Thursday, August 31, 2017

Take Action: Tell TX and LA governors to activate the Emergency Prescription Assistance Program

Take Action: Tell TX and LA governors to activate the Emergency Prescription Assistance Program

Take Action: Tell TX and LA governors to activate the Emergency Prescription/Assistance Program


Contact:
Texas and Louisiana Governors and ask that they request the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to activate its Emergency
Prescription Assistance Program (EPAP). This program will ensure that
eligible patients can receive their desperately needed prescriptions at
no cost from participating pharmacies. 

Here are more references to assistance for those who need their vital medications after such a loss due to Hurricane Harvey...

Monday, August 28, 2017

Just a Small Portion of the damage from Hurricane Harvey!!!!






My daughter took these yesterday near the town of Rock Port, where her husbands Aunt, Uncle, and cousins "road out" this horrendous hurricane. Thank goodness they are "okay" but almost were swept away by flood waters... they were in a building with a concrete foundation very well bolted down, and it came off of that foundation and literally "floated" into the neighbor's home....  She said the photo's do not even begin to show the true nature of what this storm did... that HUGE BOATS, LIKE YACHTS WERE TOSSED UPON THE SHORE LINES AND THROWN AROUND LIKE TOOTHPICKS!!!!








Friday, August 25, 2017

AS HURRICANE HARVEY MAKES LANDFALL SOON, MY DAUGHTER AND FAMILY ARE RIGHT IN THE PATH OF THIS HORRENDOUS STORM!



AGAIN MY DAUGHTER AND HER FAMILY, IN JIM WELLS COUNTY ONLY 30 MINUTES FROM CORPUS ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS HORRENDOUS HURRICANE!!! 



PLEASE KEEP MY FAMILY, THEIR FRIENDS AND ALL OF THE FAMILIES IN THOUGHT AND PRAYERS AS THIS STORM COMES IN AS PROBABLY A CAT 2, WHICH THE WINDS, STORM SURGE, AS WELL AND LIGHTENING, POSSIBLE TORNADO'S THAT CAN SPAWN FROM THESE, A HUGE AMOUNT OF RAINFALL, FROM 15 INCHES AND UP, MAJOR FLOODING.....


https://www.facebook.com/KRIS6News/?hc_ref=ARSm9NhNNXFH1LNsFVAeZGtSYoyQUXejGnRVp2IntIAHqVQoQr9u7h0MC65sXCdLO7g


ABOVE IS THE LINK to the major news channel in the area, their Facebook page..,,

Thursday, August 24, 2017

PLEASE Keep MY DAUGHTER, HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS, AS WELL AS EVERYONE IN THE GULF COAST REGION DUE TO THE HURRICANE HEADED TOWARDS THEM AS A CAT 3

PLEASE EVERYONE !!!!!! Keep my DAUGHTER, HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS IN YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS AS THIS HURRICANE COMING IN TO THE GULF COAST COULD BE RIGHT OVER THE TOP OF ALL OF THEM!!! They live only about 30 MINUTES from Corpus and it is NOT LOOKING GOOD while the storm picked up to a Cat 3 hurricane, and appears to be making landfall very close to them. Also, pray for everyone in the areas that are in the path if this monstrous and extremely "slow moving" storm which could mean much more flooding and damage to the entire Gulf Coast all the way from the Corpus area, all the way to Houston.. 

It could also bring torrential down pours even through the San Antonio area, and up through my way, we could have a great deal of rain from it.... also our Eastern Seaboard is experiencing severe storms due to the HOT and now a cool front coming through that can cause tornado's, high winds, lots of electrical stormy weather, flooding, hail, wind damage and more.... So, many of us are either in the path of something horrendous, or have family and friends in the zone of these storms....

 https://www.facebook.com/KRIS6News/?hc_ref=ARRLDBwgBH4gUTkJozyR18FQ4djWixyHrSAmZCepS-_YiNrQgY9y85MkU4Q8O8hkkI0



 I pray all are well, homes are well, electricity stays on, and no one loses life or limb to high waters and other things that come from these storms....

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

"Stomp Out Bullying" October Month


With School just beginning this is a HUGE issue for so many kids!!!! I am in total support of this campaign... after being a "bit overweight" as a teenager, I was "teased" about it, nothing like what happens now, but it did effect me, even today.... I see an "overweight" girl when I look in the mirror... so "any" type of teasing, etc... can effect our kids the rest of their lives....

