Medicare for All Y'all?!

I dispute. Rosenberger never helped somebody walk for the first time I've had that privilege many times through our organization. Standing with hope when my wife Gracie gave up both of her legs follow this horrible Rick that she had as a teenager and she try to save them for years and if it just wouldn't work out. And finally she relinquished him and thought wow this is that I'm now heavy legs. The more what can God do with that and then she had this vision for use in prosthetic limbs as a means of sharing the gospel to put legs on her fellow amputees and that's what we been doing now since 2005 was standing with hope. We work in the West African country of Ghana and you can be a part of that through supplies through supporting team members through supporting the work that were doing over there.

You could designate a limb. There's all kinds of ways that you can be a part of giving the gift that keeps on walking and standing with hope.com would you take a moment ago understanding with hope.com and see how you can give they go walking and leaping and praising God. You can be a part of that standing with the hope of the caregiver. Love family relations number one show we are glad you are with this. It was about is how you are you feeling you may be thinking here of an aging parent. You may think of somebody with special needs child, or was it a traumatic injury. Maybe somebody who is dealing with an addiction issue. Alcoholism all those are chronic impairments and wherever there's a chronic impairment. There is a caregiver. And so this show is focused on you that individual who was doing this right now putting yourself between the loved one. And even worse disaster hold up okay. If not, let's talk about if you're hold up okay.

Let's talk about that and you could offer some things that are helping you with. Either way, this is a time for you to call is a caregiver were live 877-655-6755 877-655-6755 and you can be a part of the show and we love to have you here. You could also follow so long on Facebook live and hope for the caregiver on Facebook. Please feel free to to login for that and the podcast we put this on the later you could find that it hope the caregiver.com. The podcast is free. We try to do as much a week as we possibly can to make it available for you so you can have access to just somebody that understands what you're going through is a caregiver. My name is Peter Rosenberger and I'm the host of the show on the caregiver. Now I'm in my 34th year through medical nightmare 80 surgeries, both legs and dictated hundred doctors, 12 hospital seven.

Insurance companies will over now $11 million less than the journey of my wife and I've been with her nail lo these many decades I learned a few things along the way he thinks it will be meaningful to fellow caregivers, things that you can avoid if possible.

One of my books is called seven caregiver landmines and how you can avoid them. You know there are a lot of landmines out there that could trip us up as a character.

Some of those are excessive weight gain. Failure to see your own doctor, isolation, loss of identity, guilt and fear, thinking that it's all up to you. Any that tracking with you that kind of say it. Oh yeah, that's me.

Well, we all hit the I hit them often in on this.

Why look the way I look, but you don't have to.

You can avoid this spring, looking the way you look, you know, I'm loving. He's the baron of the board to seldom sell the Earl of engineering. He's my sidekick he's the manager sits his clock back 37 minutes. He's John Butler, the count of mighty disco everyone. Thank you so much for fantastic intro as always and I I set my clock back 37 minutes because that is just such times on this just the way you roll is my master.

All right, listen, I gotta get this off my chest. I might just calm down.

I for three hours normally get a little getting the politics of the show and there's a reason for that young men were close to it and gently speaking, that would be doubled up with the gentle intention is worth close to it okay because we have a lot of people running for president right now who wanting Medicare for all or I'm in the salvage Medicare for all y'all that in the care for all y'all like. I was a very little but but here's the deal. This is a true story this happened to us. My wife, who is disabled is on Medicare and you know I think Medicare has some really wonderful things about their some very good things about Medicare but it's not just the plan itself, it's the people who run the plan, you know, like when I for example you move the Seinfeld episode about renting a car, he called and had a reservation for the carpeting. Keep the reservation ahead.

You know they knew how to take the risk. Keep the reservation which is really the most important part of the resume.

Sure sure okay so the car itself when you rent the car is fine. There's really nothing wrong with that but the people who have the rental car procedure sometimes can get a little bit wonky will imagine that with Medicare arming this the government when it runs something when's the last thing about your best experience at the DMV and this is okay. It's always good to be that way but know is that there is a there is a very real danger of bigger it is the more cumbersome it is to deal with.

