So I crawl out of my hole this Am to be buried in
drifts of whiteness, so much wind your face stung just to shovel five feet through a five foot drift, hey this is New England, we are proud of our toughness, passed down from generations of rebels, many who started the itch that began the revolution! And we stand on the cusp of a new revolution, one to create fairness in healthcare, equal care for all, not just the rich, or the very poor, just the sick and the equal, as we are all equal.....whether its Hepc or another battle, the treatment of all is not a varying standard anyone fair minded person can accept unless its the same for all. Many have to wait months or years to get seen, one might think its conspiratorial , waiting for the dreaded low life to die for lack of funding and yet the CEO's are making so many millions of dollars to sign some papers. Perhaps they are smart? Perhaps lucky, I don't really know. I am certain there is a great deal of unfairness in this most unusual plan, capitalism, greed, free enterprise some would call it! and be so proud.....our country, the brave and the free!, and that we are....but so many are trapped, I am in a quandary as to how to define it. So many hate Obama, and his first effort to equal the rights of so many with eliminating the pre-existing clauses and trying somehow to make sense of a stubborn system, bought and paid for by free enterprise and the big, very big money companies that own most of us in so many ways. No my sweet friends I am not rebelling here, I don't even have the answers, all I know if someone doesn't make those first baby steps....to change things, change won't happen. We seek safe harbor, try to get the water level to stay put, find its equilibrium. And yet somehow without stirring the pot once in a while progress isn't made....women stay repressed, Gay people are dragged to their death, children abused and worse, and folks die for lack of health care. There is much to piss and moan about but we have made so much progress!....So much!!!! There is always more to do, lets not let the dust settle into accepting the promises of the manipulative who have only pockets to concern them, we cant leave anyone behind! Humans are only as holy and good as the last breath they took to smile and help another. Kat Kerr and so many in the Hep C community never stop raising a voice for all of us, share the knowledge, share the stories you have lived, wherever you can, do not accept stigmatism, you aren't guilty of anything! Our stories, and so many deserve the strength it has taken to get us to this place! To keep breathing loving, finding ways to help a friend, and caring. If nothing else we have all learned a deeper level of caring than we ever knew we had. Hug yourself you are all very brave warriors even in your darkest moments.....so hear my roar across this great continent and beyond......put your politics aside, focus on the battles that matter, eliminate hate and prejudice and stand for equal healthcare and equal rights for so many who stand as sheep, feeling trapped by a very unsettling system......margi ponders life, and silly me cant move my left arm for the shovelling.....love you all keep fighting it is for more than our own little worlds we fight for....its a biggie !
Love Margi & "OOB"
