What I do before I go to bed…

Just got out of classes (yes it is 10:00 PM), and I was doing my nightly stuff. I haven’t mentioned it on here yet, but I quit smoking again… I am now doing my nightly stuff. So here is what I do before I go to bed.

I go to MyPyramid and log what I ate today (menu planner). It lets me know what I need to eat more of and less of. Now, let me tell you I have been doing doing really good and loosing weight (more than with any diet that I have done), until this quit smoking thing. Guess I need to buy carrots or something.  The good part? Dust quit too! He has gained ten pounds! (He is underweight to that is GOOD.)

Then I run over and make sure that Nina has been doing her spelling games. (Last year with everything we tried she still didn’t do well. Using these games she has been getting at least a 80%) WEIRD

Then I go to Heaven’s schooland log her hours and make sure that there isn’t anything I need to print for “tomorrow” as well as to check my kmail to be sure that none of the teachers need anything from me.

Then I go to my school and check my email, and depending on how tired I am, I check what is going on in my classes. (More often I do it in the morning.) Then I check my NORMAL email. (I reply sometimes, and sometimes I don’t… Depends on how tired I am

Depending on if anyone had anything to do with a doctor, dentist or whatever I then go enter that information in my family’s health manager. I then decide if I am gonna go play my silly games or not.

Last I decide what I am gonna read before I go to sleep. (Tonight? Forensics Under Fire by Fisher.)

What did I do today? Laundry, dishes, bathed all 6 dogs, bathed both cats (they made friends with a skunk the other night), watched my lectures, read some of my work for classes, helped Katrina with her math homework, ran to town, and on on on…

Good Night :)




Teen Drama….

I just gotta see if I am completely wrong in this, or if I am just slightly wrong. I am sick of teen drama, and it has only been going on for a day. A while back Heaven got into an argument with one of her “friends” a little background is needed here I think.

This friend has been on the “you can’t have anything to do with” list several times. #1 time, the friend and Heaven were sharing passwords (yes a mistake), and the friend emailed nasty things to a different friend. I know this as I had a keylogger program (as well as logged everything else), and it wasn’t sent from our computer. The second friend in question is never allowed to talk to Heaven again. I don’t blame the parents, but Heaven didn’t do it. This was a few years ago, so we are talking sending nasty stuff to a 13 or 14 year old boy.

#2 Ever seen mean girls? This “friend” made a call to a girls house and left a message that the girl was pregnant. Even though with caller ID, they knew who had made the call, this friend said Heaven did it.

#3 We picked Heaven up from the movies one time and this “friend” was there, and was on drugs. The kind where you chew on your own face, some sort of speed.

Now this newest drama. The “friend” got mad at Heaven because she was jealous of a different friend Heaven had. They both acted immature about it (my daughter as well). The “friend” was saying things like “you are so poor your clothes never fit” (I laughed after all my mom just spent $500 on Heaven’s cloths), “at least my parents are together” and anything else mean she could think to say. This was all on text message, and yes I read the text message. My daughter did something silly, because she was mad. She broke a DVD that she had borrowed from this “friend.”

Now I have stayed out of it, after all other than to tell Heaven this “friend” isn’t a friend, and she needs to stay away from all contact with her, I figure it is up to Heaven to do whatever needs to be done. So I am on myspace today, I know shocker, Heaven’s grandfather messaged me, so I was responding, and guess who contacts me? (I am generally friends with Heaven’s friends, as I monitor them to a degree so I know what is going on.) Anyway, she pretends to be her mother, and tells me I need to punish Heaven as well as pay for the movie.

Convo: her – hi, my mom would like to have a little talk with you. hi this is (insert name), I would really appreciate if you would disaplin your daughter for trashing the movie (insert name) bought. She let Heaven borrow it the day she bought it. So if you would please drop twenty dollars off in the mail box or a new one. Thanks (Discipline was spelled that way.)