So by the time you actually get to the products and services that your contracting your exhausted from dealing with all the craziness of getting to the products and services and you can't fire know and so I've Gracie was on the phone. She had been trying to handle. We moved it on so we moved and she called the bride and told everybody we move they said no problem she got another letter she called beginning September said no probably got it. It's okay. Your good.

We got a letter in the mail and she opened it up on Friday night it came to our new address and it said you moved and you didn't call us and we haven't heard from you since September, which by the way, that was the time she called and canceled part of her plan with Medicare and I'm thinking, and so she was on the phone for three hours on Saturday.

Then I got on the phone for an hour and 1/2 after that that I was on the phone this morning with the before church for over an hour and we still have it.

Got it all worked out. And we were transferred to all these different folks and it was just really unpleasant link really unpleasant in soliciting these politicians out there say Medicare for all and I'm thinking do you have to live in of that system.

When you have a problem do you call and get through quickly or do you have to go through the phone tree of death and this is what concerns me a little bit and so I would. I would ask you all as caregivers are endless by way feel free to weigh in on this 877-655-6755 877-655-6755 will get a regular schedule program but I gotta get this off, but you still because it was really corking and this is personal and it was very personal and I was like this happen to you.

This happened to me and it's it it in this morning and I had to go around and apologize to everyone in the church because I got up to leave the music this morning and I said look, I'm a little bit gnarly here and and you'll just have to be family, but one should not spend it out over an hour talking to Medicare before coming to church league music write that down just right.

Okay. Just put that down somewhere after the service.

Yeah, I give you my mind who how to how to be a good no good godly person to the other, the one email I don't make maybe I was learning how to be a good godly person to the Medicaid but I will say good God a lot and I was just I was like you know I was like, this kid, this is not brain surgery and and and so I got to spend some time with it tomorrow. Working on now and I don't think about you, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and you know all this, people Medicare for all Medicare but but these people live under Medicare, and they brought my wife my wife. Now this is this is where it gets personal.

My wife Gracie all the things that I just read about that she has to deal with. They brought her to tears.

She was so frustrated with the brought her to tears and I'm watching these people on the stage all time but we can have Medicare for all and I'm thinking you know it was it. It's that we need to think through this because it's one thing for these politicians to say these things is nothing for them to live under the same things they say you know and I don't see them doing that I see them having what they want to have for themselves and the rest of us don't you eat this and that our mercy will decide whether or not will let you microwave it, you know and and I'm thinking we can do better than this competition breeds innovation and Shakespeare said that brevity is the soul of wit and when you call the Medicare helpline hotline election stuff. I want you to report back to me. How much brevity you experience, you go and how much wit you experience any interest that they're not good people trying to do their job but they are hamstrung by bureaucracy bureaucracies can't help themselves. They foster bureaucracy in the they live they live to 22 perpetuate themselves, the royal family and and in Great Britain they live only to perpetuate themselves allegedly way out there did not there now, a phone call from some loyalists. The crown comes on this not to get the part. But if it sees it. The crowd thought that at the related but you don't. But bureaucracies and I think sometimes the suite is with everything and to be fair, to be fair, churches can be that way to any city or not you yeah wherever two or three gathered there's problems and you know and so but but the federal government just happens to be the biggest bureaucracy in town and so it's going to be cumbersome.

So as you listen to these people running for president who promising, promising, promising you the moon asking first off, are they audit that me that's that's me that they should not dislike when Obama care was passed, they they didn't have to be audible in public ear okay and so they're not. They're not making themselves live by the same rules that the rest of us do. And so I struggle with that a lot and I wonder if you do as caregivers you know if you're taking care of somebody who's on Medicare or maybe you are to with disability or whatever. Do you struggle with and it's very it's it's it's cumbersome. So I just want to get that off my chest, and this is this is the thing about this is is not that kind of what was right and info correct me if I'm wrong is what what I'm hearing from you is not that this does not need to exist. It's that it needs to.

It does not need to be the only option. And yeah so you are it is more nuanced thing if it's the only gig in town then there will be no incentive for it to be better exactly there's no competition them at the very slow process of voting.

You know, yeah. And so are.

I'm a big fan of competition in a free market system.

