New Year - Old Me
Good Morning and I hope everyone is having a great start to 2010.
I had hoped to introduce a new website this morning, but it turns out there is a lot more complexity to moving than originally thought. Go Daddy's proprietary program is not designed to make it easy to move away from (surprise, surprise) and while I can easily export all the entries I would lose the comments. Since the comments are more important to me than the entries that is not an option. I will have something figured out soon.
The next thing is I have really been under the weather the last few days and this morning I am just not up to writing. I was really looking forward to communicating with everyone, but the diabetes has been very ungracious along with a few other problems and I am just not up to it today. I hope to have everything under control by tomorrow and be able to get the new year started with a really good post which I already have outlined and am excited about sharing with everyone so check back then and I will do my best to be back on my feet.
I had hoped to introduce a new website this morning, but it turns out there is a lot more complexity to moving than originally thought. Go Daddy's proprietary program is not designed to make it easy to move away from (surprise, surprise) and while I can easily export all the entries I would lose the comments. Since the comments are more important to me than the entries that is not an option. I will have something figured out soon.
The next thing is I have really been under the weather the last few days and this morning I am just not up to writing. I was really looking forward to communicating with everyone, but the diabetes has been very ungracious along with a few other problems and I am just not up to it today. I hope to have everything under control by tomorrow and be able to get the new year started with a really good post which I already have outlined and am excited about sharing with everyone so check back then and I will do my best to be back on my feet.
I confess that I am eager for your new blog site to get up and running. But take your time, get out from under the weather, and work out the bugs. We appreciate you.
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Ditto what Josiah said, David.
Feel better soon.
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David, I am hoping that you take care of your health first. I am married to a brittle diabetic and I know what the diabetes can to do your body. Watching someone with diabetes cope with life and eating properly, eating is such an important part of your life it becomes something you hate to do, is difficult. So please for those that love you, do take care of yourself.
As for your step daughters house, if there is something that we can do let us know. Thank God the kids were not at home. Stuff can be replaced, lives cannot.
Good luck on your resolutions, I quit making them a long time ago. Never could stick to them. LOL
Connie
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Thanks, Connie.
My situation is one shared by millions in America. Perhaps I can use this moment to point out a real dilemma that I can handle better than most, but nobody should have to. I spend over $1,000 a month on prescription drugs and probably $5,000 a year on other medical care. I can not get health insurance without huge premiums and limitations for pre-existing conditions. For me that is a big bite, but for many that would be an impossible situation. A heart attach or major accident could even wipe me out.
I am blessed to be able to afford my care (so far), but my heart goes out to those who can't.
Unfortunately Washington doesn't seem to understand that it isn't the large majority who are happy with the status quo who need help. The United States is one of the few countries in the world where you can end up losing everything you have almost overnight because of medical crisis. Yet at the same time the president of United Health Care (used only as one example) makes over 35 million dollars a year.
We have a broken system and I fear politics may keep it that way.
As far as my step daughter's home it was mainly memories that were lost. Nobody is homeless or in need of anything material. Like many houses here it was very old. The other side of that is that events like this force us to create new memories that are priceless.
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David, I understand your dilemma with the health costs. Very fortunate for us that Steve, being a veterinarian, was able to go to work for the USDA. He was able to get on health insurance and life insurance through them. We pay for it, but it is cheaper than the costs of the meds. He has been a diabetic since he was 15, so if it had not been for working for the government, he would have never had health or life insurance. We are very fortunate. Yes, there are millions in America that are forced to go without meds because of our wonderful health care system. And if Obama's plan goes into effect, we are among the ones that are considered "old" and will not be able to get health insurance either. We will just have to wait and see.
Yes, my heart also goes out to those that cannot afford their health care. And I pray that you will be able to afford yours as well.
Glad to hear about your step daughter's home. You will always have the memories, just not be able to pick them up and look at them, but your mind has wonderful pictures stored. And the new memories will be just as priceless as you said.
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