||| FROM PENNY BUTTKE |||
My friend Difa has just decided to marry her ex-husband for the third time. “This time it will be different,” she says. “I just don’t see any way to live without him.” Over 150 of her friends have begged her to reconsider but she decided they weren’t really her friends.
Has he changed? He says he has. What happens if he hasn’t? Well, her ex-lawyer now his lawyer advised him to change the mutually agreed pre-nup so that if he doesn’t live up to his part she just has to trust him. “But, I know this time it will be different because he’s a new man and anyway I just don’t have a different choice.”
“Have you sought your community’s advice and assistance?” I ask. “No. I have to decide right this minute because he might change his mind.”
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Not a very apt tale, Penny, as both we and Island Hospital have changed. I’ll leave it up to our hard working OIHCD (Orcas Island Health Care District) to explain.
Great metaphor Penny, thank you. The third time usually isn’t a charm.
It is a shame there has been no information shared with the public to date on the vote taken on October 15th by the Hospital District Commissioners to put this in context.
The 3 to 2 vote to pursue a contract with Island Hospital indicates there are reservations and as I write a subsequent meeting is being held on ZOOM (10/20) that is anything but reassuring in details.
Penny ‘s metaphor is spot on!
I just need a local doctor, and I like IH. I like going to the Orcas Clinic.