting on their own.
Project Nurture, Ride To Care
If you’re out there living the good life, running around with your rag top down, wanting to do right, but not right now?
Keep up the good work.
But, there are people engaged in saving lives, giving lives, making things better for others. (Hey Kelly)
Those people see the value in a program like Project Nuture because they’ve seen results.
Where a segment of leaders see waste on fraud, there’s more to see than what’s put before them.
Project Nurture provides prenatal care and harm reduction-focused substance use treatment strategies and support for individuals at any stage of pregnancy.
Our hope is to engage pregnant people in services as early in their pregnancy as possible. Services extend past pregnancy to include caring for parents and their infants for up to a year postpartum.
Our goals are centered around the people we serve, with our primary focus on providing holistic, comprehensive wrap-around care, instilling hope and supporting individuals in achieving their personal goals.
They see value in Ride To Care.
When people talk about Medicaid in Oregon, you may hear them say a lot of different names or letters like we mentioned above. That’s because there are many organizations involved in making sure you get the care you deserve.
A new mom on meth delivers a baby in withdrawal.
The people in the delivery room know the drill, the attitude, and how to help.
Musty old men have a clue? Not so much.
There are lines crossed between leaders and maternity nurses where one group see the consequences first hand, and the second work to deny a problem.
“They should have made better choices,” is a common refrain.
Who are they talking to, the newborn baby? Because momma just wants another hit.
What is a better choice?
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