[QUAD-L] Re: Action Alert: Please CALL Senator Moran's Office NOW to and urge him to s...
In a message dated 7/11/2013 9:52:57 A.M. Central Daylight Time, bdarl...@cdrnys.org writes: TAKE ACTION NOW! CALL Senator Moran at (202) 224-6521. Tell the Senator's staff: I am calling to support Senator Johanns' amendment in the Appropriations Committee to the Department of Labor appropriation that would prevent the Department of Labor from finalizing, implementing or enforcing changes to the Companionship Exemption that would hurt people with disabilities and the workers who provide us with services and supports to live independently in the community! Please urge the Senator to support this amendment. BACKGROUND: The Department of Labor (DOL) has proposed changes in federal labor rules that will hurt people with disabilities and attendants who support our independence. These changes will most seriously impact people who have the most significant disabilities and rely on Medicaid services to live in the community and their attendants. In short, the proposed changes will: - Force seniors and people with disabilities into institutions; - Cut the take-home pay of attendants; - Reduce the attendant workforce; - Force people with disabilities to cut the hours of trusted attendants and bring strangers into their homes; and - Devastate consumer directed attendant programs. Many national disability organizations -- including ADAPT, the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL), and the National Council on Disability (NCD) -- have raised concerns about these proposed changes and urged the Department of Labor to work with the disability community to resolve them. Instead of acknowledging the issue and working with the Disability Community to resolve it, the Department of Labor has continued to push ahead with these changes. (You can learn more about this issue at _www.DOLoffMYbody.org_ (http://www.doloffmybody.org/) ) TODAY, Senator Johanns will be submitting an amendment to the Department of Labor's appropriation that prevents DOL from finalizing, implementing or enforcing these changes until concerns about the proposed rules have been addressed. SO PLEASE TAKE ACTION, call Senator Moran at (202) 224-6521 and tell the staff: I am calling to support Senator Johanns' amendment in the Appropriations Committee to the Department of Labor appropriation that would prevent the Department of Labor from finalizing, implementing or enforcing changes to the Companionship Exemption that would hurt people with disabilities and the workers who provide us with services and supports to live independently in the community! Please urge the Senator to support his amendment. AFTER YOU CALL... Share this alert with family and friends and urge them to call as well. Then email us back and share how your call went. Thank you! Bruce Darling ADAPT
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Re: [QUAD-L] Top 5 things I hate about being a Quad
YEP! I'm with you. -Original Message- From: RONALD L PRACHT r.pra...@sbcglobal.net To: quad-list quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, Jul 11, 2013 2:36 pm Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Top 5 things I hate about being a Quad 5 things i hate about being a quad 1) bowell routines and fingers in my ass 2) feeling like im not part of society as i once was 3) getting blocked in over and over in my van and the other person always has an excuse 4)trying to plan things and something due to quadum gets in the way 5)fighting hard everyday just to have the basic things people take for granted Ron From: todd.daugherty todd.daughe...@gmail.com To: bobbiehumphre...@gmail.com; quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 1:25 PM Subject: RE: [QUAD-L] Top 5 things I hate about being a Quad 6. Everyone wants to tell you about their friends cousins brother in law who is a quad. Do you know him? they always say Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S™ III, an ATT 4G LTE smartphone Original message From: Gmail bobbiehumphre...@gmail.com Date: To: quad-list@eskimo.com Subject: [QUAD-L] Top 5 things I hate about being a Quad These are my top 5 things I hate about being a Quad. 1. Having someone else prepare food for YOU their way. 2. Getting up and in bed when your aid can make it, not when you wish to. 3. People telling me ... how lucky you are not to have to work. 4. Limited selection of clothing. 5. Aging and Quadrum. Bobbie Sent from my iPad
Re: [QUAD-L] Top 5 things I hate about being a Quad
My top 5 would be. 1. Worrying about current and future cuts in caregiver hours and Medicare/MediCal. 2. Not being able to make enough money to be comfortable. 3. Having to depending on others for life's routine crap. 4. Knowing how to do things like mechanical, electrical, construction, engineering, etc. and not being physically able to do it alone. 5. No more normal SEX...Along with other fun activities like off roading, camping, hiking, hunting, rollercoasters, etc.. From: Gmail bobbiehumphre...@gmail.com To: quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 10:58 AM Subject: [QUAD-L] Top 5 things I hate about being a Quad These are my top 5 things I hate about being a Quad. 1. Having someone else prepare food for YOU their way. 2. Getting up and in bed when your aid can make it, not when you wish to. 3. People telling me ... how lucky you are not to have to work. 4. Limited selection of clothing. 5. Aging and Quadrum. Bobbie Sent from my iPad
Re: [QUAD-L] Top 5 things I hate about being a Quad
1. Looking for new aides. 2. Not being able to reach items at the grocery store 3. Can't travel very far. 4. Bladder infection...shit, any infections 5. BOWEL CARE Meredith - Original Message - From: donald scott rollingl...@yahoo.com To: quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 3:50:45 PM Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Top 5 things I hate about being a Quad My top 5 would be. 1. Worrying about current and future cuts in caregiver hours and Medicare/MediCal. 2. Not being able to make enough money to be comfortable. 3. Having to depending on others for life's routine crap. 4. Knowing how to do things like mechanical, electrical, construction, engineering, etc. and not being physically able to do it alone. 5. No more normal SEX...Along with other fun activities like off roading, camping, hiking, hunting, rollercoasters, etc.. From: Gmail bobbiehumphre...@gmail.com To: quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 10:58 AM Subject: [QUAD-L] Top 5 things I hate about being a Quad These are my top 5 things I hate about being a Quad. 1. Having someone else prepare food for YOU their way. 2. Getting up and in bed when your aid can make it, not when you wish to. 3. People telling me ... how lucky you are not to have to work. 4. Limited selection of clothing. 5. Aging and Quadrum. Bobbie Sent from my iPad
[QUAD-L] How to advise a negative disabled neighbor?