I think that we've gotten away from a lot of that in this country and in and in that I listen these politicians out there promising. Elizabeth Warren is thinking of her things will be like $52 trillion and to be fair, to be fair to her policy. Her plan. I think that if if you divide about 1/1024. It'll I'm here I'm with you I powers to 1024. This habits is it's by no more where that is making but you only get that way because of violent glad to be careful of politicians who promise you things. First off, it's not coming out of their wallet. Okay, let's let's be real clear on that, and I'm a big fan of of of asking these folks what did you pay in taxes is if you want us to pay more than want you volunteering you can write a check to the IRS*learning to write a check to the IRS. Did you know that John, I think you can. I think don't think you can facilitate dear Iris, I would like to pay more taxes because I think we should pay more of the big it is in the million is love. Bernie Sanders and it but they're not doing it and so do you, have to wonder is that same principle going on with healthcare and also am a little bit suspect of people who promise a lot about healthcare and talk a lot about healthcare but have no skin in the game of healthcare. You know that's just me. Call me silly silly but I like to hear from people who actually have spent some time in this and I look at all the political figures out there that are talking a lot about healthcare how many of them physicians. How many of them are nurses. How many of them have worked in the hospital having them have been consumers of any kind of lengthy credible experience have special needs child, or whatever.

You know that that's kind of thing and I and they may very well have these experiences and have and have some really good ideas about it. Hearing about it would be really nice and would lend some credibility to. I think it does not think it's okay. I think the effect that would be important. You know but but don't talk about it.

You know is if you somehow magically set around in the in the teachers lounge and came up with a great idea, but we can do if we were in charge. I really like that metaphor in the teachers lounge. That's yeah II give them honest people spent a lot of time there in the faculty lounge and there. This is what we should think we think we should do and yet are the actually out there doing it and are they spending time in it so I'm sorry I'm a cattle ranch a little bit but it was it's been pressing on my brain and I watch this and I listen to it I can help in dealing with it for the past 48 hours.

As I have and I have a we've logged in a lot of hours doing it and and this is the reality a lot of caregivers face dealing with interest. Given that I have dealt with Gracie's change policy seven times since we've been married, and that's been since 86 and she said she's never had a gap in coverage in anything and and that's that's saying something in Utah about pre-existing conditions. She's got but and and I have worked with insurance companies of a fault with them of peeled stuff and all that but the thing is, I've always had going for me with insurance companies is that they work.

They tended to be somewhat local. You know okay if I was there. The mother stated division by state right most ground and so I can least they were within driving distance to be able to go down there and rant and rave, but when you did with Medicare. I mean you've lost that community connectivity it's too big it's so big that you will hereby often yeah and so your reference will pay you but but but it's so big and so I wonder to myself you know if if a lot of the caregivers are struggling with this and what they've done about it.

I have I have been successful in this industry you have of dealing with this thing with Gracie, but it also I have a quite a bit of white. Here and you and and it's it it will age it, it will frustrate you and so 488-776-5567 55 877-655-6755. This is hope for the caregiver. This is the show for the family caregiver real quickness to our caregiver tip of the day to. It is just audit me like a pack of dogs on a three legged cat. Our caregiver tip of the day is it. Oh I'm totally changes of your art. We put the Medicare thing out there. John we done it. Let's put it in the box was movable.

Okay thank you typewritten patient breathes a sigh of relief.

Lord help this man, but our caregiver tip of the day and this came about without talking to a fellow caregiver this week you might like never run this by trying to do anything. But you know you really down I is I want John to come in here now the caregiver tip of the day is right. It down right it down right and by that I don't necessarily mean just a list of things if you're feeling something if you're dealing with something, write it down. Journal write your thoughts down if you've learned something if you failed at something right. It down. I'm a big fan of just writing it down and and that's how I came to write my blogs and my books and so forth just started jotting down enough a lot of caregivers who want to tell their story and and they should tell the story. I don't know that Miss no one reads it exactly, but I but II would I would really encourage you to write it down. Just it, even if you just put a carrier post a note with you and then you have a stack of post whole of stuff on okay okay remember me cut him right so a stack of post is certainly better than nothing.

However, I know I know I right right so I carry around a really I went out and shopped for my notebook that I jot things down and because something is very near and dear to my heart I write things down constantly throughout the day and this is this is something that that help me out. I don't follow it exactly, but it's all bullet journaling on the figure heard of this I have not that it sounds. This is this is good.

