Comments by "christine paris" (@christineparis5607) on "The \"Red Summer\" of 1919" video.
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@constipatedinsincity4424
Please don't think I was trying to minimize anything in any way, your comment made me cry. The terrible, senseless tragedy inflicted on so many is beyond imagination. I will never understand how anyone could have any excuse for such evil. I'm so sorry if I came off as unfeeling, I don't express myself well sometimes. Your post made me think about a story I heard from my mother about my great uncles in Texas in the late 1800s. They used to ride into Mexico and pick fights, drink, cause problems, "for fun". They supposedly burned down a jail with someone inside. I'm very ashamed of that history. I want to face it, make sure it's something that will never be repeated by my descendants, because forgetting history can mean repetition.
Maybe I'm not "responsible " for their actions, but I firmly believe I am responsible for mine, and acknowledging the importance of what they did that shattered generations afterward is extremely important! I feel responsible for doing what it takes to help NOW. It may be too late for those gone, but being sorry IS important NOW. I think It's everything for those who have a legacy of suffering and fear and abuse. It can be one first step in a healing direction. I say, now, with true remorse, that I am bitterly sorry that they were so cruel and vicious. Because I can imagine how a history of loss in my family line would feel, how it would affect so many down the years, how angry I would be, just knowing it. I AM sorry. It IS my responsibility to promise that it will never happen again, that others see me as a person who does not label others, or see the color of their skin. My race is the HUMAN race. That's where I journey, now, forever.
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@constipatedinsincity4424
You weren't rambling at all! I live in Texas. I've done hospice work, but in this case, my dog is my patient. She has cancer and I stay with her most of the time now. She is really my husbands dog, a 15 year old pitbull he rescued a long time ago. We rescued 4 beautiful, huge, abused mutts after I survived cancer surgery. It was kind of a huge commitment since we had never had a dog, but i loved them SO much!! She is the last of the original 4 musketeers. The rest died of old age related illness.
A year or so ago, a homeless lady begged me to take her dog, who had been injured by a car.
So, if course I took her. She had been hit by a car and had to have surgery (the "free" dog that wiped out our savings in one day!) but having her gave me hope when everyone started to die. I've NEVER felt grief like it. I know it is not the same as losing a child, but I never had kids, the mutts were my substitute children for what the cancer had taken away. Anyway, Ursa, the free dog, turned out to be an incredible empath. She knows instantly when she meets someone if they are injured or sad, and puts her head against them, blinks her giant, Bette Davis eyes and exudes sympathy. She struggles to get to anyone in a wheelchair, crutches, a cane. She senses people who have autism, downs syndrome, etc. There is a rehab facility next to the lake we walk at, and recovering addicts pet her, hold her, cry on her. She is completely sweet and wants to be with them to help. I have volunteered at hospitals since I was a teenager, and here we have 4 military bases, so there is a huge medical complex and veterans come from all over the world to get treatment. There is a group called Wounded Paw, where they save shelter/pound dogs that are going to be destroyed, and train them to aide veterans. It's amazingly successful. I don't work for it, I just think everyone should look them up on Google, they're changing lives every day for the better!
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@nurse2long
Everyone has very different opinions about this issue due to their family history, personal beliefs and ideals, and what they have absorbed in their lifetime. I have seen people fighting over this a thousand times, and it always denigrates into bitter hate filled rhetoric. Please believe what you wish, everyone. Please do not fill this column with anger. You will not convince anyone of any side, and it is pointless. Unless we lived in that time, were raised a certain way, had a certain skin color, religious background, financial status or any other variables, we cannot know exactly how different people came to different conclusions. I know all the arguments on each side, all the discrepancies, all the qoutes and speeches and paper trails. It will ALWAYS be hotly debated. Just accept it, and work towards listening and understanding, not giving in, not changing your mind, just look at every side, even if you don't believe it. You don't have to. Just look at it and try to understand.
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@johnbondza
Thank you for your kind reply!
I believe most people just want to live in peace, follow their customs, harm no one and think what they want. Most people are just trying to get through the day! I've never lived anywhere but the USA, and I grew up and live now in very culturally diverse neighborhoods. I grew up in mostly Asian areas around San Francisco, and live now in mostly Mexican communities in the Southwest. I love both! I like diversity and sharing ideas and customs. I rarely meet awful people. Almost never. I refuse to let a few angry people ruin life. My neighbors are my family! We are always there for each other, help each other and share. We are not a color or a label. I am human, and that's it. When I meet people, that's what I see, human. If they are crazy or mean, I protect myself or get away, but don't tag others with their problems. We are all responsible for our own actions. That's why I refuse to acknowledge labels like "liberal", "conservative", "left", "right". That ridiculous. We are all too complex to be stamped with some made up designation. These are just my opinions. If someone feels differently, that's ok too. 🙂
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@Amateur0Visionary
She is hanging on. I bought her from a street addict who was unable to care for her after she was struck by a car. We rushed her to the vet, they saved her life and had to treat her for infections from cuts and scrapes and injured legs. She pulled through and I brought her home. She pulled ME through when my 18 year old and 15 year old dogs died of old age two years later. If it hadn't been for her, I don't think I could have made it through the grief of losing them, since they were given to me by my husband after I survived cancer (talk about the circle of life!).
