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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Ativan, Sleep Apnea, and Bad Craziness
Someone searched my blog for Ativan with sleep apnea: DO NOT TAKE ATIVAN IF YOU HAVE SLEEP APNEA. It could kill you. Ativan, also known as Lorazepam and Temesta, is a benzodiazepine; it is a narcotic. It is used for the … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Depression, drugs, Medical care, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, physician
Tagged addiction, antidepressants, Ativan, auto BiPAP, benzodiazepine, BiPAP, bipolar, Conditions and Diseases, CPAP, depression, diagnosis, doctors, Dr. Nasri Ghaly, drugs, FDA, insomnia, Lorazepam, mental illness, narcotic, pharmaceuticals, Physician, Physicians Desk Reference, psychiatric disorders, Psychiatrist, respiratory illness, Sleep apnea, Sleep disorder, suicide
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Who’s On Welfare and What’s On Second?
Okay, here’s the deal. You want to know who’s getting Medicaid and/or Welfare (which is no longer called Welfare). I know that you want to know because you are searching the web to find out. In the past week, 81 … Continue reading
Posted in Government Services, Health Care, Power, advocacy, Poverty, Medicaid
Tagged health care, Governance, values, Medicaid, power, poverty, Onondaga County New York, Dept. of Social Services, Welfare, David Sutkowy, Food Stamps, Post-Standard, County Executive, government, transparency, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, citizen, facts, black people, racist, data, Commissioner, demographic statistics, Temporary Assistance, public, statistics, Mr. Evans, Legal
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Welfare and the Irresponsible Family
Jason lived upstairs from me in HUD subsidized housing. He was paying $11 dollars rent on an apartment that had a fair market value of about $900. His monthly income from Welfare was about $412. The way it works … Continue reading
Posted in disability, Government Services, Health Care, Medicaid, Medicare, Poverty, Values
Tagged administration, breakdown of family, democracy, Dept. of Social Services, disability, family, Food Stamps, God, Governance, Health, HUD, independence, Medicaid, Medicare, Onondaga County, poverty, problem solving, relationships, responsibility, selfish, Social Security Disability Insurance, SSD, St. David's Court, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, United States Constitution, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, values, Welfare
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Going Into the System: Welfare
I was on Welfare. It was the early 1970’s and I had what was diagnosed as “major depression, severe and recurrent.” In fact, it was bipolar depression, type two, but it wouldn’t be correctly diagnosed for another couple decades. I had … Continue reading
Posted in Government Services, Values, disability, Depression, Housing, Poverty
Tagged mental illness, psychiatric disorders, mental disorder, depression, bipolar, values, family, independence, disability, Bipolar disorder, poverty, Onondaga County, Dept. of Social Services, Welfare, Food Stamps, Post-Standard, government subsidies, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, The System, standard of living, families, extended family, nuclear family, poverty line
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Men, Women and Doctors
The sun has risen on a skiff of snow covering the houses and hills outside my window. My home and I are quiet this morning. James Taylor’s “You’ve Got a Friend” accompanies tea. Rainbows are dancing off the prism … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, drugs, God, Health Care, Medical care, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Power, Sex, Spirituality, Values
Tagged antidepressants, Ativan, bipolar, Bipolar disorder, bully, complaince, Conditions and Diseases, disability, doctors, Drug, drugs, God, health care, Lorazepam, Medicine, men, MS, multiple sclerosis, patients, pharmaceutical, pharmaceuticals, Physician, physicians, power, psychologist, relationships, sex, side-effects, sleep, Sleep apnea, Sleep disorder, spirituality, therapist, women
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A Question for Governor Cuomo
Governor Cuomo is coming to Syracuse University to make a speech this morning, and I have just one question I’d like to ask him. When charities ask for money to help the poor, one of the ways we track … Continue reading
Waiting on God’s Pleasure
I hate it when I sleep late! Because I live a good and clean and virtuous life, I’m usually awake between 5:30 and 6:30 a.m., but once in a while I sleep until 7:30 and I hate it because I … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Death, drugs, God, Health Care, Medical care, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Spirituality, Values
Tagged antibiotic, autoimmune, dialysis, God, health care, immune system, Kidney, kidney disease, Macrobid, Medicine, patients, pharmaceuticals, Physician, prime mover, pulmonary fibrosis, stress index
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Welfare Isn’t Welfare Anymore
Temporary Assistance is the term used in New York State for public assistance (welfare) programs. Temporary Assistance provides families and individuals with short-term help while they work toward self-sufficiency. In New York State there are three financial assistance programs: Family Assistance … Continue reading
Posted in Government Services, Poverty
Tagged abuse, assets, automobile, bipolar, Civic Center, County Office Building, David Sutkowy, Dept. of Social Services, disability, Disabled, emergency temporary assistance, eviction, family assistance, food, funeral, HEAP, heat, homeless, income, Intake Unit, Onondaga County New York, public assistance, safety net assistance, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, utilities, violence, Welfare
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Peace, Violence and Justice Defined
I have this really smart young woman working for me as a home health aide. We have to pay her fifty percent above the going rate in order to keep her working (brains cost extra) but while she cooks and … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability rights, God, Government Services, Poverty, Power, Values
Tagged Activism and Peace Work, activist, anger, communication, conflict, definitions, fairness, Governance, harmony, injustice, Joan Rivers, justice, law, Martin Luther King, Nonviolence, Peace, poverty, power, problem solving, public tranquility, selfishness, Unionville High School, values, violence
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Repost: Sandy Creek Woman Charged . . .
Sandy Creek woman charged in domestic washing machine attack By Douglass Dowty / The Post-Standard Sandy Creek, NY — A 19-year-old woman is accused of attacking her roommate’s washing machine with her foot and a knife this weekend in Sandy … Continue reading