Me: You have to take that up with Heaven. I am not involved, and I am not getting involved. Nor am I going to pay any money for her actions, you will have to get Heaven to pay for her own actions.

Her: she is your daughter

Me: She is close enough to being an adult, that unless it is very important it is up to her to take care of her own problems.

Her: i payed thirty dollars for (name here) to have that movie.

Me: Listen if you want to talk to me about it give me a call; (my phone number). I am not going to have this conversation on myspace.

So I thought about it, and thought about it. I called the mom. Did I mention I don’t like her even a little bit? No, well I don’t. So I called, talked to her and asked her if everything was taken care of with the movie. Now it is from the phone so I am giving generals not exact words as I can’t remember the exact words. She basically tells me, no but she isn’t going to push it. Tells me basically what a pain in the rear my daughter is, and that it was a movie the entire family would enjoy and the money came out of her pocket for the money… So I just say ok, ok, ok… After all I am not calling to get into a fight with this woman, I have done that before.

(The “friend” was calling every fifteen minutes because Heaven and her were in a fight, it was on the caller ID, Dustin had to work. It was a couple of years ago. So I called back to ask the “friend” to quit calling, as it was interrupting the sleep of the family. The mother answered the phone. I asked to talk to the “friend” to which the mother said, “do you know what time it is?” To which I said yes, but that the daughter was calling over and over and I was calling to ask her to stop, as Heaven had asked her to stop without success. She tells me her daughter is asleep and there is NO way she is making the calls. To which I tell her I have caller ID and the last call was a couple of minutes ago. She tells me “fine, I will take care of my daughter, you take care of yours.” end of convo) So nope I don’t like this woman.

To end: I have no intention of paying for the movie, making Heaven pay for the movie, or for Heaven to be in trouble for the movie. She knows she acted immaturely, which is all being in trouble would be for. However, since she knows and is appologetic I am not doing it. I realize that in a small way it is wrong of me, as I feel the way I do because of my own immature behavior, after all I don’t like these people.

Any words of wisdom out there? Am I so wrong, I should do some other course of action, or am I just wrong but you don’t blame me? Oh, one other thing the reason for the fight in which she kept calling that night? She told Heaven I was a slut, and I slept with everyone in town. I didn’t really care, as I know that isn’t true, so I actually kind of thought it was funny. However, Heaven was pissed and told her to never talk to her again.

OH, and Heaven has to block her from her cell, block her from her email, myspace and so forth. I am sick of this girl. She is a druggy (I know for sure, as she asked my daughter via text messages I have read several times), she is a bad person (not only the above, but she is willing to lie to someone older than her about her age so they will date her, last one was 24, also read the text messages), and so on… I am sick of the girl, and hope that Heaven has finally had enough too.




Internet

The internet is such an amazing thing, I get emails all the time on various different things. Every once in a while I address the thought here. However, I have to say the most amazing to me is when I get one from some with experience with AutoImmune Hemolytic Anemia. I just received such an email today. Imagine my thrill at hearing that someone had 17 years without any symptoms. SEVENTEEN YEARS, while that is by no means a guarantee for my daughter, it does give a certain amount of hope.

So for the other email updates on Heaven. She went to hemotologist this last Tuesday, and she still has the antogen (I think that is the word), and thus needs to stay on the MP6 (mercaptopurine). 75 MG 5 days a week and 100 MG 2 times a week. However, she is staying pretty stable. Also she gets to go down to a blood draw a month. So all in all pretty good news. She also takes a generic form of bactrim, and Lexapro

I guess that is all that is new… :)




life



Ummm… Insurance Ideas

I would like to think I am an equal opportunity politics follower person. (Did that sentence make any sense at all?) However, I am loosing patience and quite frankly a bit of respect for the republicans of my state (Wyoming.) Granted we don’t have a lot of representatives and we are second craziest (second to Texas), on some issues. (I actually love my state, despite what it might seem, just like most people it is easier to point out what is wrong verses what is right.) I am in complete agreement with a lot of conservative values when it comes to cash flow, not so much on social issues though. Anyway, I love my state. Most things I support my representatives on. One of the fights WE (Wyoming and the US) need to win is this insurance thing. I would like to point out the VAST majority of us understand that health insurance in our country doesn’t work, and want at the very least a public option. (The public option is silly to my mind by the way, it should just be us all. There can still be private insurance as “elective” stuff still has a place in our society and so forth.)