I was training her to be a hospital therapy dog, since she has a tremendous affinity for people. I know from experience that you can't save everyone, but I survived a near death experience when I went into shock and tanked after surgery, so I'm a fighter. I know a lot of survival comes from our will and emotional state. There is an incredible book, called "deep survival: who lives and who dies, and why". It is really a guys book, but I found it impossible to put down! From the first chapter where he describes how naval pilots train and learn to land their jets on aircraft carriers at night, "blind", to people who are trapped in glaciers, etc. It gives you the best chance of learning how to react to save your life, from every point of view, scientific, medical, personal. Why did a 15 year old survive 11 days in the Amazon after a plane crash? Why did a navy seal drown on a routine water rafting trip? Everyone should read it. Look it up on Amazon.
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@johnslaughter7110
Hi! Our aussie is doing better, she pulled through, so I'm not going demented (right now!). We feed everyone ID Stew in low fat once a day, and Royal Canin gastrointestinal low fat dry food, both of which we get from the vet. Its hugely expensive, unfortunately, but when we first rescued 3 dogs off the street, they all had horrible problems. One was very underweight and would barely eat, the others had hideous diarrhea and gas. We also put them on one xantek and one benadryl twice a day along with the other meds, and kept them on that forever. I found that a LOT of dogs have allergies, just like people, and benadryl is cheap and effective for helping with itchy skin, etc. I have told hundreds of people about it whose dogs had hotspots, etc., it can sometimes be a miracle. One of our dogs was allergic to grass!!
The vet food we justified because they seemed to all thrive on it, and we had already gone through 20 different kinds of brands and someone always had a problem. They never did on the ID food.
It also produces a lot less waste! They don't have gas or poo so much. Xantek, cheap from any store, helped them so much too, we also kept them from exercising at all for 45 minutes after they ate, since we had a great dane/pitbull mix (who was gigantic) and Danes are very prone to bloat. We just found it easier to keep everyone on the same schedule. When we got another dog, it also has some horrible bloody, gastritis which seemed to take forever to clear up. Because I am a writer I "work" from home, so I could be around to care for a pack of special needs dogs. I have a weakness for dogs that are too big, too crazy, too unwanted.
People think dogs on the street can eat anything and survive, but they don't. They die, usually, only living a very short time. A single raisin can cause irreversible kidney failure in a fifty pound dog! Seriously. Fatty steaks can cause pancreatitis, onions, avocados, nuts, butter, etc. are all deadly, even if they have eaten something of it in tha past and been ok, damage is done. I keep a list a mile long in the kitchen of foods dogs should not eat, because we spent so long treating severe stomach problems in every dog we rescued! Our great dane only lived 8 yrs. He had epilepsy, and they don't live long because of their size. Our pitbull, Lucy, has mass cell carcinoma on her leg and is 15, so she only has a few months, but she gets laser treatments at the vet, and pain meds. You know how it is, you want to do anything! We never let them suffer, when life is no longer a joy to them, we end their suffering, and ours begins...
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@johnslaughter7110
Sorry to write a book, but I really wanted to tell you there is something I also read about called SOMA PET. Have not got it yet, but talked to some people online who swear by it for giving dogs a longer, more active life. We also give our dogs KOI brand CBD oil once a day. It helps amazingly with dogs who are nervous and/or have stomach complaints. You just spray it on their food and they seem to not taste it at all. I have one whole area in the pantry that is like a walk vet center, I keep all the meds bowls food and supplements on big lazy Susan's and use shot glasses to line up the meds, etc. for each dog, and run their bowls through the dishwasher every day to eliminate bacteria. I know it's insane, but we could not have kids and I love dogs so....
We found all the preventive measures kept the giant vet bills down. Your rottweiler dogs are large, so 10 years is long lived for them. I know that the grief for you losing them is terrible. My neighbor, Joe, is 75, and when he lost his beloved Sheba (a dog he rescued that had mange and was going to be euthanized, whom he cured and who lived 13 years), I was seriously afraid he would die of the pain. He has 2 other wonderful dogs, but there is always that dog whose death breaks you completely.
After I lost Maggie and Jinx, I could not eat, my hair grew in completely white, and I lost almost half my body weight. My husband forced me to the doctor and my grief and weight loss had affected my thyroid, I was in trouble! Luckily its treatable, but most of my hair fell out, which was very weird. I always wanted to be skinny, but skinny at 25 and skinny to the point of emaciation at almost 60 are completely different looks!! I started making myself work with weights to tone up and for mental health, and got some great protien powder from Amazon, and have started meditation. I have survived so much in my life, but sometimes things just overwhelm you. I play great old hits from the 80s and dance around, even if I'm crying, its looks crazy, but it does help. My neighbor and I make firm plans to go out once a week because we are both at home, so it gets depressing unless you get out once in awhile. Helping each other helps us. I'm working on a way to start a charity to honor all my dogs, and writing a book. I still feel like I have this giant, bleeding wound no one can see, but I want to help other dogs and people. I have room in my heart to love more dogs. Bless you for your love of your dogs, you are a miracle to them every day. Remember that.
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