The xray tech I just saw tried to pull the Benghazi Bullshit on me!

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26. Sadly, I also have a story....

In spring of 1988 my 17-year old son got an infection in the aortic valve of his heart. He needed a replacement, and fast. His valve was "delaminating" and pieces were getting stuck in other parts of his body and causing other infections. He suffered a mild stroke.

Because of his young age, neither a mechanical nor swine valve was recommended. Only a human cadaver transplant was considered appropriate. Only two or three surgeons in the country were doing such procedures. One was the University of Alabama Hospital in Birmingham. They sent their jet ambulance to retrieve my son fast-tracked him to the cardiac OR. Impressive.

Minutes before he was to be taken into surgery a tech arrived to shave his entire body. While doing so, he steered the conversation to politics. He played his cards close to the vest until I told him I had voted for Jessie Jackson in the Wisconsin primaries particularly due to his positions on healthcare.

He never took his eyes of his work, but his words are still clear to me today: "If that n****r gets elected, we'll kill him."

He collected his gear and exited the room, now chilled by silence. My son, his mother and I could not believe what we had heard.

After my son left that institution I filed a complaint, writing a detailed account and sending it to the hospital CEO and Board of Director members, as well as Guy Hunt, Governor of Alabama. I heard nothing back from any of them.


I'm probably still on a "shoot on sight" list down there somewhere.