http://www.gromo.org "This Is What Democracy Looks Like!" Sat, 16 Jul 2011 01:59:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.gromo.org/2011/07/sen-mccaskill-joins-gro-for-caring-across-generations-d-c-news-conference/#comment-2433 Deborah E. Calvin Sat, 16 Jul 2011 01:59:49 +0000 http://www.gromo.org/?p=135#comment-2433 Without Medicaid, I would not have survived the catastrophic illness I had for two year in 2006 to 2008. I was stricken with a MRSA infection in my spine requiring 2 major surgeries a week apart, reconstruction of my spine, and one and one half years on Vancomycin with the addition of other IV antibiotics and Rifampin, an oral antibiotic. I had to learn to walk again, which was a triumph, because after the surgery I couldn't even turn myself without the nurses' help. I was in the worst nursing home in Columbia. My PICC line (for the antibiotics) got infected once (I had a total of SIX!) and I had to sent to the ER immediately! There was a streak going straight up the vein towards my heart! One time my daughter and her husband came to visit came to visit me, and they found me almost unconscious. My daughter went out to get the nurse, and demanded that she call 911. The ambulance came for me, and I ended up in the Med-ICU for three days, where I slowly regained consciousness. After two more weeks on the floor, (they found a fracture in a weight-bearing part of my pelvis that was excruciating to try to walk on and put me on strict bedrest). The next six months I was determined to make it, regardless of what I had to go through. I had run out of room for PICC lines but still need my IV Vancomycin and Cephalosporin IV, so off I went to the hospital for. . .a POWERLINE! Like a central line but less likely to get infected. To continue treatment with the antibiotics and my bloodtest that indicated my level inflammation was coming down slowly! This is only the tip of the iceberg of the tests I went through to diagnose and treatment this awful, awful infection that had such a choke hold on me. Without my Medicaid, I don't know if I would even gotten in the door. But would now be scattered over the Lake of the Ozarks, or sitting in an urn probably in my daughter's closet. Please let Wall Street go! For once! For twice! And my SSI? exactly what am I supposed to live on? You "public servants" should be ashamed of yourselves! I wasn't always sick. I was a good nurse, a very good nurse. And then when I had to go no disability, I did a lot of volunteer work on the days I felt well to do so. And now you want to leave me on top of Niagara Falls in a barrel, while you watch, laughing from the shore? Without Medicaid, I would not have survived the catastrophic illness I had for two year in 2006 to 2008. I was stricken with a MRSA infection in my spine requiring 2 major surgeries a week apart, reconstruction of my spine, and one and one half years on Vancomycin with the addition of other IV antibiotics and Rifampin, an oral antibiotic. I had to learn to walk again, which was a triumph, because after the surgery I couldn’t even turn myself without the nurses’ help.
I was in the worst nursing home in Columbia. My PICC line (for the antibiotics) got infected once (I had a total of SIX!) and I had to sent to the ER immediately! There was a streak going straight up the vein towards my heart! One time my daughter and her husband came to visit came to visit me, and they found me almost unconscious. My daughter went out to get the nurse, and demanded that she call 911. The ambulance came for me, and I ended up in the Med-ICU for three days, where I slowly regained consciousness. After two more weeks on the floor, (they found a fracture in a weight-bearing part of my pelvis that was excruciating to try to walk on and put me on strict bedrest). The next six months I was determined to make it, regardless of what I had to go through. I had run out of room for PICC lines but still need my IV Vancomycin and Cephalosporin IV, so off I went to the hospital for. . .a POWERLINE! Like a central line but less likely to get infected. To continue treatment with the antibiotics and my bloodtest that indicated my level inflammation was coming down slowly! This is only the tip of the iceberg of the tests I went through to diagnose and treatment this awful, awful infection that had such a choke hold on me. Without my Medicaid, I don’t know if I would even gotten in the door. But would now be scattered over the Lake of the Ozarks, or sitting in an urn probably in my daughter’s closet. Please let Wall Street go! For once! For twice!
And my SSI? exactly what am I supposed to live on? You “public servants” should be ashamed of yourselves! I wasn’t always sick. I was a good nurse, a very good nurse. And then when I had to go no disability, I did a lot of volunteer work on the days I felt well to do so. And now you want to leave me on top of Niagara Falls in a barrel, while you watch, laughing from the shore?

]]> http://www.gromo.org/2010/09/big-banks-predatory-investment-exposed/#comment-14 Grass Roots Groups: Big Banks are quietly profiting from payday lending | Dangerous Intersection Fri, 17 Sep 2010 03:17:01 +0000 http://www.gromo.org/?p=61#comment-14 [...] group called Grass Roots Organizing (GRO) held a rally in front of the Bank of America Building in downtown St. Louis, announcing that [...] [...] group called Grass Roots Organizing (GRO) held a rally in front of the Bank of America Building in downtown St. Louis, announcing that [...]

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