High Costs of Prohibition

One of the biggest misconceptions about pain control comes from the myth of the addict. Addicts are only a very small percentage of the population, according to many sources, 1.3% of the population. These people wish to escape their reality, because they have difficulty coping with it. Yet 20% of the population, a staggering 25.5 times the number of addicts, have the same problem coping with their reality due to chronic pain. But chronic pain patients are trying to avoid reality, not to separate themselves from responsibility, to be able to be responsible for themselves and their lives. This is just one reason why our current drug prohibition is completely insane. There are many other reasons, a few of which I'll give here.

We only need to look at the number of people employed by hospitals and emergency rooms to see the human cost of drug policy. A little bit of math on the numer of employees per bed in an ER gives a ratio of 14 employees per bed per shift. That's fourteen people to take care of one. When we are incapable of taking care of our most basic bodily functions, a very small number of patients suck up an enormous number of resources. Looking specificly at the cost of chronic pain, the costs of lost productivity and medical care (in 2015 dollars) is an estimated $613 billion to $694 billion, accorting to the National Institutes of Health. This amount, according to the study, represents more than the annual cost of heart disease, diabetes, and cancer combined. Chronic pain is the largest continuous drain on our resources, both medical and economic.

And the reason chronic pain is the largest continuous drain on our economy is because of the behavior of 1.3% of the population, most of whom outgrow their addiction naturally (50% of addicts give up their addiction naturally, without intervention over time). When we include the $41 billion spent on drug prohibition, we're talking about less than one percent of the population costing our economy an average of $674 billion, annually. This is not counting the human costs as a result of crime, violence, and suffering that results from this prohibition.

Can we please admit that our current drug prohibition is absolutely insane? We have for decades now done the same thing over and over, expecting that we can irradicate drug addiction with catastrophic results for people who are not addicts. We are hurting law-abiding citizens in the tens of millions for the behavior of a minute few, half of which get better on their own!

Let's wake up, America. There is no boogieman who lives in chemical substances. No one becomes an addict simply by injesting a drug. Doctor Jeckle and Mister Hyde is a dangerous myth, one we desperately need to dispell. We went to war on drugs, but it has become a war on patients with astronomical costs. We thought we learned our lesson by 1933 with the failure of alcohol prohibition, but the sad truth is we are still delusional fools today.

Come on, America... We're so much better than this. End the War on Patients.

The Case for Mercy

We forget so easily the struggles of our past, and how much time it took us to mature. Time has a dopplar effect. We don't remember every time we had a meal, we don't have to. We just have to remember the important things. How to survive, how to advance and aquire, how to make ourselves and others secure so that we may enjoy life and love. We forget the generations it took and the suffering, and the luck required to be successful. The true story of the past is reduced to history. We leave out the boring bits, we gloss over the pain and the loss, and we focus on the happy ending or the trauma. The former begets motivation to overcome obsticles and reach for a brighter future. The latter begets a cruel system of might makes right, also known as the Laws of Beasts.

I will be the first to admit I have a pidgeon brain. Success is actually not the best teacher. When we're too lucky, we begin to think the magic dance we're doing makes the magic food pellet fall from the sky god. If we can't see the scientist with the food pellet dispenser set to go off at a random interval, we think it's magic. Oh look what a good job I did! No, silly, you were born at the right time to catch a wave of opportunity that you then surfed into the future. that doesn't mean you weren't also lucky to have escpaed the razor sharp rocks below the surface that have claimed others.

We forget we came into this world screaming, and that it took time to learn how to address our own needs. We take for granted the work of previous generations. We forget how long it took us to figure out how to stand on two feet. We forget how many times we skinned our knees learning how to run. We remember how to soothe our wounds. We forget how uncomfortable it was while we healed. We remember that when we put this into our bodies it made us feel better. We remember that when we get a good night's sleep, we wake refreshed. But when we're unable to heal, when we're unable to eat, and we're unable to get a good night's sleep, what happens? We turn into canky babies again.

When living in harsh conditions, one must be harsh to survive. It's school-yard ethics: the bully gets to takesmaller kids lunch money, and people will attach themselves to a bully as a survival mechanism to not be victims themselves. That's a goon squad, and it's co pletely natural and totally inhumane. That's why we train our children out of that behavior. Most of the time.