Anyway, I have listened to many different ideas. One totally angers me, as a reality check needs to be given to some politicians. We can’t fix this by making it mandatory that everyone has insurance (similar to car insurance and such.) After all someone making min. wage brings home about 15K a year, average health insurance costs 13K a year… So what those making min. wage are to live in 2K a year? See the math problem there? This wouldn’t fix anything, it might put some of us in jail (if they decide that it is an offense that is criminal, like car insurance), and so on. I guess that is one way to make sure you get medical care, after all prisoners are given that standard of care. Maybe that is what we should do! I will break the law, and go to jail, then I can get my health problems taken care of! (I am being sarcastic by the way.) Health care is a human right, thus those in jail are given this care. Why is it us law following people aren’t given this basic essential?

Anyway, that is one proposal I have heard.

here if you can’t see.

Dear Wyoming Reps, (NOTE: One of the people in this video, the one doing the most talking isn’t a Wyoming Rep.)

Poll numbers are changing as the propaganda against health care reform heat up. Most people don’t research stuff, and believe what they are told. You are purposely telling them things that are not quite true. Trusting the government IS a problem for most people in the US. However, it is all the misinformation about someone between you and your doctor that feeds this problem. We already have someone between us and our doctor. For  me it is the cash in my pocket (“do you have insurance terra?” doctor says, terra replies, “no.” doctor says, “well I can suggest this then.”) For many it is there insurance that is between them and the doctor. (Doctor says, “let me look to see what your insurance will cover, I think this medicine will work the best, but we are going to have to use this one since it is approved by your insurance company.”

A large problem with any insurance is fraud, ANY. It isn’t the government, it is the values of people wanting to make a quick buck. It is that people aren’t taught that if you steal from X Y doesn’t get ripped off but Z does. (Most people won’t steal from someone, but will from a corporation, not realizing that stealing from the corportation actually is stealing from the people.)

I would like you to research some numbers before you spout numbers (i.e. 90% of those kids are eligible for care under a program like title 19.)

Approximately 138,000 Wyomingites not eligible for Medicare lacked health insurance in 2007 and 2008, Families USA reported Tuesday. About 102,000 of those people did not have health insurance for six months or more.

The data, which came from several sources within the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, also estimated about 85 percent of the uninsured in Wyoming were part of a working family. More than 20 percent were part of families with incomes greater than 200 percent of the poverty level, or $42,400 for a family of four.

“A physician first and foremost is there to get the patient healthy and to stay healthy,” Ellis said. “But there is an economic reality that they are trying to run a business and stay open.”

So really? Plus Wyoming doesn’t take care of adults that need medical care unless they make less that a few hundred dollars a month, only children.

The USA has the best health care in America? That is why everyone that I know that doesn’t have insurance that is close enough to the Mexican border will actually go to MEXICO for care? Oh, is it the money? If our system doesn’t take care of us, it isn’t a good system, we are talking HEALTH here. For the amount of money we pay for the very poor, we could have a system that takes care of us ALL. The reason is because only the really sick is on government help. The healthy need to supplement the sick, thus creating a balance in which health care costs are reduced. Everyone on the SAME insurance would do this.

Transparency… You think I don’t know that it will cost me $5000 to have my surgery? You think if I knew that to begin with I would what? not get ill? Let me tell you I don’t think i would have picked being this way if I had a choice. You think that knowing what my daughters autoimmune disease would cost would have changed anything? We aren’t talking about we made choices and those choices resulted in us getting ill, we are talking we got ill.

