HEALTH CARE
Topic: LIFE

HEALTH CARE~

We have all heard on so many TV shows like Oprah, The Doctors...that we need to be pro-active in our own health care. This message can not be stressed enough!! I can not count how times I have been told in the past that  "we can't find anything", so I go home only to keep on having the same symptoms and you know when some thing is wrong. With such great sites as WebMd and other's, there is no reason why you can't look stuff up! If you really feel seem thing is wrong keep on your health care provider until they pay attention. Get those second opinions, educate yourself as much as you can. This could be life or death.

I recently asked the head nurse at my Doctors office if doctors get offended when you either bring in a list or some information that you have found online. She of course said "that would be greatly appreciated!". As she said, doctors only have about 10 minutes with you on average. Make the most of your time, getting to the point and not being so vague helps a ton! If you have a list, some thing for them to go on....it helps. It's like giving a detective his first 10 clues!

So be strong, be educated and never give!

 

Out there
Mood:  chillin'
Topic: LIFE

Are you 'out there' or 'in there'? Are you out in the world or has the times we are in made you kind of a recluse? Me, it has made me drawn inward a bit. As the economic situation we are in, going out is too expensive so staying in has become the new norm. Know what? I don't miss it as much as I thought I would. Actually, being home has been one of the only comforting thing as of late. I have paid more attention to some household things (projects) that have been neglected for too long now and summer is some where out there.......so there's the yard too.

I think it's a 'grounding' thing. Getting back to the basics which was being home more, doing more home things and entertaining at home. Not bad.

It's not about you
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: LIFE
Some times we tend to think that everything that is happing is only happing to us. I'm telling you "It's not about you". There are far more bigger things in play at all times, than the world crashing in on just you. I see so many people on these reality shows that go so far beyond self-centered it's not funny. I want to scream at these people "IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU". Oh they think it is.....but they one day will wake up sadly to realize that nope....it wasn't about them.

Handicap parent? Then you can't be a good one!
Mood:  irritated
Topic: LIFE
According to South Carolina court system....if your handicap, you ARE NOT A GOOD PARENT! Yep, that's right people...if your handicap, you just can not be a good parent! My friend who has MS is fighting the fight of her life. No, it's not her MS, it's for custody of her 5 year old Daughter! The grounds....... that she is not a good parent because she's handicap. Well...ya know....she has MS and all!

The MS society and all those other people like the ACLU....no help what so ever....they don't get involved in legal cases? Since when! It must be they only deal in very high profile cases that are news worthy. She has called them all, heck ...I have called them all......zilch! "were sorry, we don't offer that kind of help"......wonderful.

So in this country of right's and blah blah blah.....do we really have them? Are we really so fair? it seems we are....only when it suits us. So have right-ed ourselves into wronging everyone else?