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Re: On The Wards » Blog Archive » Image of A True Airhead (Pneumocephalus)

Jodith — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 22:52:34 -0000

I have to admit, pneumocephalus is something I have never even thought about existing before. Hydrocephalous and of course bleeds in the brain. But air just kind of blows my mind.

Re: Democrats versus Republicans

Jodith — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:50:58 -0000

Do you have any concept of how many employers do not offer health insurance? You've always had health insurance...well bully for you. There are hundreds of thousands of people (at least) that work who do not receive health insurance through their jobs, and for the most part, they don't make enough money to be able to buy private health insurance. And, of course, if they have health problems to start with or have a child with health problems, they often can't get anything but catastrophic coverage, and that at and extremely high price.

I would go into business for myself, except that I can't afford the health insurance. I have chronic health issues, so no private insurer will cover me. I'm forced to work at jobs I hate in order to maintain my health insurance. And I'm lucky enough to have skills that can demand a job that provides health insurance. Think about all the janitors and food service workers and others like them who make minimum wage and don't get health insurance through their jobs. It's not that they don't work. Hell, I'm willing to be they work harder than either of us do. Do they not deserve to have health insurance?

Re: Democrats versus Republicans

Jodith — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:12:09 -0000

If people can't afford health insurance, how do you expect them to be able to afford to pay directly for health care, even if you can bring the costs down? If a child needs an appendectomy, how would a parent making minimum wage afford to pay for surgery and hospitialization? How does someone who is chronically ill pay for multiple medications, even cheap ones, when they are on disability?

And what you said was, "GIVE THESE PEOPLE JOBS SO THEY CAN GET THEIR OWN INSURANCE for crying out loud." I pointed out that many of these people already have jobs. Jobs aren't the point. The problem is that their jobs don't come with insurance and they can't afford private insurance. If you're on welfare, no problem becauase you probably qualify for medicaid. It's the working poor that need the help so desperately, and that is who universal health care is aimed at.

One thing we can do immediately to help bring down health care costs is to eliminate insurance companies. It takes so many people to manage insurance billing. That's a huge cost for medical care right there. And, of course, the majority of those insurance companies are for-profit, so we're also paying the cost of the money right into their stock holders pockets. Not to mention the stockholders of all of those for-profit hospitals and clinics out there...and there's a lot more of them than you would think.

Take the bureaucracy out of health care, which is mostly caused by the insurance companies, put everything under one payer so all rules are the same, and you take a big chunk out of the cost of health care.

Re: Democrats versus Republicans

Jodith — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:25:26 -0000

By saying we need to get rid of insurance companies, I'm saying we need a single payer system.

And again, you're going off with the "get them a job so they'll have health care" and that doesn't solve the problem. People can be employed and not have health care and not be able to afford it no matter how cheap it is.

If you are employed making a poverty level wage, you are barely going to be able to put a roof over your head and food on the table. That's why they call it poverty. Where are you going to get the extra money to pay for even cheap healthcare? How are you going to get vaccinations for your kids or yearly checkups or antibiotics for infections? Are you going to choose to not pay your rent and become homeless? Are you not going to eat this week? Which one of your kids do you starve so the rest can have health care?

It may seem like I'm being melodramatic, but I'm truly not. These are the kinds of decisions that face the working poor every day in America. If you don't make enough money to just live on, things like health care become optional until your too sick to be able to get by with an inexpensive office visit.

The death rate from treatable cancers is much higher for those living in poverty (note that I did not say unemployed) than for any one else. It's because these people can't afford to go to a doctor until it's too late. They are just barely ekeing out a survival. And there's millions of them out there. The working poor. They get up every day and work their asses off, often at multiple jobs, just to keep a roof over their head and food on the table. It's not about getting them jobs. They have jobs. It's about providing them something that their jobs won't provide for them.

Re: Doctor, Doctor, Gimme The News

Jodith — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:36:47 -0000

I'm like you, I cough all the time, mostly due to allergies. But it drives my husband crazy. He always wants me to go to the doctor for every cough.

Re: Who should be in-charge of the money Husband or wife?

Jodith — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:01:50 -0000

Pffft...and what business does a man have with his wife's/girlfriend's money?

My opinion is that whoever handles money the best should be the one who handles the money. If it's her, then she should. If it's him, then he should.

My dad couldn't handle money to save his life, so my mom took care of all the finances. I, however, take after my father, so my husband is the one who handles the bills and the money. *looks askance at Dave* And just for your information...*I'm* the one who brings home the bacon. The husband stays home and takes care of things. We both do what we do best for our home and relationship and this works best for us.

Re: How to: Be an uber blogger, by Cory Doctorow

Jodith — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:23:47 -0000

I think this was the single best advice I've seen for improving your blog. He talked about all of the things that totally piss me off as a blog reader and that I try to avoid on my own blog.