Absolutely it is is just as a way of organizing your thoughts and kind of half shorthand, but not really. It's it's fairly simple there's that you you put it.by certain things you cross things off in certain ways. You can just make up your own way of doing it. Of course, but if you take a look at Google bullet journaling and see kind of philosophy behind it and it's a lot of what you're talking about is just write it down. You can be an odd thought. It can be your shopping list it just your birds is just by your today what amendment do today to you know find fulfillment under make my life easier accomplish tasks. Or maybe, maybe you heard a point or quote or song where the Scripture verse something that meant something to you. You don't want to forget and you maybe wanted she wanted a little bit later exactly in his eye annotation for that. There's a good thing. So I encourage you to check out bullet journaling yeah okay well I think that's and that's our caregiver tip of the day, write it down because you know what you're going through these things in life and you know it's it's okay to leave a trail not only for yourself but for others, and in it so it's okay to do that. In fact, I would encourage it.

A lot of folks it is very cathartic to be able to write things down or sometimes people get little bit you.

You overestimate what this is going to be. You don't have to write the next big book.

Okay, if you want to, that's fine. But don't put that kind of pressure on yourself. But if you do find out writing that you're writing a book. Did you that that this thing is compiled of this thing has some value, you don't then there are people out there.

The be glad to look with youth rudeness and help you edit and see if you got something there. Here's another thing you may not be very good at writing things down. Okay I get that but you could always record it and then there are services out there.

You can use to transcribe it and ended with her. Not very expensive so then you have a written journal of it. Even if you don't feel comfortable just writing down versus root laborious for you rider.

Whatever but you can always record it into it and send that recording to places that will transcribe it and then I'll send you got it written and audio journey and you never know. Your grandkids may want to know what it was like for you to do what you're doing right executive that may be important to them, so you know that something that that I would encourage all of you is caregiver subdued. Your thoughts are important and sadly in the journey we have is caregivers those thoughts get somehow pushed to the back back of the rooms they overlooked. Yeah and and and and I would encourage you to the more you write down.

By the way, see you doing two things.

One amuses your your organizing your thoughts within your also training yourself to let your heart speak freely. Caregivers lose yourself in someone else's story. What if you write your own.

You see what I'm going with that. So that way you're not losing yourself in this that you did.

You can try to kill him. He people vast about you as a caregiver over the last month versus your level. That's the kind of the way it works for us caregivers we get, overlooked, but if you put in and that's not your blanks. With this we take control of our own story and part of that is just writing it down, write it down and maybe maybe you like to write poetry may be just like to Journal maybe just like John Stott bullet drink maybe you just want to write down a particular phrase or Scripture that you heard that you have some some something that you that just speaks to you or whatever. And this is this is the other thing that you talk about this an awful lot and this and this can kind of be a two-for-one special on the caregiver tip of the day. If you're writing it down is doing the same thing as just waiting. You have to stop active waiting. And and why am I talking. Waiting is an action step by the way, but you know you know where I heard this though.

I'll give you credit, you can forget about our you know who heard this from Jeff Foxworthy and he carries a notepad with him all the time, but he's always right and things to strike. It was kind of funny and I started doing that to just things are just funny because I look back at it makes me laugh.

The wife says things sometimes they're just hilarious and I write those things down because there funny I meet, I may just do a whole collection of Gracie's amici was look at some of their they shook and she said they look like they just struck the stupid no idea where she gave up with that but I just wrote them. They were not cursed with an overabundance of intelligence will just act like you just struck was stupid and end of this was what she said you don't bite a gift horse in the mouth sheet she mixes up a bit of foresight when I say like you don't find it all on the ship you but again it's not that these are funny things are write them down is just funny to me and Anna and Jeff used to do that and write it down and there's a Post-it note, his wife told the story that that he had written down one of his first redneck jokes which select which was if you have an entire sellable collection… Cool Whip and that was his first big break. You have the original medical amount right will written on a Post-it note, and she had found it and she framed it and put it in the kitchen and he said there she said because it paid for my house. So for the caregiver.

