{"id":858,"date":"2008-10-05T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=858"},"modified":"2008-10-05T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T19:30:00","slug":"sad-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/sad-case\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sad Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The health-care situation in the U.S. is terrible. But I can&#8217;t stand people who act like health care in other nations is sheer perfection. I&#8217;ve been following the sad story of a U.K. reality-TV personality named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/top-stories\/2008\/09\/13\/jade-goody-s-cancer-has-spread-further-than-expected-115875-20735577\/\">Jade Goody<\/a> who is only 27 and has advanced cervical cancer. She suffered from symptoms for THREE YEARS and went undiagnosed despite multiple emergency visits to the hospital for pain. Three years! I would sue a bitch&#8217;s ass for a three-year-long misdiagnosis even if it was (literally) the last thing I did. This poor chick has already had a hysterectomy and is now facing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-1062834\/Pictured-Jade-Goody-puts-brave-face-leaves-hospital-weeks-cancer-treatment.html\">year of chemo because the cancer is so widespread<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SOA-JttIsUI\/AAAAAAAAEjI\/zj5Wqej8EiQ\/s1600-h\/article-1053387-027EB23900000578-283_468x604.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SOA-JttIsUI\/AAAAAAAAEjI\/zj5Wqej8EiQ\/s320\/article-1053387-027EB23900000578-283_468x604.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251265502122651970\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Poor Jade Goody<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">I hope someone investigates the doctors who ruined this woman&#8217;s life. Oh, and on top of the cancer she has to deal with things <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowmagazine.co.uk\/celebrity-news\/275816\/jade-goody-shocked-and-hurt-by-death-website\/1\/\">like<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/lostinshowbiz\/2008\/oct\/01\/celebrity\">this<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The health-care situation in the U.S. is terrible. But I can&#8217;t stand people who act like health care in other nations is sheer perfection. I&#8217;ve been following the sad story of a U.K. reality-TV personality named Jade Goody who is only 27 and has advanced cervical cancer. She suffered from symptoms for THREE YEARS and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/sad-case\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[79,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-health","category-in-the-news","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}