Author Archives: mamasick

On Sunday she was here and on Monday she was gone.  The trouble started Sunday night. Things were hectic already.  It was after 11:00 and we still could not get Tyler to bed, the result of a too long, too … Continue reading →

When I saw my Rheumatologist yesterday I told him about what had happened to me in the Social Security Reconsideration process.  He was very frustrated for me and for all the hard work that I had put into the application. … Continue reading →

I went to the Rheumatologist today for my Orencia infusion.  I have had really achy joints for three months now and for about a month my joints have been swelling as well.  At the end of the day I can … Continue reading →

Because our apartment can’t hold enough people. Because where we live, if parties aren’t at people’s large homes with Mickey Mouse and Buzz Lightyear in attendance, they are at little gyms and bouncy places. Because my child has been looking … Continue reading →

One week later, I finally spoke to my lawyer’s paralegal about my Reconsideration Disaster. According to her, I am where I want to be.  There is no going backwards, no matter how unfair my Reconsideration process was.  She said the … Continue reading →

This book was given to me at no cost as a member of the From Left to Write book club. Katherine Rosman’s mother, Suzy, was in incredible shape for a woman of any age, let alone someone in her late fifties. … Continue reading →

Yesterday I finally got together with two of my best friends and their children.  Friends who I met at work turned out to be so much more than that, and in 2006 after one of us went on maternity leave, … Continue reading →

This book was given to me at no cost as a member of the From Left to Write book club. When I first began reading the memoir If You Knew Suzy by Katherine Rosman, I didn’t know if I would … Continue reading →

My husband opened up two very important pieces of mail on Friday while I was sleeping and just as he was about to pick Tyler up.  It was 5:30.  Bad news, and nothing I could do about it until TUESDAY! … Continue reading →

Well, really advocating for yourself does.  It just happened that standing up for myself on the phone with my food stamp case worker was done in a matter of teary good points.  She reopened my case and it is truly … Continue reading →