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Hopefully caregiver that comes you ever struggled to trust God when lousy things happen to you and Gracie Rosenberger 1983 I experienced a horrific car accident leading 80 surgeries in both legs and became questioned why God allowed something so brutal to happen to me. But over time the questions changed and I discovered courage to trust God that understanding along with an appreciation for quality prosthetic limbs led me to establish standing with help more than a dozen years we been working with the government of Ghana and West Africa, equipping and training local workers to build and maintain quality prosthetic limbs for their own people on a regular basis. We purchased ship equipment and supplies and with the help of inmates in Tennessee prison. We also recycle parts from donated lambs. All of gas is to point others to Christ. The source of my help and strength these visits standing with help.com to learn more and participate in lifting others that standing without.com. I'm Gracie.

I am staining with help. I love that will is my wife Gracie thing and rejoice evermore.

This criminal for her new CD that's coming out here and be out here very very very very soon Houston very soon.

877-655-6755 if you want to be part of the show. This is hopefully caregiver on Peter Rosenberger. This is the nation's number one show for the family caregiver but was for your grace, I gotta take this job, but her grace and so forth. She does the sleep that you you think she is had a very hard life. She got her from 217 Alexa by the way I do it just as he's had a hard life ended don't get ahead of you. She's had a very hard life, but she's not miserable. You know where things have happened to the very sad. Very tragic but she's not miserable and and she's quite passionate about everything. In fact, that the running argument she has with my feel very strongly about that. You feel very strong about everything strong about Cheerios, you know every she's she's incredibly aggressive about life okay so we got Alexa Amazon allow you guy really did I know how you got Alexa and we got it a while back at it really helps with her. She likes to listen to music and then is your ordering election stuff and I'm not terribly worried about Gracie and our private information with Alexa. Sure, let me let me explain: because my wife is running arguments with Alexa and Annette is very helpful for her, but the ocean turn on the lights without having to get a wheelchair when you don't roll over and turn the lights on things such as that and that lot of different things uses for but you have to speak to Alexa just right.

You can't just come and use Gracie as observer or vernacular you have to there is that there is a language that you have to speak I think it's called English know it's it's… So get to speak Amazon so I come home and there is my wife that she wasn't wearing her legs and so she was in her wheelchair and she was just fuming, chest smoke coming out of your ears, and she said I'm tired of you know who that you can't say I think I shall turn out so it must not be named. So she said I'm tired of this. I am just I just had it with you know who but a traitor and for Google. You do a bit of it just it just fuming about and I turned over and looked at the Alexa device invested Alexa how are you feeling it Alexa and to God.

Alexa said to be this is been a pretty rough day home now. Gracie broke Amazon I can imagine her interacting with regularly and I love Gracie, but her interacting with detail in the course.

Alexa is it because of you know who you think all. So it's dead. That's just part of my life is speaking of which, you know what I want to do. John we displayed that clip of that song. I think we got time for this is so, that's going to be on Gracie's record and you can get the digital copy of it right now okay at her bedside. Hopefully caregiver.com yeah where is that hopefully you out in and you can exit order for, but it was a good Alexa and street on your leg. Yeah, not starting the digital copies are the out hard CDs can be coming out here this month but this is out, and this is a duet of Gracie with Johnny Erickson taught all that is the hundred crêpes to through it all and I thought you all might enjoy hearing this today and because I think for us as caregivers, we need to be reminded of the journey for us.

So enjoy listening Gracie Christian sent me to.

She's all I see is I friend to John Flake that would think that it would be hundred new record is called resilient and were waiting on the just all were waiting on right now is the front cover. I won't mention any names of somebody who is working on the front cover, but is really tall and has a great radio voice yeah so that would be no you jog okay. We all have it for you tomorrow. He says that okay Wheatley is all here it's it's that's what sounded. I asked the case that I will do something if you want special copy of this record okay I have it ready as soon as we get this ready, go to production 877-655-6755 just about to do a lot of, but I do feel you because Johnson 11 by noon tomorrow by noon tomorrow. God bless you John the close of business.

I called out. As always, I will hear politics. Earlier I don't break the promise of job Lelia would use when you listen. That's all he can remember those those you don't know Gracie story or somebody may not even know Johnny Erickson taught the story but the two women singing that have nearly 90 years of severe disabilities by what you think about that Johnny got hurt and 67 when she was 17. Gracie get hurt and 83 when she was 70 and their singing this song. Through it all I've learned to trust in Jesus of learned trust in God. So I got to ask you as a caregiver hurt her, you feeling this that help you.