In times of trauma, our minds switch off and instincts kick in. Your brain goes into hyper-awarness-crisis-mode. Reflexes are sped up, time seems to slow, but only because we're going faster than normal and are able to process more visual stimulii than normal. If we're lucky, there's a hard-wired circuit where we encountered this before and survived. If so, we act seemingly without thinking. That's because our general reflexive thought processes (our awareness of our awareness) is redundant and slow. Second-guessing costs valuable time in a crisis— time which could spell the difference between surviving and dying.

This is why the ability to self-soothe is so important. All children have a fear of the dark at somepoint in their lives. Heck, many adults have it. And that's completely natural, probably permanently hard-wired in our genetic code. That noise you just heard coming from the place you can't see... Was that floor-bords creaking as someone rolls over in bed? Or is that the big scary monster that's coming to eat you? Guess wrong and it's your life. It takes years to learn how to sleep alone, because to our cavemen-child minds we know it's just not safe.

Civilization is a very thin veneer over millenia of animal wiring. And our boogeymen and our need to punish wrong-doers even at sacrifice to ourselves is how life is for most. What animals fight for territory, mating rights, and resources? All of them, down to the microscopic. Reason is the luxury of a safe and fulfilled body. Self-soothing is vital to recovery after a crisis. If you lack those skills, or if you were never taught those skills, or if you are just unable to meet your body's demands, your reasonable mind shuts off and your fight or flight instincts kick in.

And if you are trapped in your suffering, you scream and flail. Flight is no longer possible, so fight kicks in. Animals do this— any vet will tell you that chronic pain in animals often results in aggression. Dementia patients do the same, and why wouldn't they? What's more humane: chaining them up as we do to animals, or easing their distress so they don't harm themselves or others? That's your choice: treat people as intelligent beings capable of being reasonable, or watch them behave like animals and then treat them like animals because you wouldn't be reasonable?

On the Today's Show today the mentioned that 2 million are addicted to pain pills and 500,000 are addicted to heroin. But those number are a drop in the bucket compared to the 63,800,000 who are crippled by chronic pain. For every two addicts we address, we punish fifty-one people in chronic pain. We are destroying ourselves over trying to control a few when the masses are crying out in pain. Do you know how much money we would save every year if we got rid of the stupid assertion that adults are children and cannot be trusted not to touch the poison?

Addicts in open recovery, such as comedian Russel Brand have confessed never once did they think: I musn't do drugs because drugs are illegal! and if we just taught all doormen how to do the sobriety test at the bar, you could direct them to the sobering up area and release them when their safe to drive (the "follow my finger" neurology test is impossible to do when you're drunk, and possible when you're sober, no matter how much of an alcoholic you are). But there's a whole lot of money and very little paperwork in prosecuting drunk drivers. Real criminals are difficult and cost a lot of money and the jail makes the money.

But we will willingly destroy ourselves to punish "evil-doers." Never once realizing that "evil" is completely relative based on tradition, superstition, animal brains, and a planet that can shake us like a cold. It is us who are fragile. we don't understand the world by a long-shot. We're writing laws based on a morality code that is only going to change with time. The laws still live, enforced by a generation who weren't there to experience why we made that decision then, and whether or not it's still applicable now! Times change and what offends grandma and grandpa we're not so uptight about.

Can we not give up this silly crusade called the War on Drugs? Can we take back some of our dignity as adults and show some mercy on people struggling? Pleasure-seeking is not a sin, nor is pain avoiding. We all do things to ease our bodies and our minds, and we have been taught by generations and our own biology to do so. We have 52 people suffering for every two that use the same substance for psychological pain rather than medical pain. Either way it's someone suffering who needs compassion and mercy, not control, gatekeepers, and punishment.

End the Shadow War on Patients.

Opiate-induced Sleepwalking

One reason I'd make a terrible #junkie is that I can't take more than 10mg of methadone 3 times a day. Any junkie will tell you that's a BABY dose. I helped the homeless including driving junkies to the methadone clinic when I volunteered in Seattle, and most methadone clinics give out a syrup containing 250mg of methadone for a once per day dose. Dear god, that would probably kill me. but the reason I can't go higher than 10mg/day is that on any higher dose, even for breakthough pain, I will either experience insomnia or sleepwalking.

