Putting a loved one in a nursing home for long-term or end-of-life care is a heart wrenching decision even under the best of circumstances.You want to make sure your loved one receives the best care possible, and yet you don’t know, exactly, what to expect. Your choice of facility may be limited by insurance requirements or financial concerns, or...
Continue ReadingAnyone with small children knows how important it is to protect them. From the moment we bring them home from the hospital, our lives are spent in protection mode – locking up medicines and household chemicals, plugging off electrical outlets, wrapping the corners of the coffee table with foam bumpers. And when you take your little bundle of joy...
Continue ReadingImagine a physical illness so debilitating that you’re unable to sleep, suffer extreme mood swings, and feel pain and tenderness throughout your body. Would you be able to work in such a condition? Fibromyalgia is a mysterious illness that affects quality of life as well as ability to work, and an estimated 2% of the American population is affected....
Continue Reading“Can I still apply for disability even though I’m working?” That’s a question we get asked a lot, and the short answer is “yes.” Or, more accurately, “yes, but…” We’ve already talked about how the SSDI process can be a lengthy one. SSDI decisions can be rendered in as little as 30 days or the process can take up...
Continue ReadingWe see it in the news with alarming regularity: someone accidentally shot by a gun, many times with tragic consequences. Often these news stories involve children, which makes the tragedy even more heart-wrenching. Recently, an Evansville couple was arrested after a cell phone video showed their one-year-old child holding and playing with a gun. The story was picked up...
Continue ReadingJune 2015 — Monsanto’s U.S. Agency Lead for Regulatory Affairs, Daniel Jenkins, told his colleagues that ATSDR had officially stopped their glyphosate assessment until after the EPA released its preliminary risk assessment. Reference: Moncivais, Katy. “Roundup Cancer Lawsuit: 2020 Updates & Settlements.” Consumer Safety, 8 Jan. 2021, https://www.consumersafety.org/product-lawsuits/roundup/
Continue ReadingOne of the distinct advantages of living along the Ohio River is that we have miles and miles of open water available to us for recreation, right at our doorstep. Hot weather drives us toward the water, and the Independence Day holiday is a prime time for boating, skiing, and fishing. Many boaters are out on the water well...
Continue ReadingYou may have heard that getting Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is a hard road to travel, if not practically impossible. The SSDI process can take anywhere from30 days to two years for benefits from an initial claim to be approved, and along the way there will be denials and appeals. It seems unfair – you’re hurt, or you’ve...
Continue ReadingAs the weather begins to warm here in the Tri-State, we see an increase of outdoor related accidents. After a cold and snowy winter, motorists often need to be reminded that they share the road with cyclists once the weather improves. Unfortunately, it’s often news stories such as these that serve as such a reminder. Each year, bicyclist deaths...
Continue Reading“Every day in America, 12 people go to work and never come home. Every year in America, nearly 4 million people suffer a workplace injury from which some may never recover.” – Hilda Solis, Former Secretary of Labor, 2012 Four million people per year. That’s more than 10 thousand people per day. How many of these injuries were caused...
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