Does that anchor you does that let you know. Okay, wait a minute if they have failed God to be faithful and that level of trauma.

What about you about you. You will take it just tiny step of faith to think that you know what maybe God is working in my situation to. Maybe I could find faithful to in this and you can go if you any more than they did with Johnny and Gracie.

Here they are still here. They're still doing it and Johnny of course is authored out of how many dozens of books and I did a podcast interview with him the other day John with her folks are to be out this month. Is this national caregiver works month and still be out and then she started a program called a wheels for the world.

They do wheelchairs oversees all of the world and they come in tortoise alone will be good standing with help after Gracie lost her legs. She wanted to use prosthetics as a way of reaching her fellow amputees and she she envision standing with hope and what we do is we provide quality limbs and materials and we purchase things we provide donated used prosthetic limb components like feet needs pylons and screws and adapters and all I can stuff and we send all this over to West Africa. We working with Ghana health service and in the country of Ghana, Republican, for many years since 2005 we teach and equip them to help build legs for their own people. We have patients come as far away from Nigeria and all that the used prosthetic limbs.

We click from around the country to a local prison in Tennessee and where inmates volunteer to help disassemble those legs and they do it in the same shop where they helped refurbish wheelchairs for Johnny's program same shop and is run by core civic core civic.com to great partnership where inmates as one of their many faith-based programs that they have an inmates participate in this as a way of just their own recovery and rehabilitation process and they loved it there after you apply for. Did they have to earn that ability to do so, but it's a great program to women with with significant disabilities, Johnny Scott, quadriplegic sheet quadriplegia. She's been through a breast cancer several times and it's and she's she's pulled through it. Gracie's 80+ surgeries and relentless pain, and all the cost of any other sing.

And through it all.

So I ask you, are you willing to take it just the tiny step of faith not asking you to launch a ministry or write a book or anything of just asking.

Would you be willing to accept the fact that God knows your name is, and forgot about you is your caregiver for someone who may be treating you poorly somebody who may be abusing verbally cussing at you while you're trying to change their depends you know when you have a clean up after, and it's easy to think that somehow that you've been forgotten, but I'm saying to you haven't been.

I know it's painful know it's hard and that's why Gracie and Johnny sing that song to be able to care for you.

Let's go to the phones Trinity our dear friend Trinity is in South Carolina and jaws at the best Carolina. It is the best letter. I was merely asked a academic question that has an objective answer will is where the other. It is about the way I forgot to say something about stating without state without.com. We have two program areas. The prosthetic limb outreach in this caregiver radio show will be a part of this for the wounded and those who care for them. Take a moment go and see how it's in the year tax-deductible gift stayed with hope.calm. We'd love to have you be a part of the Trinity. What's on your heart Monday how you feel. I'm feeling much better than you have been today as I haven't had a fight with Medicare you know I'm a social worker and when I hear about the trials you and Gracie have been through this weekend. I'm thinking about the people who the person they taking care of can't participate there up to their eyeballs in him being a good caregiver and getting out the laundry done. The meals together and everything they don't have time to be on the found data along with Medicare and I think I and II could be wrong for once I don't care what looked at the call from somebody else on your behalf. Not so not really right so it just breaks my heart. Medicare has a lien against me because they feel they have paid for something another insurance company should have paid but I have been my lawyer.

I've been there with them before the day. There were some things that when Gracie because Gracie had an accident, but his wall before she got a Medicare because he had an accident they thought that somebody else been pain and they were withholding stuff and that we it it was it took forever to detangling and and I think back me up on this and you tell me I think that their products and services are good in the sense of what they provide. But I think that it's getting through the bureaucracy to get to that product and service is what causes people to just go barking mad. Well, to coin a phrase.

These are process lines will I know a friend of mine had private insurance on her and her husband and when he became eligible for Medicare. They didn't take it because she had uncovered on her private insurance land.

She when his health problems escalated and she tried to get him on Medicare. She had to pay a penalty because they didn't take it in the beginning, which I have now. I get the logic to that.

You know I don't either but when it comes to the drug component that down at home. We could do a whole shell about the donut hole or they don't cover but anyway I was undergoing my heart just ate the rabbit hole well I appreciate that I really do. And by the way, you're on the list to get it that the CD once once we have the final artwork done location. I am wondering okay so Jon I have a question.

