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The Line When We Went to Vote on Happy Obama Day!

I’m sitting here deciding whether to take my Zanaflex. I only have five left. I can’t afford to see the doctor until at least next week, so since I’m out of refills, I can take one now that I’m in moderate pain, and be able to sleep quickly, though probably only for three hours.

Or I can save it and take it with my last Celebrex, another not cheap medicine that I must take, right now. If I don’t, I can’t keep writing this, because I’ll have to lie down to get long term relief.

This is the cycle of my life, deciding whether or not to take the medication I need to be on until I can get the (also expensive) treatment that actually relieves my pain for days at a time. I don’t have health insurance. Not because I’m broke, but because, I have what they call a “pre-existing condition”.

I’m not covered for my old problems under new health insurance. Neat trick isn’t it? I’m not allowed to pay for something that was created to help me. Lull yourself to sleep with that one for a week.

On the other hand, don’t feel too bad for me. Though I am retired it was from a relatively good business. And it’s in an area I can lean on to launch me into my future. But let me ask you this – if you ever got to the point where you were making $10k or 20k a month, wouldn’t you like to spend, maybe $3k of it on yourself and your bills outside of health care.

The times that I have been that blessed, I’ve had to ramp up my physical therapy visits to be able to be healthy enough to continue to work or spend most of it on medication just to be able to work. And since this is rarely in a stable situation, if I get sick anyway, that’s even more money. Which then slows down my work. Which usually means at the end of the project I’m worn out and have to take weeks, if not months, off.

So why am I telling you about my health issues.

Because when I was standing in that line in the picture at the top of the page…

As much as pain was coursing through every limb of my body and my lower back felt like it was on fire….

Despite the fact that it would be another fifteen minutes before we could aspire to be as close to the building as those dots you may recognize as people….

I felt not just hope, but faith.

I knew, I KNEW that if the man I was going cast my ballot for got elected, his plan was to provide health care, and make the “pre-existing condition” policy illegal. I’ve been to Barack Obama’s site and I have a blog there. I’ve read his plan, but last night I read it again.

And I was moved.

To tears.

By a health plan.

That’s why I voted for him. Because his doable, realistic plans and goals for America may bring this country together. It might just make it so that the climate that created the need to bar pre-existing conditions from coverage doesn’t exist.

This pill is kicking in, so just some quick thank yous.

I want to thank all my Republican friends who are humbly accepting the concession of their party leader with such grace, and are ready to at least wait and see if the Democratic party is as serious as President Obama has shown that he is.

I want to thank all my Democratc firiends for being kind to people who were aligned with the party that lost.

And thank you all US citizens, whatever your political affiliation, for voting.

And thank you friends around the world for your calls, emails and tweets of congrats.

Happy Obama day!

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