The first time I went sleepwalking I left my friends' apartment, took their flashlight, left their apartment building, and sat for 5 minutes, ASLEEP, on 11th Avenue in downtown Seattle (not the safest of places to be a woman asleep on the curb). Then I went back inside (thank god I wasn't locked out) leaving the flashlight downstairs for evidence to myself that I was unconcious of my own actions.

I did this immediately upon falling asleep, apparently, because the lady of the house "thought I had gone out to smoke a cigarette, but [I wasn't] gone long enough... If that doesn't scare you away from misusing your opiates, nothing will. To this day it scares me to live alone, for that and may other reasons. I have a service dog to let me know when a bad migraine is coming, so I can also sleepwalk proof my house before going to bed.

If you watch Mike Birbiglia's first movie about him becoming a stand-up comic, you can see just how dangerous sleepwalking can be. I would sleepwalk and talk even into my teen years, but I grew out of it. Or so I thought.

So yeah... Me? So not a junkie.

Judging a Cover

Doctors fancy themselves judges. Any lawyer would laugh at that, but patients know the truth. Even the most well-intentioned doctor is judge, jury, and sadly far too often, executioners. I can't tell you how many times I almost died due to the neglegence of a doctor. There was the original dismissal of my symptoms of adrenal insufficiency including a full-blown Adrenal Crisis the night before my colonoscopy. There were the cries of, "You're so young!" and "You look so good!" Now my problem is I live in a conservative town, I look much younger than my 41 years, I have tattoos (last one so painful from my neuropathy I quit ink 7 years ago), and I've been on pain pills they just don't prescribe in the Middle West. Hence, I'm castigated as a junkie when I have no history of substance abuse.

What I do have is just enough chemical knowledge to make it seem like I'm a junkie. Doctors think they're the only people who can pronounce fancy names. They can't imagine that a professional writer, nay, a health writer could have a grasp on how to read. Do you remember in kindergarten when they taught you how to pronounce big words by breaking them up into smaller ones? Yeah, unless you have a medical degree you couldn't possibly know how to say dextromethorphan or trinitrotoluline (TNT for you folks at home).

And if you happen to talk fast, that couldn't possibly be because you're able to think fast. No one can think fast without drugs!! Well, I don't take drugs for my ADHD because speed can kill me with my adrenal insufficiency, and it makes my heart race at unsafe levels. I was diagnosed ADHD when I was 18. Took medication for three months, then had to quit. Oh, the ritilin did exactly what it was supposed to: for the first time I could remember more than three things at once. I would have stayed on it if I could. Instead I developed coping skills. Now I can out remember both my parents; dad''s been diagnosed ADHD since he was 45 and my mother takes the Adderall, also called dextroamphetamine.

Did you know oxygen is a drug? Yeah... A drug. The $#!+ we need to breathe and live is a prescription drug if you need a respirator, or if you get it in hospital. But go down to any hardware store and you can buy giant tanks of it, no prescription. It's used in acetyline torches. Did you know that we use sodium to light our streetlights? If your street lights are a nasty pale orange, that's a sodium light, the same stuff that ups your blood pressure. Did you know potasium can kill you if you inject it too quickly into a vein? It's an essential vitamin, but one good dose to the vein and you'll never need vitimins again. Did you know aspirin is made from coal tar? Or that most of our "synthetic" drugs (not really synthetic because coal and coal tar both come from plant matter) come from?

Oh but I'm just a patient... I couldn't actually know something. Having knowledge means I'm a threat. I know when doctos are trying to make $#!+ fly without wings, so I'm a threat. We can't have our almighty doctors threatened with the truth! That might lead to the ethical treatment of patients and having to admit when they've made a mistake!

The HORROR!!!

Ignorance is the bliss of Innocence

I hold no illusions. I am not a stranger to pain nor high-stakes power games of Shakespearian proportion. The truth is brutal and beautiful, sometimes at the same time. But my people, people with disabilities, will understand the knowledge I'm about to lay down. They've lived it, and are living it.

I've been dealing with a lot of ignorance lately and I have been doing everything in my power to forgive them, for they know not what they do. Fourty-eight hours ago, however, I hit my limit. I'm though coddling healthy people because they don't understand. I will gently teach them, and if they don't want to hear it, I will yell it from the rooftops: Ignorance of the law does not mean innocence. Discrimination is Discrimination.

I am not a second-class citizen. I'm a separate but equal citizen, separated from the masses because of my disability. In their ignorance, they have started wringing their hands about how it's exploitation to not pay people with disabilities minimum wage for their work.

