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On the boards and in the blogs I have been reading statements like:

• “I think we can all agree, this monster is hell. Its tentacles are climbing inside out of our brain(s). It is trying to control us. Yes we get kicked in the gut, but somehow, we always manage to get back up.

What's difficult? When you're slap dag in the middle of anxiety, anger, pain, confusion, whatever it is that the monster is creating...that's when we need each other, not fight each other!”

• “It is my opinion, based on decades of fairly significant political awareness, that our government is the logical result of a representative democracy in a capitalistic system. Nothing happens except by bribery. They've even legalized bribery, calling it "campaign contributions." There is a snake-pit of ways they can funnel the money into this and that.

We, the dementia community, couldn't possibly muster the money needed to bribe enough House members to make a difference, and no way we could afford a Senator.

Another reason to despair is that we are going to cost way too much money in the long run. It's far more economical to let us get by on what little there is now, than to commit to higher spending levels. Remember, our government is the only democracy that lets people go without healthcare as a national policy.

Our government is already accustomed to letting people die without adequate healthcare. They turn a deaf ear every day.”

If I am going to be kicking and screaming it will be in a purposeful way. My way is to try ardently yet patiently to get something done.

I write and I write about it and I am starting to hear echoes.

People are looking at doing more for Early Stage.

Alternative care models are being looked at. Things like group homes and spousal self supported assisted living are being discussed. Non-profit services dedicated to providing a cadre (dedicated group) of available home health service providers to serve a group in a multiple living facility or neighborhood are being tested.

These are some of the things we can do for ourselves by promoting and grouping together.

I have more hope for a new and better way emerging with the change we have seen in government over the net effect of "starving the beast" that we have been employing in the past. It will need time, funds have been squandered on war, Wall Street and tax cuts. Sometimes government can find incentives making possible what it cannot fund.

Lets look with hope as expect more of the same duplicitous crap!

So everyone, channel the anger, focus the rage, make it make a difference for us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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