I feel for you... same issues...compounded by a poisonous NEO environment...lead/mercury....autoimmune diseases...once you hit forty it comes after you with a vengeance.  I have healthcare for now...but will have to work until sixty to keep it...and the game is changing everyday...

Oh, to be twenty, thirty or even plain old forty, again... I am no longer indestructible.

 Debra,  With all the hoopla going on in Tremont - I dare say to most of us - it's a serious matter - but as I'm pondering and plotting my course so to speak - wondering if it's all worth it - how and if I wanted to continue on the course I have chosen?  Everytime I think I'll throw in the towel, something else comes along and I start to re-think things - problem is - nobody plays by the same rules up at TWDC - one week it up and the next week its down.  I destinctivly remember being at a meeting when they said the CUT OFF date for turning in a bio for the board candidacy was Dec. 18 - after that it was my understanding that you could be NOMINATED FROM THE FLOOR - but that your were not a legitimate candidate until you were nominated that night - if that's so then wouldn't there be some kind of mis-representations by jumping in mid-stream and passing out bios before the meeting is called to order on the 29th. 

- and then there's the election monitors - one would think they would welcome election monitors - I mean isn't there a conflict of interest where they have the staff of other CDC's counting the votes - since they are all funded by the same organizations? 

And isn't there some kind of conflict with Sammy having his own fundraising page - under Tremont West development corp.?    Click below and check it out.

I still want to know what happened to the Walmart donations for low-income families?

https://www.change.org/donation/create?charity_id=199528&gvite_id=1766&project_id=54383

i know desiree - i went 7 years without healthcare. luckily, i did not develop a chronic illness, though i do have two semi ruptured discs that worker's comp snaked out of caring for. truth be told - i really dont care if they want to act like soul-less bastards and use the money to go buy baseball trading cards - i often think i am better off without health care.

i had health care for two years. my old primary care physician was semi-retired and they wouldnt take me back into the fold because i had been gone for too long. i ended up relying on this worker's comp doctor who was a prescription junkie and prescribed celebrex. i ended up being the sickest i'd ever been in my entire life as a result of that crap. truth be told, though, it wasnt all his fault - worker's comp wouldnt pay for any diagnostic or remediation treatment - only drugs. it was pretty much all he could do. i stopped seeing him when he tried to prescribe me this antiseizure medication that was making people lose weight (as well as their mental stability, I found out after I read all the reports and research on the crap - thank god i never filled the script). i guess it was having a moment of success with chronic pain management.

now, i'm two and 1/2 years without insurance and back to being healthy again... with no medications... except my partner/not-legal-husband-though-we-had-a-wedding-with-two-hundred-of-our-closest-friends-and-relatives-we-didnt-file-with-the-big-man has to be the one to do stuff like climb ladders. Hence, he was the one out on the ladder at 9pm in 0 degree weather when our rooster, Henry, flew to the neighbor's roof and we had to do anything we could to get him back in or he might have frozen over night...

ok, my point, it is ridiculous that we have to manage our lives so as to prevent any health catastrophy that would ruin us financially (though truth be told, we wouldnt fall too many rungs - in fact i think we still have one foot on the ground). we are purportedly the wealthiest nation in the world -   we should also be the healthiest IF WE HAD ETHICS, MORALS AND HUMILITY. we dont.

as for that other state of dis-ease, Ms. Jerleen. I know. I feel for you guys stuck here in Tremont with these pompous idiots. I didnt mention in my letter (that guy so graciously posted - i think ;)  I have absolutely nO vested interest in Tremont - other than my love and respect for what it used to be. i will fight for that, but when someone comes knockin' around my home and my family all bets are off - I am mama lion. Since I have no vested interest, it is only reasonable and rational to say - Hey, go at it - make sure you dont leave your integrity and your soul in the dust.

I'm sorry sister girl. 

you have your mother and your son and all the rest of your family living in Tremont as well as a long history there. i think its just a tad disingenuous to say justice for others is your only motive.

You also havent had them go after you personally. there's plenty of other battles and it doesnt help to spread myself so thin. Its not like i'm deciding to become a self-obsessed, money hungry Tremonter... 

  http://www.ramohio.org/ This organization is holding an event in early May that will allow residents without health care to see a doctor or dentist for free.  It is sure to be a real madhouse.  It will be held at the Berea fairgrounds on May 2 and 3rd.