Wow. They should really read my book, because that stance shows their absolute ignorance of working while disabled. When I worked at Microsoft, there were all sorts of perks that weren't included in your salary like free cold beverages including fresh milk. A cafeteria that served resturant-level food including daily-delivered sushi, and you could take a break during work hours to play basket ball, video games, et cetera.

I give this example because what the Healthy people don't understand is that many of us need to be underpaid so we don't lose our benefits and can get out of the house for a reason other than medical interventions. That's a huge gift in itself. Additionally we become contributing members of society again, something people in this economy can understand. Having a job you love at any salary is priceless. I know it was to me, I blogged about my experience when it happened. And I took a pay cut for that job, happily.

When you force companies to pay minimum wage, that means your taking a paying job away from some other person with a disability. How is that a good idea? Your noble cause would have a devistating effect in reality. I will not idly by and let you do that to my people. We are not livestock you can slaughter to feed you political agenda.

I will not let the dreams of my people be defered. We ALL have a Constitutional right to pursue Happiness. Ignorance is no defense. This is my Call to Action: #WiseUp and show a little compassion!

Invisible Disabilities 8th Annual Awards Ceremony

if you live in the #Denver area or can travel to the Denver area by October 23^rd, you WILL want to join us. If you don't know the story about InvisibleDisabilities.org, you should: they coined the term "Invisible Disabilities," and testified in front of Congress to include people like me, who are disabled, but who make disability look awesome.

I've recently moved back to St. Louis into a very snobby building, and you wouldn't believe the discrimination I've faced. Well, i take that back, you probably do know. I even had to write the Board of Directors of my building and remind them of the Americans with Disability Act, the Reform Act of 1973, and the Fair Housing Act of 1988. My father is an attorney, and they went to his place of work to hand deliver a letter of complaint agains me like I'm some child, and I'm over 40!

So if you think discrimination against People with Disabilities is a thing of the past, you are very poorly informed. Just because there are laws doesn't mean people follow them, especially people with power. But they have no idea who they're effog with. My neighbor used to be the head of the local chapter of the ACLU.

They won't know what hit them. But they will know who. <evil grin>

Do join us in Colorado!! We'd love to have you. Tickets on sale NOW!

The System and Dr. Ruan

Growing up in a family of lawyers and politicians, you're raised to understand The System. What most people don't understand is that fiction is dramatic to be exciting and entertaining. The real world is a great deal different. The system takes power, nuance, and a lot of work on your time and your dime. Depending on where you are, the rules are always different, but there are always rules. Be a team player and you just might get somewhere. Screw up, and you'll find just how limiting the System can become. Not all cages have bars you can see. Doesn't mean you're not in a cage. Ask anyone whose lived in a ghetto, they know.

Patience, obedience, and manners are all a part of the dance. When you're not the authority, you better know how to relax and follow their lead. This is the same for police as it is for government bureaucrats as it is for doctors. The problem is, in a situations like that, even normal behavior can be painted as criminal shown in the "right" light. Not everyone knows what's normal and what's not, so if you start throwing big numbers around without any baseline for comparison, people assume it's impressive. Having a frame of reference is vital to know where things really stand.

"The numbers are pretty stunning. A 2012 article in the Annals of Family Medicine noted that the average primary-care physician has about 2,300 patients on his "panel"— that is, the total under his or her care. Worse, it said that each physician would have to "spend 21.7 hours per day to provide all recommended acute, chronic and preventive care for a panel of 2,500 patients." I'm not sure I'd want that doc seeing me at the end of that long a day at the office.

"According to a 2013 survey by the American Academy of Family Physicians, the average member of that group has 93.2 "patient encounters" each week — in an office, hospital or nursing home, on a house call or via an e-visit. That's about 19 patients per day. The family physicians said they spend 34.1 hours in direct patient care each week, or about 22 minutes per encounter, with 2,367 people under each physician's care."
— Washington Post - "How Many Patients Should Your Doctor See Each Day?" April 22, 2014

Now a little math. Multiply 2,000 by once per month visits and that's 24,000 visits per year. Why once a month? Because pain medications are only doled out in once-per-month written prescriptions. Multiply that by three years, and that's 72,000 prescriptions over three years.

