Time has come

The UM Lupus Education-Support Program was a success. I feel we had just the right amount of patients and "educators". It was a night which may end up being the first of many or it will be it's "Fall Series" as it it is and that is all? In any direction I am feeling very fulfilled by the looks on the people's faces as they heard words of hope ans support. I saw people feel a kin-ship to one another and an exchange of numbers. This is all good. I also spoke with two women who are focused on the areas of health disparities or the under served in health care. The fact is that people of color, especially African Americans, have a higher prevalence of lupus than white Euros, YET, they often do not get diagnosed due to lack of medical care within inner cities and rural areas. When I say "Those" it makes me cringe like you can not imagine. It makes me sick to say that if you are black in a large city with little income or poor in a rural area you may not have insurance or the ability to find a Dr. to help you find a diagnoses, which is very, very , very expensive !!! That word is in and of itself a fear mechanism to tell people who do not have insurance an opportunity to NOT get that health check up or labs to see why they may feel sick. It is well known that education and health care is at a low spot when it comes to people of lower income, single mothers, single fathers, rural farmers, youth who are in school with young children, elderly who do not have helpers, Blacks, Native Americans, The poor and Homeless, Latinos and all those "Others" who have no insurance or the ability to get health care for whatever the reason. Many middle income whites in the "Burbs" are feeling the same issues. it is a problem we all face. I saw this more so than ever and I want to do something yet feel helpless. Some folks will fall through the cracks and that Su__s. I feel hope because we touched a few and they will touch a few and so it goes. It seems to me the way to health-well being and peace is through offering it to others while staying true to our own highest health and well being. We all do our part!

On that note my honey is home (happily) and I am cooking and plucking from the garden and getting ready to embark on a canning experience from the harvests. Lord let me not poison. I have been very fearful of canning and so I have done pickling and other forms of preserving.........But now I venture into what I knew as a child. Canning. The freezer has been our friend and now I must put up cans of food in the cellar. I feel a need to know and accomplish this as an adult. As a child I only did the "work" not the actual cleaning, preparing,sanitizing etc.
I promise not to give Christmas-Solstice presents if they are not totally safe. You probably will get something with alcohol or vinegar. SAFE!!

Be Well !!!!