Hi All, I have a neighbor, Jill, who lives across the hall and is 57. She has a debilitating progressive illness and is in quite a bit of pain. Yesterday I went to visit her and met and aid that she has now who is a bundle of sunshine and genuinely kind and considerate. Jill has complained about every single aid she has ever had and now she is complaining to me about the aid I just met. I'm trying to tell her how to be positive to get the positive back to make a bad situation better, but she does not see this. Does anybody know of an example or a story I can tell her that will wake her up and see that what she has is great And not to take it for granted? Jill is constantly looking for the greener side of the grass and not seeing how greenIs right now. I tried to tell her that it could be so very much more worse. Jill is so very very close to be entering a nursing home for the rest of her life. This afternoon she had a bad bowel accident in her bathroom and is just devastated and degradingly embarrassed as we all know. I'm thinking that tomorrow would be a better time to talk to her. But I'm asking you all if you can tell me any kind of magic story for her? Bobbie Sent from my iPad
[QUAD-L] Dawn and her van
Hi All, There is another young girl here a Quad C67, Dawn, who is having a lot of problems with her van. The ramp part of her minivan is not working properly so whenever she goes out she… Slam down to the ground, Then she calls my Pete and asks him to lift the ramp up to so she can close the door. She is going to be getting this ramp fixed Tuesday next week, But insists on continuing to go out and use the ramp and the van. Pete and I have talked to her till we are blue in the face about not using the van or the ramp because by using it she is going to make the ramp worse. How do Pete and I help, or not help, these 2 ladies who are in need? Bobbie Sent from my iPad
Re: [QUAD-L] How to advise a negative disabled neighbor?
If the situation is that grave I would practice talking to a bare wall first. A baby chick must first crack the shell of the egg before they can breakout and see the world. Some people just feel comfortable within the shell of their own eggs. But then again, there are differences between neighbors and aids, in relation to taking care of someone's body vs someone's mind. Good Luck Best Wishes In a message dated 7/11/2013 8:23:05 P.M. Central Daylight Time, bobbiehumphre...@gmail.com writes: Hi All, I have a neighbor, Jill, who lives across the hall and is 57. She has a debilitating progressive illness and is in quite a bit of pain. Yesterday I went to visit her and met and aid that she has now who is a bundle of sunshine and genuinely kind and considerate. Jill has complained about every single aid she has ever had and now she is complaining to me about the aid I just met. I'm trying to tell her how to be positive to get the positive back to make a bad situation better, but she does not see this. Does anybody know of an example or a story I can tell her that will wake her up and see that what she has is great And not to take it for granted? Jill is constantly looking for the greener side of the grass and not seeing how greenIs right now. I tried to tell her that it could be so very much more worse. Jill is so very very close to be entering a nursing home for the rest of her life. This afternoon she had a bad bowel accident in her bathroom and is just devastated and degradingly embarrassed as we all know. I'm thinking that tomorrow would be a better time to talk to her. But I'm asking you all if you can tell me any kind of magic story for her? Bobbie Sent from my iPad
Re: [QUAD-L] Big, Big.......Birthday
Happy belated birthday Ron! From: RONALD L PRACHT r.pra...@sbcglobal.net To: quad-list@eskimo.com quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 2:33 PM Subject: [QUAD-L] Big, Big...Birthday I had my 37th birthday yesterday and it was great. Went to a mexican restaurant called el Maguey and got a 37 oz frozen margarita and steaming fajitas. Had my brother, mom and friend there. Only thing missing was my latin x giflfriend that did things for me no other woman has in this world. Im 15 years post and have many challenging days, butyesterday was a good day...went to bed all liquored up, lol. Ron c7
Re: [QUAD-L] Dawn and her van
Are they needing to go out for medical reasons for grocery shopping and so forth? Dana Sent from my iPhone On Jul 11, 2013, at 8:28 PM, Gmail bobbiehumphre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, There is another young girl here a Quad C67, Dawn, who is having a lot of problems with her van. The ramp part of her minivan is not working properly so whenever she goes out she… Slam down to the ground, Then she calls my Pete and asks him to lift the ramp up to so she can close the door. She is going to be getting this ramp fixed Tuesday next week, But insists on continuing to go out and use the ramp and the van. Pete and I have talked to her till we are blue in the face about not using the van or the ramp because by using it she is going to make the ramp worse. How do Pete and I help, or not help, these 2 ladies who are in need? Bobbie Sent from my iPad
Re: [QUAD-L] Dawn and her van
You cant keep letting this woman use you and your husband. She is not a child...if the vans broke you stay home until its fixed. Asking to help once or twice is acceptable, more than that is taking advantage of the situation. If I recall, this woman also uses Pete to be her shovel bitch all winter without a thank you. Disabled or not she needs some lessons in common courtesy. Ron From: Gmail bobbiehumphre...@gmail.com To: quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 8:28 PM Subject: [QUAD-L] Dawn and her van Hi All, There is another young girl here a Quad C67, Dawn, who is having a lot of problems with her van. The ramp part of her minivan is not working properly so whenever she goes out she… Slam down to the ground, Then she calls my Pete and asks him to lift the ramp up to so she can close the door. She is going to be getting this ramp fixed Tuesday next week, But insists on continuing to go out and use the ramp and the van. Pete and I have talked to her till we are blue in the face about not using the van or the ramp because by using it she is going to make the ramp worse. How do Pete and I help, or not help, these 2 ladies who are in need? Bobbie Sent from my iPad
