Rain and ’send it come’.
Couldn’t think of a nice catchy title for this post….but, whatever…..Well, last night we had a break from the everlasting rains and I went to bed at about 10:30 without the sound of any water falling on the roof. So, I thought to myself..ok, perhaps tomorow we will see some sunshine. Who seh so? In the wee morning hours, some rumbling start and again……pitter patter pon de roof…..though not as heavily as previously. I got up to anodda grey morning…come here and my suspicions are confirmed…..we are going to get more rain today to rass! 
Actually, as I write, the sun is just barely peeking through the clouds, so let me say thanks for that…..
Changing the topic a bit (I think I have become almost like some of the Brits who wake up each day to see what the weather is going to bring)…..Have any of you Caribbean folk ever noticed how some of our people think about their family and friends who live in ‘foreign?’ I get the impression that lots of our people feel that their folks ‘up so’ serve one sole purpose……to send money and consumer goods for them, as fast as a magic wand can be waved. Presto…..send it come gimme! Apparently, these folks who work for this money do not have to pay any bills, dem jus work to lodge dem money a bank mek it grow interest….. Wait? You mean fe tell me seh a nuh so it go? 
Naw man…everyting in ‘Merica, Canada and Henglan free…government inna dem place deh look afta dem people! OK, I think you get my point.
One of our patients yesterday was speaking with us on rounds. We want to start him on a medication…..now, we have some free samples which we will be giving him, but the samples are not enough to complete the treatment course…..his family here will need to purchase two tablets to finish the course. Unfortunately, this is a medication which the hospital does not carry. In trying to explain to him that we are going to give him a prescription for his relatives HERE to purchase at any half decent pharmacy he informs us…..”Doc, me have a daughter inna States you nuh. Jus gimme de information mek me send it give her……she will fax de tings come gimme!” 
Of course, we had a good laugh at the thought.
In truth though, I must say that on a whole, Caribbean people do try to look after their family…so yes, quite a bit of remittances do arrive from ‘up so’ in order to try to maintain your peeps quality of life back home. Some of these ‘peeps’ take a bit too much for granted though….and IMHO it creates too much of a dependency syndrome. Food nuh free ‘up so’…gas nuh free ‘up so’. Everyting ‘up so’ is not cheap. But indeed, its all relative.
Anyhow, that is my little contribution for today……y’all tek it easy….
October 20th, 2005 at 10:41 am Morning Doc. Hope wunna get a lil relief soon from the rains. It can be quite depressing day after day. But how yuh know so good bout de families inna de caribbean and de ones up North. We go through de same thing. Evabodie hear we coming down fuh visit and want we bring de whole ah damned NY. Then got de nerve tuh want we tuh carh it tuh dem doorstep fi dem, and when yuh get dey, dem doan even wanna offer yuh a glass ah water fi yuh efforts, farless pay yuh. Dem think de streets up North paved wid gold and de families up dey living la vida rica.
October 20th, 2005 at 3:46 pm I feel you on that one but as man a foreign I feel some duty to look after those looked after me when I was back home so aint no problem. Is the other folk who feel that everything cheap and try to beg ya fa the latest brand name and that sorta thing that i cant even afford for myself that i will cuss
October 20th, 2005 at 6:30 pm Hope Wilma doesn’t wobble too much.
October 20th, 2005 at 7:49 pm funny post you are so right about that sometimes thats the reason I don’t tell anyone when I am travelling because they want this and that but never mention money. Hope the weather clears up soon.
October 20th, 2005 at 8:05 pm Most people at home don’t realise the struggle it is up north until they go and see for themselves.But the one in foreign kinda guilty of giving the impression that everything easy up there
October 20th, 2005 at 9:56 pm Kami, I must agree with yu. I’ll never forget when I was a kid in Jamaica and a certain relative who hadn’t visited in years came home. Everybody was whispering about how rich she was. Some said she was so wealthy she didn’t even know her own money (whatever the devil that meant). She brought lots of gifts and gave out lots of money. I was so shocked when I came to America and went to visit her. She lived in a tiny apt. in a very poor section of town. She was very far from “rich.” Lots of us go run up our credit cards and go overboard to impress the people back home because once you get on that plane fi gaw farrin, yu cyaan go back home wid bruk pocket. Dem wi laff afta yu and call yu wutliss.
October 20th, 2005 at 10:11 pm Yes -we can all relate to that syndrome - I know lots of J’cans Cayman who send back almost all their money every week. Enjoy the ass end of Wilma, doc. Stay Dry. More Bloggage, Please.
October 21st, 2005 at 12:28 am Rude bwoy, you still appreciating the rain because it cool down the place? I say, “Time fi some ra$$ claat heat in de place”. Know what you meran ’bout the “people a farrin”, specially since I is now a “people from farrin” and see how you get beggy beggy with me, a talk bout sen’ ticket and sen’ CD and whatevah!
That one was for the crack ’bout MBJR taking picha of me face!
October 21st, 2005 at 8:36 am A nuh dat farign peeps deh deh fa? Hey Doc, i can’t wait to get some good sunshine, i need the doors to return to their normal size.
October 21st, 2005 at 8:51 am Actually MB, we got some sunshine most o de day yesterday.