Tag: health care

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Jean Mueller

Moving parents to another city

Ask Jean by columnist Jean MuellerQ My mother lives in northern Illinois. This is home, where we grew up. My mom is in her late 80s, dad died several years ago. My mother gave up the family home and moved into an apartment and has been doing okay, but recently she has been telling me how she is losing so many of her friends. She feels alone.

I am thinking about asking her to move in with me. My brother and sister live in California and Georgia and I know she would not want to live in either of those states.

I wonder if living with me would help her feel less lonely and help me feel less guilty about not always being there for her. (From a daughter in Wausau).

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Audrey Mettel Fixmer

Exercising isn’t just for the ‘young’ anymore

Grand Mom column by Audrey Mettel Fixmer

“If I knew then what I know now” is a common opener for us senior citizens.

It is especially appropriate for things involving health care . . . the benefits of regular exercise, for example.

Granted, our Mamas got lots of exercise hanging out laundry, the Papas didn’t have power lawn mowers, and the kids didn’t get rides to school. Everybody walked everywhere.

Playtex or Jack LaLanne?

I just wish I had heard about exercise during my childbearing years in the late 40s and early 50s.

I expected to get back into shape by pulling on a Playtex rubber girdle. (Oh, the memory of sweating through that one!)

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Rory McCluskey

Workers’ voice is at stake, could destroy patient care

To the editor:

“To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them,” said St. Thomas Aquinas.

Please share this story with those that need converting.

Ultimately, what is at stake here in Wisconsin is the workers’ voice. While I was serving in the active duty military, my wife worked as a certified nursing assistant in nursing homes in Arizona and Florida — two “Right to Work States.”

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Mary C. Uhler, editor

Stay alert on health care reform

Now that the health care summit convened by President Barack Obama is over, it seems that there will be tactical efforts used to pass a bill in Congress despite many concerns raised by lawmakers and citizens.

The U.S. Catholic bishops and other Catholic leaders have urged all parties to commit themselves to health care reform that is affordable, accessible, and protects the life and dignity of every person.

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