Is it will have many answers is it close of business Eastern time.

Time is now over time.

You know why later. I think John Humphreys by the Kingdom of Tonga time. I have a standing invitation. Yes you do you believe that we've had hundreds on the show have said Tonga and Prince Edward Island and then some well and I will I will say this time is an illusion. Lunchtime. Doubly so. So hello you two are wonderful. Ed is wonderful. I complemented him. When I called in and Gracie. I'm sorry guys. She beat you guys. She's just phenomenal. I would buy would concede, but I got that's what we have the electoral college had a fantastic locally, but I gotta tell you before you leave.

All right, this is not mean anything to a lot of people unless you read this particular online magazine okay okay or not… I'm not endorsing them they not endorse the sale disciplines they love the and is called the Babylon be and it's the greatest empirical magazine out there. I think it is their motto is fake news.

You can trust. Well guess what one of us that line the line right now is working very hard to be a headline published headline person for the Babylon be working hard and I have I have near you. I have really gotten lots of votes but I haven't been able to just get over the hump to get actually out there for the public eye, but I keep it with one last night I wanted to because I thought was funny.

Nancy Pelosi demands that the capital Café include peach cobbler on the menu. All I was clearly okay. I've got a lot of work to allow me but I told you to begin to kick your tip of the day is the right you didn't have to be right well right well you have yours and true to form when it comes to writing every night. The last thing I do is I write in my gratefulness Journal all the things that happened that day that I'm grateful for. Sometimes it might be that I remember to vacuum so silly and fancy stuff it out every night I write out what I managed to do because John you and Peter both know that I had a car accident. Neither brain injuries are not always very productive. But I do listen to Peter shows everything that is the high point of my weak wits lead you to believe that's the best lover. He is had a collision with my bow that I better stop.

I will give you more headline that I pitched again is not successful. I did get votes. Maybe somebody will get this.

Some of you will not but I put on their vindicated George Lucas now feels ready for Jar Jar Binks to enter 2020 election.

I got a B.

You don't why gotta be me, George, don't kick a man I Jar Jar Binks it's a little odd, is clear and for those you don't know anything about that. I'm sorry but it was it made me laugh again. The whole point is to write it doesn't have to be successful.

It doesn't have to be brilliant or pithy but erotic is to get in the habit of major league yeah and that's the thing is you and look let's let's say let's say that the George R wasn't wasn't good although it was objectively speaking, is clearly a fantastic piece of humor is: Peter's hey this kind of flattery.

I deserve a raise so clearly silent, but it's not necessarily about even writing. It's it it it eventually will be in it should be all the time.

I hear you. Yes, it's about writing, but it's also about the habit of light and it's about doing the habit of slowing down and assessing your day and getting and becoming grateful. Right before you go to bed and that is a good thing.

Yeah it's been the habit of another aspect is handwriting stimulates the brain in a different way than using the keyboard – and I and manual dexterity.

I confess I'm not much of a hen writer. If you see my penmanship you would agree, but I do have the I do play the piano so that keeps my dexterity because they don't talk don't talk to me about manual dexterity you get those octave +2 reaches here well I do continue to practice quite a bit on the piano but but it is important for us at the I go back to what you said really. I thought that was really wonderful. I grateful go to bed grateful how many caregivers go to bed wired and frustrated, fearful, feeling guilty feeling struggled on all levels, and I think you know if you just write down since your grateful for that day and make you like.

We never fueled one emotion at a time. It's it's not you can you're still going to feel all of those things. At the end of the day that affected you. There's got to be sorrows and frustrations canopy isolation. All of these things. The idea is to add grateful to that mix and in the way I think that's a very wise word. You know, and it doesn't have to be something great. It it grateful does at least something that this table I think just vacuuming that they are so they said the other day what I write, how much differently. I'm usually pretty boastful for two more will I clean the microwave and a rifle that the Michael explained little things like that. Writing down if it has any kind of value to it all. Writing down as a caregiver just tried you know if you know, if done working I give you money back for what you pay for that advice. Hey, this is hope this is the nation's number one show for the family caregiver. We are grateful for your so much more and hopefully caregiver.com. Check it out.

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