I knew I liked Cory Doctorow for a reason, and not just because I read "Little Brother" in one sitting.

*laughs* and I sound like such a fangirl, there, but I really did love the interview. Thanks for bringing it to us.

Re: The American President

Jodith — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:19:49 -0000

Ahhhh...I forget how much I love that movie until I see that seen again. I love Aaron Sorkin! Love, love, love Aaron Sorkin. I've never seen anything by him that I didn't love. Sports Night, West Wing, Studio 60, they're all great. If you haven't watched them, go get them.

Re: Question of the Day

Jodith — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:44:14 -0000

Canasta! I never played it until I met my husband. His family has played Canasta since he was a kid, and they taught me to play. It's a real blast. We play whenever his family visits.

Re: How to: Be an uber blogger, by Cory Doctorow

Jodith — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:23:47 -0000

Re: Untitled Document

Jodith — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:38:14 -0000

As it turns out, I've already written 2 posts about the holiday season on my admin support site:
http://administrativearts.com/2008/12/01/holiday-...
http://administrativearts.com/2008/11/25/managing...

Obviously, these two are about dealing with the holidays in the office setting.

Re: Untitled Document

Jodith — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:16:24 -0000

I had this happen once when I ordered from Amazon. I called the company and they e-mailed a return form to mail it back and credited my account as soon as they received it.

Re: My Site Dressed in Thesis

Jodith — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:00:47 -0000

I have to admit, it is a very pretty site. Someday when I have more money then I have now, I'm going to get a premium theme. I don't like to pay someone to customize for me, though, because doing it myself is how I'm teaching myself CSS *laughs*. I learn by doing.

Re: Beating Dunbars Number

Jodith — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:53:30 -0000

Thanks for this article. Thinking of my relationships as subsets makes since, especially in Twitter, since I have so many interests and people to keep track of in all of them. I've bookmarked this to be able to take a more in depth look and do some thinking on it later.

Re: Introducing Richard Millington and “FeverBee”

Jodith — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:59:53 -0000

I've added Feverbee to my blog reader. I'm really excited about this one. Community building is exactly the next step I want to take for my blog. I'm trying to build numbers now, and want to grow my blog into a real community for administrative support folks. I'm hoping Richard can help me with that.

Re: Introducing ‘Sketch War’

Jodith — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:23:15 -0000

Sorry, Chuck, I tried to follow this one, but the most recent entry is just too much. It's insulting the disabled and fat people. I was enjoying it up to this point, but I had to unsubscribe after that post.

Re: Google and me!

Jodith — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:11:02 -0000

I have to admit, I do only minimal SEO work on my blog, and I get very targetted search engine traffic. I get very little traffic from search engines that isn't directly targeted at my content. At the moment, I'm getting 10-15% of my traffic from search engines, but that's mainly because I've been using Entrecard. If I don't include those stats, it's a much larger percentage of my overall traffic.

So I have to agree, write good content and the readers will come.

Re: The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook

Jodith — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:46:38 -0000

Great article! Thanks so much. This is definitely getting a tweet out and a stumble.

I'd add another twitter no-no. When I follow you, don't DM me with a welcome note that is actually just a request to visit your blog or website.

Also, if you are going to @reply to everyone that follows you, I'm probably going to unfollow you, because I really don't care who all is following you. I'm currently actively following over 200 folks. I don't have time to wade through your spam.

And if I'm not following you, but you're following me, I don't need to know about it. I check my followers page at least once a day and often 2 or 3 times. I always check out the folks who follow me and if I like your tweets, or even think I might like your tweets, I'll follow you back, at least for a few days so I can see if I really want to follow you.

Re: The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook

Jodith — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:58:39 -0000

I have to say that I like the @replies on Twitter if it's not an ongoing back and forth. I'll often click through to the other persons account to see the other side of the conversation and have found some great people to follow that way.

However, when it's an ongoing conversation, you're absolutely right. Take it someplace else. There was someone on lastnight who had an hour long conversation with someone on twitter. Needless to say, I'm not following her any longer.

Re: Heads or Hearts

Jodith — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:56:15 -0000

While most people tend to peg me as a "T" on the Myers Briggs, I'm actually a pretty strong "F" (INFJ).

For years I tried to always do everything from the head. I was raised by a strong "ST", so I always thought that was how you were supposed to be. It was after I took the Myers Briggs in my late 20s that I realized that I just wasn't the person I was trying so hard to be. I devoted my 30s to figuring out who I really was inside and what I really wanted out of life.

I'm still working on finding my path in life (I'm 46 now), but I'm finding the path much less rugged than it was when I was trying to follow someone else's path. I'm much happier on my path, more willing to embrace what I know to be truth instead of always questioning myself, and more willing to work hard to get somewhere now that I have a better sense of where I'm actually going in life.