32 Weeks-New Worries

Its week 32 of symptoms. I have added arthritis and loss of mobility in my right hand to my MS bag of tricks. The loss of my hands is almost unbearable. I mean crafting is my therapy when my body decides to be stupid with everything else I could sit and create beautiful things and feel better. Now that ability comes and goes. My therapy is now painful at times. I am trying to see this as a temporary thing just another hurdle I have to jump. My medication to prolong remissions makes me so sick. I am told this is temporary they said my symptoms wouldn’t all that that long too but I think 32 weeks is a long time. And now on top of my body failing me I have to worry about our new president and what that will mean to me and many like me who have pre-existing conditions. I have worked since I was 9 years old I served my country. I have never been unemployed for more than 30 days in the past twenty years. I have a disease that cannot be prevented. There is no cure and the cure that is being looked at is one that Republicans and conservatives will not even consider. There is a chance that myself and millions like me will be without health insurance. Trump has said he will see that doesn’t happen but he has said a lot of things to get elected and he and many like him were quick to jump on getting ACA repealed. Make America Great Again but only for those who aren’t sick, who aren’t poor, who don’t disagree with the views of the office. I guess the his America isn’t the same America we advertise on the Statue of Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” Instead of fixing a flawed healthcare he will build walls between people and the necessities they need for a good life. This isn’t progress this is regression. A multitude of steps back in time pulling us further and further away from greatness. And it will not stop with healthcare. I really hope I am wrong but his actions over the past year should give us an indication of what we have to look forward to for the next four years. Buckle up buttercups we may be in for a bumpy ride.