So when the news tells me that a pain doctor has written an "alarming" 30,000 prescriptions over three years, and try to paint that as excessive, first I laugh at the lie, and then I get really upset at the System.

This whole case against Dr. Xiulu Ruan and her fellow doctors is a farce. Doctors are expected to be able to diagnose in three minutes, and sometimes less! Do you think a gunshot wound waits for thirty minues for the doctors to interview their patients? The appointment is a formality for the patient. Most doctors are much smarter and faster than that.

When you see that she's also writing far fewer prescriptions than any given general practitioner, then the DEA's stance that that this is a "bad doctor" is just laughable. What's not laughable, however is the truth. The DEA is tearing apart the livelyhood of two doctors, smearing their good names, destroying a tax-paying business, costing a mountain of legal fees, destroying the jobs the doctors entire support staff, and putting all their patients lives on hold and at risk.

"Why?" You ask.

Because drug dealers shoot back. Doctors don't. The burden of defense is on the doctors. That pumps a hell of a lot more money into the System than taxes. All those doctors' possessions have been seized (asset forfiture), and the System is not required to give it back, even if the doctors are found innocent. Where do you think those possessions end up? Oh, some of it gets inventoried, sure, but things disappear too.

Who watches the watchmen? Do you think a uniform magically makes someone invulnerable to human weakness? Why do you think transparency in the System is important? Because the System will happily eat you for breakfast. Limits on Government and the rest of the System protects us from their tyrrany.

Plus, people in the System are pre-approved to go to the press and spread half-truths all day long. They can pat themselves on the back for "catching the bad guys." They look like they're doing their job, when actually it's the doctor's job to report to the DEA and provide the evidence to the System that eventually is used against them. It's really easy to do your job when others are required to do it for you. The DEA has a sweet racket going on. They don't have to do anything except bust law-abiding citizens and all other pain doctors are now terrified to do their job and help patients. That's a win-win in their book.

Pain, left untreated or under-treated can easily grow into chronic pain^*, for reasons not fully understood at this time. Does the DEA care? Not a bit. To them, every patient is a junky and every doctor a dealer and hospitals are cartels. They can force their victims through laws and regulations to dig their own graves.



Welcome to reality.




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Wit's End

This is me, a raw an exposed nerve, without a bone of guile in my body. I know I give everything away in my face, and in this much pain, I couldn't lie if I tried. That's a genuine pain problem for you: ruthless. And what's more: a drug addict can run circles around me all day. They can contain their emotions because they're not receiving cruel and unusual punishment from their own body. You think 30 million have a problem with diabetes and that's a big number? Try the number one debilitating ailment, the number one disabling problem in the U.S. Chronic pain. Madame, there is no second. It eats up the most public resources and ends well paying careers instantly. This is from the book, Next Medicine along with Social Security Administration statistics as previously cited in this blog.

I couldn't pack myself I was so sick. I can't unpack myself. This pain doctor, unlike any of the pain doctors I've seen in 13 years, wants an Illinois or Missouri ID. I just moved home. The State licensing bureau doesn't accept my current Colorado license as a valid ID. They had a two page list of all the paperwork I needed to being with me and the doctors only give a thirty day supply of pills to last you this whole process.

Guess who can't get any of this done, eh? The person with the painfully crippling disease, that's who.

We need the DEA to stop practicing medicine without a license. That's the only way you're going to be able to tell the junkies from people with legitimate pain problems. This is cruel and unusual punishment and I haven't broken any laws! I just want to be able to manage my pain and not a speck more!! I like being lucid thank you very much. I rely on my brain for my money, and I'm not about to compromise on that. But I'm broken. I have 13 years of paper trail to prove it. I have moved several times to find better health and was even able to return to work for a while.

But my health caught up with me. I have proven to the federal governments high standards, and they have me listed as RETIRED. And this at the tender age of 29.... I know people say that's the dream, but man, don't do it this way!

I am extremely lucky in other respects. There are people worse off than me, of that I have no doubt. I'm related to some of them. And I try to be there for them as best I can, when I can. Now is not one of those times. We need to stop the war on doctors and patients. It's inhumane and unconstitutional.

Make Money While Disabled

If you follow my blog at all then you know that I am all about advocacy, regardless of the topic. A while ago, I interviewed a certain someone who wished to remain Anonymous. I purposely waited to publish this interview to protect this person's Anonynimity. This is going to be the new purpose of this blog: To give you the information you need, especially if you were disabled in CHILDHOOD, but want to live, and be able to afford all the enormous out-of-pocket expenses the goverment DOES NOT cover, all while on a fixed income.