Think, talk for the people… Think of the people… The insurance people will be fine, or they won’t. People need health care… Research it, look into it…

Thank you,

Terra Sears




Doug Jorrey

Comments received and my response to those comments.

Your clueless comments …

I appreciate the show of the fact that I can’t spell. :) I am perfectly aware that I can’t spell, and I have decided on my blog that it is OK. I admitted full well that I didn’t understand the issue, and that I was most likely the idiot in this situation, as well as that I needed to research this issue more. As with most people I have things that I have studied in detail and those that I haven’t. I admitted that I have not researched this subject, and I was overzealous because of news that came out of Texas about the subject of secession. My blog is where I express my ideas as I learn new subjects. I know most people post when they are done (or think they are) researching a subject. My blog expresses my growth in a lot of areas. While that might lead to some posts that I follow up with something about me being wrong, my normal readers understand and appreciate that. I have no interest in gun regulations, thus I am not likely to research this subject. I am however, still quite willing to admit I don’t know anything about this subject.

In regards to using the “F” word, I am afraid that I don’t agree at all. First, I am not writing this blog as any correspondence to anyone,specifically. I don’t know how you happened upon my blog, but it is normally only frequented by people I actually know. If you have earned the right to use the word via the military, I have the right to use the word as well… A few things about me:

1. I am a 32 year old woman in school for criminal justice (probation/parole)
2. I have given birth 4 times; I lost a son, I gave a daughter up for adoption and I have 2 beautiful girls.
3.  I was sexually abused as a teenager, by a teenager.
4. I have screwed up in my life many many times, and I can admit it each and every time.

I think I have “earned” the right to say whatever I want to. (Although I would note that I might say WTF? but I would never say the full blown words.)

As for the event being what it was, I will simply say that it wasn’t “sold” to me as a fundraiser. In addition, Independent doesn’t mean I can’t make up my mind; it means that both sides being combined make more sensible resolutions to problems. I am not for “big government” nor am I for whatever label you would put on the republican agenda; I am for people. Real people in real situations. I attended this event to express views on insurance. I messed that up, I didn’t say anything about it. I am shy, and don’t do well in the public arena.

Now to the heart of the issue: Single Payer Insurance and Politics

Perhaps I am stupid, perhaps the thoughts I brought up were stupid. However, I will tell you this because I said something that was stupid our representatives (in Wyoming) know my personal story. They understand that I have a teenager with an autoimmune disease, they understand that without some sort of program, her life will be bound to fail. They know WHY I advocate for single payer insurance. I am not now nor will I ever be in politics, but there is one fact that I might not be proud of but that is true. If you want people to hear your story you have to be sure that people READ what you say. Would you have thought twice about my blog if you came here and saw my personal story without my “lack of fact” post on the representative?  (Think hard on that.) Not proud of it, but for my daughter I am willing to look like a total idiot if that is what it takes to get people to look at this subject. You have to get the attention first, then you tell the story. Do I wish it was different? Yes, I do. Do I wish that my emails to the senators was taken more seriously? Yes, I do. However, it isn’t…

You yourself haven’t even looked at the single payer option; your comment shows this. The VA as an example would show a true socialist approach. I am talking more like medicare and medicaid (which by the way I have experienced medicaid, I was a teen mother.) We are talking private doctors, with private practice and a group insurance plan that PAYS it. We aren’t talking about a government run health system. Were there some things that I wasn’t able to do because of it? Sure, instead of taking a specific medication, sometimes a different one had to be substituted, and some treatments weren’t OK to use. However, it is still better than no insurance or getting no care because you can’t afford it.

I do apologize to Colin Simpson, the reason that it took so long after the dinner to make the post is because I needed to decide if it was worth it. Was I really willing to stoop so low to get the point out there? Ultimately, if Simpson decides to run for governor I don’t know a single person that won’t vote for him (me included), no one was going to take what was said seriously, and I am a mother (my first priority is to my children), so the answer was yes. The only possible harm was to my reputation, which I don’t care about enough anyway.

