Agh. Yes, of course, I see... so true. Well, make sure you get all of your updated inoculations while they are still available and send away for your free covid tests if you haven't already, and keep up to date on any efforts to affect those programs and to fight it in the courts so if there are opportunities to help you'll know about them, and if they can delay destruction by two years maybe we can get a Democrat House and Senate in two years if elections are still fair and people are finally paying attention. And keep surrounded by a like minded community, such as on Substack and in your region. Hugs.
I have a Medicaid waiver program where I get 83 hours a week of paid home health care. It also pays for other things, but that one is the key thing, both financially and personally.
That is a measure of how sick I am with two progressive brain diseases. I am 46 and have progressive spastic hemiparesis which basically means spastic paralysis. The exact disease labels are irrelevant.
Without that paid home health care (fiercely loyal and loving family members and I do still need to pay bills and eat) and the medications I have, I very quickly have three choices. Hospital stay, Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking and/or an overdose, and/or trying to be a refugee to Canada. That’s it. That’s all.
So yes, very very ears on ground and all. Not catastrophizing. And a very sick feeling in the pit of my stomach.
No, not catastrophizing, and helplessness coupled with fear is terrible, but not unfounded. The only thing I can think of is that you might get some response if you write to those providers (start with various customer help calls and ask for where to write as well as looking online) and ask if they have a plan, ask for advice as to how you can plan, write Walz' office and ask those questions. With so much bulwark reinforcement needed so quickly it doesn't hurt to remind everyone about the need to plan ahead as to how to provide something for those most in need and draw attention to specific types of services that may be critical and unsupported. Will the state pick up some services? Does your county have services they may need to plan to reinforce or increase to fill gaps? Again, hugs. And keep online - it's a way to reach across miles and miles of blood red barbed wire attitude.
If such radical cuts are made they will cut into the magas as well, and then the assassination attempts may begin because they have the guns and we saw that it doesn't take much disillusionment for them to destroy things. Some of them may actually like their sick or handicapped family members and want to see them survive, even though that's probably a long shot. As for our side, lawyers and blue state AGs have already been strategizing to tie up any efforts to do serious damage. I think you'll be okay, Rebecca.
Rebecca, what state do you live in? Some states are likely to become better refuges against this administration than others.
Tim Walz’s Minnesota! And I know. But also very worry about federal programs.
Agh. Yes, of course, I see... so true. Well, make sure you get all of your updated inoculations while they are still available and send away for your free covid tests if you haven't already, and keep up to date on any efforts to affect those programs and to fight it in the courts so if there are opportunities to help you'll know about them, and if they can delay destruction by two years maybe we can get a Democrat House and Senate in two years if elections are still fair and people are finally paying attention. And keep surrounded by a like minded community, such as on Substack and in your region. Hugs.
I have a Medicaid waiver program where I get 83 hours a week of paid home health care. It also pays for other things, but that one is the key thing, both financially and personally.
That is a measure of how sick I am with two progressive brain diseases. I am 46 and have progressive spastic hemiparesis which basically means spastic paralysis. The exact disease labels are irrelevant.
Without that paid home health care (fiercely loyal and loving family members and I do still need to pay bills and eat) and the medications I have, I very quickly have three choices. Hospital stay, Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking and/or an overdose, and/or trying to be a refugee to Canada. That’s it. That’s all.
So yes, very very ears on ground and all. Not catastrophizing. And a very sick feeling in the pit of my stomach.
No, not catastrophizing, and helplessness coupled with fear is terrible, but not unfounded. The only thing I can think of is that you might get some response if you write to those providers (start with various customer help calls and ask for where to write as well as looking online) and ask if they have a plan, ask for advice as to how you can plan, write Walz' office and ask those questions. With so much bulwark reinforcement needed so quickly it doesn't hurt to remind everyone about the need to plan ahead as to how to provide something for those most in need and draw attention to specific types of services that may be critical and unsupported. Will the state pick up some services? Does your county have services they may need to plan to reinforce or increase to fill gaps? Again, hugs. And keep online - it's a way to reach across miles and miles of blood red barbed wire attitude.
If such radical cuts are made they will cut into the magas as well, and then the assassination attempts may begin because they have the guns and we saw that it doesn't take much disillusionment for them to destroy things. Some of them may actually like their sick or handicapped family members and want to see them survive, even though that's probably a long shot. As for our side, lawyers and blue state AGs have already been strategizing to tie up any efforts to do serious damage. I think you'll be okay, Rebecca.
Damn. Just damn.