Maggie Mae's Blog (4)

Some of you know me from the old tbd. I have talked about my sister's illness' in the past. She has MS and Parkinson's. Now they've found she has a rare degenerative disc disease. She has 9 disc in her spine that are really dissolving.

She now spends most of her time on a special board,not able to move for fear she could move wrong and become paralyzed.

She gets Medicare, but, and this is not new to the system, it has to be changed, she "makes" too much money from her disability to… Continue

I felt like that 5 year old little girl watching t.v. as I watched the flag draped coffin of President Kennedy. For a moment I was back there...I was sitting on the floor, with my legs "indian style" in front of the t.v. All the emotions surfaced, this was another fallen icon of my time.

I was sitting on the couch today, but as I looked down, I was sitting the same way as I was as that little girl. How strange, I wasn't even aware I could… Continue

I remember being able to go to a dr appointment, hand over my insurance card. Get that checkup I needed. If something was wrong in a test, I remember being able to go to a specialist and hand over my insurance card. I remember if I needed tests done, an mri, xray, bone density tests, etc, handing over my insurance card.

I remember feeling secure in the fact that I had that card! Just like alot of what I remember as good from the past,… Continue

You can eat right, exercise, meditate,pray, focus on positive thinking, know and use the Law of Attraction....and still life throws you right off the path thru no fault of your own. Sometimes life just is what it is.

When an illness strikes, I refuse to pile guilt on top of it by thinking I brought it on myself. My brother did all the right things, had a stroke and all the dr's could say was, it must be genetic.

If someone has a… Continue