The problem with our system is that we look to our “own kind” in getting what we need to know when we research subjects. Most of us don’t look at the other side, and if we do normally we mock what we think we know (which is the angle you see here), but we really don’t know. It is a system that doesn’t work to educate, only to back up whatever views you already have. I implore you, and everyone to really look at the single payer system. Protect my children, and all the other children…

I was planning on making this post next week… However, I will make it now… Thank you for your time… Terra




Canadians Hate Their Medical Coverage?

One of the things I hear all the time, is how Canadians hate their medical coverage. When I ask these people for proof of some kind, you know a blog with details, or a study something I get commercials from the US in response. You know insurance backed coverage? I have personally seen many Canadians address this issue on blogs, and I haven’t seen one say that they would change their coverage. In fact they seem to think their coverage is superior to ours in the US. Now don’t get me wrong I realize not every single person is going to be happy with it, NOTHING works that well. But don’t take my word for it. Research it on your own, and watch this…




One Mind at a Time

So here is what I want to see, I want to see one mind changed at a time. If I was to tell you I know a senator that was a practicing doctor, and was an intelligent man. Yet he was on the wrong side of this issue, would the logical conclusion be to move on or to make the case? We are talking about one of the people that could make a difference here. We are talking about a man that understands some of the fundamental problems. Someone that advocates for taking personal responsibility of your health care. Someone that understands and agrees that the first step is to stop people from eating wrong and so on. However, recognizes that this isn’t always the case. After all with children like Heaven what could she have done to “give” herself this disease (for the record they don’t know what causes it.)

My logical conclusion (OK I don’t know if it is logical or not) is to have all of us who understand the needs of this country in regards to health care, write to him. Explain and explain. Teach him what he needs to know. He could be the leader this fight needs, and he is articulate enough to champion this cause. He could be our leader. The only thing standing in the way is incorrect preconceived notions… So here is my request, write to him…

Senator Barraso, write to him today. Explain your situation, explain what you know… I don’t care where you live, enough logical argument will change his mind. Write to him, look at his current arguments. Explain why they are wrong if you can… Let us the people who care, Lobby him to the point where the truth comes out… Senator_Barrasso@barrasso.senate.gov

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVuhP2qcRf0

Copy and Paste the Code into your webpage of blog to advocate this cause…

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Is Obama Making a Mess?

The deeper I get into this, the more I learn about this health care, the more I realize we aren’t on a new path… Will Obama keep his promise on health care? Will my children be protected? Will your children be protected? I am afraid that we might be on the same road as Jimmy Carter… Worse, I am afraid he will make those that can’t afford medical care essentially a welfare type thing…  Will we? I hope not…

I know I am on a tangent, and I most likely will be for quite a while longer!

Tell me what you think




Melt to the Floor

Have you ever wanted to melt into the floor, knowing that something dramatic is gonna happen soon?

Background: We have six dogs, a cat, rats, and a snake… Yes, all of that. My daughter Heaven, has been going through “baby” withdrawls. All our critters are adults now… Well except she went through this and a few weeks later the rats had babies. I thought “thank goodness” after all I thought for sure this would subside the “can I have a _insert baby animal here_” for a long time…

Well it did, or so I thought…

Today, Heaven brought home a kitten. Kristi and her adopted it from the shelter… I don’t want it, worse Dust doesn’t want it… In fact I know all hell is going to break loose here soon. I suspect that Heaven will at the very least be grounded…

So here I am wanting to melt into the floor…

Edit: I need thoughts. How do I explain to a teen aged girl why she is in trouble for this? The kitten was going to be put to sleep, I understand her want to save it. However, she thinks that since she saved it (thus “doing the right thing”) should absolve her from being punished… Anyone have any idea on how to explain to her that while she “did the right thing” she still did the wrong thing? I tried to explain it as, even though she did a good thing she didn’t do what was right for her family. She made a choice, and now she has to live with the consequences of that choice. She will be grounded, and she will have to find the kitten a home…

*SIGH




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