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1 week ago | 
medicalmotherhood.com | Shasta Kearns Moore
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2 weeks ago | 
medicalmotherhood.com | Shasta Kearns Moore
Medical Motherhood is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Snippets of news and opinion from outlets around the world. Click the links for the full story.
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3 weeks ago | 
medicalmotherhood.com | Shasta Kearns Moore
Traversing the Bureaucracy Mountain Range is long and steep climb. Lenore Eklund nails the experience of medical motherhood again in her monthly cartoon. Except, I don’t know about that faceless person laying out all the steps at the beginning. In my experience, it’s usually: One more step, then one more, then oh, I forgot, can you just…. On the second Sunday of every month, we feature Where is the Manual for This?!, an editorial cartoon about the medical mom life from Lenore Eklund.
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4 weeks ago | 
medicalmotherhood.com | Shasta Kearns Moore
I was on our local TV news this week and if I had anticipated that, I probably would have put on makeup or gotten out of my pajama pants or something. But this was the third time I had been to a member of Congress’ town hall meeting in recent months and I didn’t think I would do anything more than listen to what was said and maybe catch a staff member in the hallway to talk about paid family caregivers.
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1 month ago | 
medicalmotherhood.com | Shasta Kearns Moore
We rolled out 50-plus people deep to the Oregon State Capitol on Tuesday to advocate for the passage of Tensy’s Law, SB 538. It was awesome to see so many folks in eye-catching yellow, the color of developmental disabilities services. Unfortunately, the state is nearly half a billion dollars short of its earlier prediction for the budget so there’s a lot of scrambling right now.
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1 month ago | 
medicalmotherhood.com | Shasta Kearns Moore
The Oregonian printed my opinion piece this week on the need for a bill that would reform our Medicaid system, allowing paid parent caregivers to the highest needs children in our state. The op/ed came out on the same day that the state’s economist released his report on the nearly $500 million fewer dollars the state has to spend than they thought they would have while building the budget for the last four months.
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1 month ago | 
medicalmotherhood.com | Shasta Kearns Moore
Last November, my 14-year-old son went in for a full day of surgical procedures: a few on his leg and another for his g-tube. We stayed in-patient overnight and he was in a great mood. (During post-op recovery, he told everyone who came in the room how much he loved anesthesia and to make sure to tell the anesthesiologist how great she was.)Late that evening, a nurse was in our room telling a CNA about some training she had received in caring for someone who can’t move their own body.
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1 month ago | 
medicalmotherhood.com | Shasta Kearns Moore
Hello everyone!I had to triple-check the date and yes we really did start this journey in May 2021 and that means we are now entering Year Five of Medical Motherhood! It has been an incredible experience and I will go ahead and pat myself on the back for providing you with news and information for more than 200 weeks now. Wow!A huge thank you to those who make this work possible: our paid subscribers, especially those who have been here since the beginning.
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1 month ago | 
medicalmotherhood.com | Shasta Kearns Moore
It is time once again for the Medical Motherhood Games! This is our second annual contest celebrating those little victories in our lives. What are you going to submit? The Midnight Pharmacy Dash? The Health Insurance Decathlon?
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2 months ago | 
medicalmotherhood.com | Shasta Kearns Moore
It was another yo-yo news cycle this week. CBS News first reported that “…a new disease registry is being launched to track Americans with autism.” This was based on comments from The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Monday. (Side note: Despite my digging, I’m still not clear where exactly Bhattacharya said this.