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http://www.needymed
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http://covering kids and families.org/
http://www.freemedi
http://www.mycancer
http://www.cancerca
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http://www.rxassist
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http://www.hrsa.
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Every one of America's uninsured, regardless of age or income, can call toll
free to 1-866-776-3700
or log onto the Internet at http://www.pfizerhe
to find out how to get Pfizer medicines for free or at significant savings.
Direct links to the food stamp site -- officially the USDA Food & Nutrition
Service
Frequently asked questions --
http://www.fns.
Applicants and recipients
http://www.fns.
The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is a federally assisted meal
program operating in public and nonprofit private schools and residential child
care institutions. It provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches
to children each school day.
http://www.fns.
Modest Needs is a non-profit, tax-exempt philanthropic organization that
began as one man's personal project in March of 2002. Since that time, Modest
Needs has become a community of unlikely philanthropists dedicated to helping
others as best we can with what we have.
http://www.modestne
Find a National Depression Screening Day site near you
(for members of the public wanting to take a free anonymous screening)
http://www.mentalhe
http://www.mentalhe
A national free eye care program for low-income working Americans that is
now open year round. See web site or call 1-800-766-4466.
http://www.aoa.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is a Federal agency
within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Programs for which CMS is
responsible include Medicare, Medicaid, State Children's Health Insurance
Program(SCHIP)
http://cms.hhs.
Links to help with Disabilities.
http://www.disabili
Sources of Free or Low-Cost Food and Nutrition Materials
http://www.nal.
A list of directories of grantmakers by state/region/
http://fdncenter.
Volunteers in Health Care staff have prepared the following list of links
useful to those serving the uninsured.
http://www.voluntee
Insurance for kids
Insure Kids Now.gov
http://www.insureki
Patient assistance programs
http://helpingpatie
Prescription medications are an important part of total patient care
http://www.rxassist
Free Medicine For Low Income People http://www.mhsanctu
Merck Patient Assistance Program
https://www.
Habitat for Humanity
http://www.habitatf
WIC
http://www.fns.
Food Banks in the United States
http://www.wadv.
Administration for Children and Families and Domestic Violence
http://www.acf.
Energy Assistance: Home Heating and Cooling
http://www.ncat.
Free or Low-cost Medical/Dental Care
http://ask.hrsa.
Financial Help to Pay for Home Heating and Cooling
http://www.acf.
Head Start (Administration for Children & Families
http://www.headstar
Job Opportunities for Low-income People
http://www.acf.
Medicaid - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
http://www.cms.
Resources to Help Children and Families
http://www.ncfy.
State TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) Links
http://www.acf.
Touched Twice
http://www.touchedt
Touched Twice provides free clinics and more to the less fortunate.
many of the clinics provide free food, clothing, dental and medical
care, free haircuts, free legal, financial and spiritual advice. free
clinics located in the US.
a leading resource for senior related information
http://www.friendly
Get Connected: Afford-A-Phone
The Lifeline telephone discount program, also known as "Lifeline
Assistance", gives people with low incomes a discount on the basic monthly service for
either their wireline or wireless phone. The Link-Up America program pays for
a portion of your wireline or wireless installation or activation fee
excluding the handset.
http://www.fcc.
Listing Of Free Clinics
http://www.medkind.
Last year I posted these articles I wrote. I just looked back, and it was 1 week before this date last year. Every year, around the last week of March and the first week of October, my lupus gets really tough. This week I feel like I've been hit by a car and beat up. I am covered with bruises and they come from the inside, (broken blood vessels and inflammation inside) so the inside hurts more than the outside. So I started thinking of feeling like I was being punched around like a piece of clay, and remembered my magazine articles, which won a couple of awards. I hope you will enjoy them!
THE FIRING
(c) Sheila Wall
(please use my name when passing on)
Once I was a bank of clay along a wetted marsh. I was content and silent, enjoying the natural sensations. One day an artist came, and with a strong, forceful knife, he cut me, again and again, until I was a lump of my former self. He took me to a strange place and with torturous strength he kneaded me. He threw me on a potter's wheel. He squeezed me. He punched me. He poked me. It seemed to never end. He bent me and thinned me out. I was no longer anything like I once was. Then the wheel stopped! He held me up to a mirror. I was beautiful! The pain had made me beautiful and useful. Now I could rest, I thought. I had become what I was meant to be. But wait! Where am I going now? To a firing kiln? Fire? More pain? Why, artist, why? "My little pot, you are the shape you'll always be, the design I planned for you, but unless I fire and glaze you, you will not endure. I hope you understand, it will not be for long, and then you will be the model for my other student's pots." And so I endured the fire, with anticipation of what I might someday inspire.
ENJOY THE FALL (c) Sheila Wall
(please use my name when passing on)
Well, you did it. You just jumped off the plane for the first time, but not onto solid ground, into thin air! You quickly assess the situation and think, "Now I can panic, or I can savor the experience. Wow. Up here, I feel no pressure, I feel no pain. I can do flips and somersaults that I couldn't do before. I can fly! I can see my town with a different perspective. I don't worry about hitting the ground, because I know my parachute will hold me."
Many years later you find yourself on solid ground, where everything seems heavier and harder. You feel that you are falling in life. After a long series of small stresses, the one catastrophe that you thought you could never bear just occurred. The weight pushes you to your knees in tears, then in prayer, and you hear a soft, quiet voice whisper to your heart, "Well, you did it. You just jumped off the ledge of security for the first time. Now you can panic or you can savor the experience. Down on your knees I can take the load from you. You will be able to do things you couldn't do before, with my strength. You can see things with a different perspective, through my eyes. Don't you worry about hitting the ground. I will be your parachute. I will carry you to safety. Enjoy the fall." Falling doesn't always mean destruction.
