Thanks to the DKos mining of the Dairy Rescue bunch, I stumbled across this wonderful diary by Shockwave: At Natalin Sarkisyan's Funeral.
The beauty of getting a diary a day is that we can use them to draw attention to other diaries if we want to.
I want to.
I have grown pretty tired of the Rec list lately with its overabundance of candidate diaries. As a result, far too many other diaries of merit get scrolled into oblivion.
Thanks to the Rescue Rangers and especially shayera for Rescuing this one.
Here's how Shockwave starts out.
I had been drawn to Natalin's cause thanks to nyceve's diaries and also because my mother died last year from liver cancer. Certainly when you are 80 years old, liver cancer is very deadly, but an HMO made us waste time because they did not want to pay for her transplant. By the time I prepaid for one, it was too late. But what I know is that liver transplants are far from experimental nowdays. But they have to be performed quickly after a diagnosis to give the patient a better chance of survival.
Natalin was just starting her life. The doctors recommended a transplant. Cigna acted like the petty bean counters they are.
Head over and read the rest. It's not to late to give this one a Rec. Do it for Nataline.