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  • Caring Twice in a Row

    Caring Twice in a Row

    I posted on Facebook recently that I had gotten an iron infusion to help with my anemia. But I didn’t talk about was how I was originally diagnosed and why it took so long to fix.  Two and a half years ago our church hosted a blood drive. Before the Red Cross takes your blood,…

  • The Check In 

    It’s still January of 2026. At the beginning of 2020, I wrote about all my hopes and dreams for the decade. Now it’s all whipping by like a car with no steering wheel and a brick on the gas.  In a few hours, I will pack up the kids and drive them two and a…

  • Home

    I had a reoccurring dream last night. One of the classics. It’s where I am running in slow motion. It’s not a nightmare, and I am not struggling get away from something, but trying to get back to something. The locations I am slo-mo traveling through are old neighborhoods of places I used to live…

  • Modern Mammals 

    In one of my recent notes, I mentioned some symptoms of the change of life I’ve been struggling through. If you’re a male reader, please don’t leave, fellows need to know about this too.  The first stages went by pretty fast. First, I was a girl minding her own business, then Aunt Flow showed up…

  • The Check In

    Whenever I go in for a checkup, before I am seen by an MD I have to be seen an RN. The nurse takes all of my vitals to give the doctor an idea of what he or she will be dealing with before they will even look at me. I didn’t pay too attention…

  • Taking Care

    One of the requirements of passing my insurance producers exam was learning about Medicare and Medicaid. It was a bit dry, but import because a significant portion, 20% and 21%, of our population is on one of them. Do we even know what the programs do?  In a nutshell they are both medical insurance, the…

  • Running the Numbers

    Through the activity of selling life insurance, I have been given a fascinating window into how people are doing. In order to qualify someone to buy insurance, I have to gather information about age, weight, prescriptions and debt-to-income ratio and plug it into my computer. The prices are then based on actuarial tables pulled from…

  • Happy Healthy Holidays

    How come it doesn’t seem like the holidays unless you’re in the Urgent Care waiting room for a family member? This last week, my youngest had a fever at the beginning of the week and so we brought her home until she seemed better then she went back to school. Then she got sick again,…

  • Shared Risk

    There has been a lot of talk about health insurance recently in the news. The whole point of insurance is to share some of the risk that we face in life. The idea is that if all the healthy people pay into one account, then if someone gets sick, that person can afford the care…

  • Vote for Life

    If you want to see less abortions in America, then I suggest that you vote for Kamala Harris this November. I know that this may seem counterintuitive, but the number of abortions actually goes down when Democrats are in office.* The reason is that it is not the lack of availability of safe abortions that…