Technical Difficulties -- My apologies!

     I just found out that people have attempted to post comments on my blog, and they're not actually getting posted to my blog! This really saddens me, since I've missed out on contact with any readers that might have come across my little world. However, I do believe I have fixed the issue, and hopefully from here on out I won't be missing any comments from anyone again. Sorry about that y'all!

REVIEW : Remote Area Medical

     I was really only planning on beauty reviews and similar things, but after I encountered this group of awesome people, I really felt like this was a thing I should write about. These people need to be given high fives, hand shakes, and hugs for what they are doing for people who can’t afford health care.

     That trailer doesn’t look like much, does it? I didn’t think so either, but once I checked into this group and even watched their documentary, “Remote Area Medical”, which if you have Netflix and a little spare time, you should definitely check out. (Actually about two weeks before I had even heard of them I was trying to find something to watch on Netflix and their documentary popped up, it wasn’t until after my failed attempt to go on Friday afternoon that it clicked in my head and I went home and watched it Friday night.) Heads up to the squeamish people though, they do show people having teeth pulled, I wish I had been warned. Maybe there is a warning in the beginning and I just didn’t see it, but hey, I’ve warned you. What a gal, right?
 

     They show up in random towns, sometimes larger towns, sometimes smaller more rural towns, like mine. They provide free medical, dental and vision to anyone who shows up at their ‘doorstep’. They even had a ‘mammovan’ there and were providing mammograms to women. I heard talk that they were doing other lady oriented medical things as well.

A Year Later...

     It's been a year since a friend of mine decided to take his own life.  Let me just state this, he and I weren't that close, and still, his suicide rocked me.  I spent days in tears after, and months later, I still would cry when something would hit me about his suicide.  I cried the first time I saw a picture of his son, who was just a couple months old when he committed suicide, just because of how much he looks just like him.  I wanted to write a blog on dealing with someone's suicide, but every time I wrote it, it just felt so weird.  I couldn't find the words, and honestly, I think it's because of that emotion I can't find words for.  Instead, I've decided to write a blog on where I'm at now, a year later.

     It was the most chaotic period of emotions I have ever experienced in my life.  I went from sad, to angry, to just this raw emotion I had never experienced before in my life, and I still don't have a word to describe it.  For anyone who has ever experienced someone taking their own lives, I give you my condolences, because in my experience, it was one of the hardest things I have ever dealt with emotionally.  It was like a tornado and earthquake of emotions, just as soon as I'd get angry the anger would subside and I'd be hit with guilt, and then sadness, and back to anger, all before I could even figure out what was going on.  I wouldn't wish that upon anyone.