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What Are Your Feelings When Your Good Test Goes Bad?

My feelings? Initially, not good! Just hours after I finished my last post about laughter, a horrendous week of medical surprises began. Including bad medical news received along the way! Condensed version: Two crummy problems. One still unresolved; one that seemed to last forever. Unusual (actually, weird) hearing issues in my left ear started this […]

Hot Weather Is Here! How Good Was Your Preparation?

Mine wasn’t! Extreme hot weather came with a vengeance where I live in Washington state, USA. Prepared for this record-breaking hot weather? Inadequate, to say the least. What about you? In the past, I have shared about emergency preparations for power outages in warm and cold weather. But the emergency of severe heat? Never thought […]

Are You Prepared for an Urgent Medical Need or Emergency?

Unfortunately, we dwellers may be more prone to urgent medical needs or even emergencies. But are we ready? We need to seriously consider medical emergency preparation for invisibly disabled people. I didn’t, and I regretted it. Recently, I experienced a repeated need for urgent medical care. Without this care, the need could easily have turned […]

My Lights Went Out! Was I Prepared?

Power outages and chronically ill people—a disaster or merely an annoyance? The difference? Advance planning. I must be a slow learner because I wrote about this in June 2020 but did not put my advice into action. (Or the steps in the post in December 2015.) So, this led to problems the other night. The […]

Disasters Crop Up Without Warning! Are You Prepared?

Brown rice cooking in the electric cooker! Yum! Breakfast ready soon! Oh no! The lights went out. What happened? It’s a beautiful spring day. No clouds in the sky. But, guess what? I’m not prepared. I have ignored disaster planning for invisibly disabled people, of which I am certainly one. Good news, though. In this […]

Storms of a Different Kind: 4 Steps to Be Prepared

Where will you be when an emergency hits? Have you even thought about it? If you can’t walk and you’re on the 10th floor when a fire happens, how will you get out? If you’re on electric equipment, do you have plans for a power failure? Emergency preparedness for disabled persons is critical. 5:45 pm. […]

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