Showing posts with label 26th Disability Blog Carnival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 26th Disability Blog Carnival. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

FOCUS, TRINITY

(Bill David Barnett, age 2.5, and Maggie, age 5, trailer park in Pecos, Texas, summer 1961)

Today my little brother Bill would have turned 51.

Which means he's been dead almost 9 years. Can't quite understand that.

He was waiting for health insurance to kick in at his new job: We'd watched how medical costs had starved our family when we were kids. So instead of being saddled with a "pre-existing condition", he lay down alone on that green-and-white striped couch and watched TV as a heart attack rolled on into cardiac tamponade and he bled out into his chest.

Universal health care for every human being, no questions asked, without profit linked to medical choices. Now. Get rid of any leader who caves, no matter what other distractions they toss up. The alternative is ongoing pointless death.

[Cross-posted at Group News Blog.]

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Thursday, November 8, 2007

I'M MENTIONED AS PART OF THE 26TH DISABILITY BLOG CARNIVAL

(Maggie in the rehab unit, 6 August 2006, with visitors and friends: Back row, L-R, Heather Burmeister, famous poet who came to visit day after day; Elisa Ross, painter and former coworker of Maggie's -- Heather and Elisa are a couple and now living in Portland, OR; Sarah Jarvis, Maggie's daughter; Front row, L-R, Maggie and another resident of the unit who had just had her hip replaced, Ms. Huff, who was utterly delightful company and my table-mate at each meal)

Hey, ya'll -- another honor!! -- The 26th Disability Blog Carnival just went up and my post My Knees (Part One): Diagnosis is recommended. Check out the carnival at Pitt Rehab blog, much excellent reading there.

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