 

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http://stompoutbullying.org/information-and-resources/about-bullying-and-cyberbullying/issue-bullying/

 Learn the facts about Bullying!!!!


 

 

 








Letter from the Arthritis Foundation to Paul Ryan Speaker of the House and Congress!

 

 We all need to be TELLING OUR STORIES TO CONGRESS, THE PRESIDENT, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, AND OUR STATE GOVERNMENTAL BODIES ALSO!!!


FROM FUNDS FOR ARTHRITIC ILLNESSES, AUTOIMMUNE ILLNESSES, AND CHRONIC PAIN, THAT OFTEN FOLLOWS THESE ILLNESSES AND MANY MORE... WE MUST STAND UP AND TELL IT LIKE IT IS... NO LONGER CAN WE SIT ON THE BACK BURNER AND ALLOW THE GOVERNMENT TO NOT DO THEIR JOBS IN HELPING US, AMERICANS. WE ARE THE NATION, AND IT'S TIME THAT THIS GOVERNMENT PUT THE PEOPLE FIRST!!!!

 






http://www.arthritis.org/Documents/Sections/Advocate/Regulatory-Letters/AF-Letter-to-Congress-Leadership-on-Health-Reform-Fixes.pdf




Friday, August 18, 2017

A quick Break from the "medical things" and a bit about my life these past days...

I just  got my new little "Bella-Doxie" yesterday. Her and Peanut are learning to get used to one another.... since she is barely six weeks old, she is still quite little and whines a bit. I think she misses her Mom and brothers and sisters. But, they have been playing with one another and I know in a week or so, all three of us will settle down into a routine. I've not had such a little one in a while, that I had to paper train. Peanut was already a bit older when i adopted him, about 6 months. So he was already almost trained by the time he came to live with me.


Also, today is a VERY SPECIAL day in my life. In 1984, my daughter Amanda was born. Words cannot even begin to express just how fortunate I am to have such an incredible daughter, who is a wife, and Mom herself; as well as a special friend to many of the people that are her friends.

She came about 2 weeks earlier than what we thought. But, LOL, I only lived about 2 blocks from the hospital at the time, so I had "Braxton-Hicks" contractions with her about a month before she was due. I didn't have them with my son, so I thought I was going to have her a month too early. In fact, I made two trips to the hospital, all "false labor" as they also call it.

But, since they had to give me "Pitosin" with my son 5 years earlier, they also about 2 weeks before my due date went ahead and since I was showing already dilating and effacing, gave me the same to help get my labor moving along.

I had my son, and he started kindergarten about 2 weeks after she was born. I so "KNEW" she was a girl, and so wanted a girl. Back then, (even though not ThAT long ago) they did not do "sonograms" etc, unless they suspected something wrong. So, I could only wait and see for sure, if she was a girl. But, in my heart I knew from day one she was definitely going to be my little girl. I got to stay at home with her about the 1st 9 months then went back to work. She was a tiny thing, only about 19 inches long, and weighed almost the same as her brother, 7 pounds and 1 ounce, but her brother was 22 inches long or so. So, he was LONG and was kind of thin since he had so much length. She looked like a little baby doll, since she was so much shorter. A head of full really dark hair, and had the dark skin tone, from both sides of the family.

I got tickled my best friend from high school and I were expecting at the same time. So, I can recall my friend wanting "Mexican" food all the time. She would have eaten Mexican food 3 meals a day, for the entire 9 months if she could have... LOL!

Anyway, now at 33 years old which seems impossible that time has flown by so quickly, she has her 3 children, her daughter who she raised from the time Heather was 2 years old, and then her 2 boys who are about 7 and 12. So, happened her boys were spaced out about like her and her brother.

I miss them so much! They live about 7 hours from me. So, even though we talk gosh, at least 3 or 4 times... I don't get to see them nearly as much as I would like to.... So, I have a new little "Doxie", and am wishing my daughter a wondrous and special birthday, along with many, many more days of joy to come.... and I include a few photo's


 So, here's the new little "Bella-Doxie"
 Here is Bella and Peanut looking at one another.



  Myself and Amanda....


 My daughter her husband and the kids.


And here are more of her, her husband and the kids and their lives throughout the years they have been together...