As per my Attorney's advice, I must give the foloing disclaimer: WHAT YOU READ HERE DOES NOT CONSTITUTE MEANS/MODE/OPPORTUNITY/MOTIVE/or INTENT TO DEFRAUD OR DEFUND THE GOVERNMENT IN ANY WAY. If you are really and truly disabled and you KNOW in PROVABLE AND PROFESIONALLY DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE that you will NEVER get better before your death, read on. If not, please stop reading NOW.



















































I cannot thank you enough for your willingness to participate. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact myself and I will be happy to answer any and all questions.

Let’s get to it, shall we?

Many of you may not know this but under our current POTUS, disability numbers have more than doubled, and if your are disabled between the ages of 18 and 49, you're *uqued (pardon my slang). Basically, governments work on lying to you so they can try and keep all the money AND the power. There's a little known rule that I did NOT include in my book for this very reason.

I keep this secret to keep you and me honest. I know there are people out there who will abuse the system. The system is also corrupt. We are, right now, esentially a Bannana Republic, and as such, the rich get richer and the poor get screwed.

With my exposure to the legal system, I know just enough to get me into and out of a lot of trouble. I wanted to become a lawyer myself, but got too sick before I had a chance to attend school and pass the bar. This isn't me whining. I'm probably much happier as a result. In fact, I'm sure of it. But I want to continue working when I can, volunteering as much as I can, and all the rest, so that I can improve my life and my level of fitness as I age and my rare disease gets worse. I want to help YOU do the same.


Now that that's out of the way, here is the first in a series of Q&A's





1. What is the nature of this business and how long have you been in this type of business?

I mostly sell gifts and design products. Almost everything I make and assemble myself, and all my crystal jewellery is sourced from high quality mines around the world. I started in April this year, officially, although the ball started rolling just before around the end of March!



2. Have you always had an interest in this area? Or was this something you created out of necessity?

A bit of both. I was in my last year finishing my degree and I didn't want to move back home, but of course, would have rent and bills to pay! At the same time, I was very unwell through a lot of my degree and feel lucky I made it through, so I had a lot to think about. In the end, as I always loved being creative, I decided I really wanted to create my OWN job selling the things that make me happy!


3. What type of illness do you have and how long have you had it?

When I was 12, I first developed depression and anxiety. My high school were very concerned throughout my entire attendance there, and I eventually got taken to a doctor when I was 15 and bumped as a priority to a mental health centre for children and adolescents. Although I received CBT and medication, I still had regular relapses. When I was 17, I had my first major suicide attempt not long after leaving child and adolescent services and was rushed to hospital for poison control. Since then, I've attempted suicide five more times and had several relapses. At 22 years on though, I'm still here! More recently I'm getting treatment for an eating disorder and have had to be really open about pain issues with my GP, but I'm making sure I stop covering it up and access the care I need.


4. How are you able to balance work and “sick days?

Fairly well actually! A slight cheat really, my partner is really supportive and helps me do the deliveries because my anxiety can make it stressful doing the daily post office run and sometimes just getting out of bed can be enough on my worst days! I do the bulk of the work but she helps picks up the odds and ends. Without her, it would be harder, but not impossible. Luckily most customers are very understanding and I actually have very quick postal times, so it wouldn't hurt if they got delayed by a day or do!

5. Everyone dreams of having a full-time, work-from-home job. What is something you would like to share with both "normal" people and people with disabilities... Some secret that you don't mind sharing that you think people REALLY need to know before attempting to make money while disabled?

Working from home definitely requires discipline and isn't an 'easy' route by all means, but when working in full time or even part time employment with set shift hours and expectations is unrealistic, it gives you the chance to keep busy and gain a sense of accomplishment and independence. Being disabled doesn't necessarily equate to a complete inability to work under any circumstances, often with a little extra support and adjustment of the traditional work structure are all that's needed. I firmly believe with the increase in technology, there is definitely an increase in opportunity for home work for anyone who needs that extra flexibility and freedom.

Thank you so much for taking the time to talk to me and my audience.

Absolutely, this was fun! Cheers!


Cheers, Anonymous! Come back any time ^_^