Dancing with ALS and Life

    “Tell me, What is it you do with your one wild and precious life?” ~ Mary Oliver  7/15/25 The choice is yours!

I started working at age 15 waiting tables at a local restaurant and helping at my father’s business.  I completed high school, and then I was off to get my bachelor’s degree in social work. During my college years, I had few other small jobs for spending money. With all of those jobs combined, it tallies up to 35 years of earning a paycheck, paying into Social Security and saving for my retirement.  I loved my professional career as a social worker supporting individuals with intellectual disabilities and most of those years, serving the elderly in my community nursing homes. I was forced into retirement due to my ALS diagnosis and the disabilities that came along with it. Because social workers make a modest living, it meant, in order to make ends meet, I had to  apply  for disability benefits.   Applying for disability is a very interesting and long process because it requires tons of paperwork from the doctor validating the terminal illness and or disab...

 "When we are unable to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."   ~ VIKTOR E. FRANKL  10/4/24