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My Very Poor HealthAround 2015 was the first time I considered myself disabled. As I said on the front page here, "I was told directly I would remain in a state mental hospital until I accepted Social Security support..." and "... I reacted with public protest. Then they asked for court mandated psychiatric evaluations ..." Obviously, from reading this website, I don't fit into the DSM-5 (diagnosis manual), but in my opinion, I now have a physical disability that does keep me from employment.My fingers have gone through several stages since foreign matter, introduced into my right index finger at a very young age, when I checked the tension on my bicycle chain and ran the sprocket through the nail, began to dissolve. At first, in the early '90s, at around age 30, I had a repeating blister on that finger and I began to have headaches. They eventually became severe, and lasted about sixteen years. Gradually, probably in 2000, I began to see blisters on ![]() A couple of years later I saw a little spot that looked like oil come out through my finger nail. At that point the headaches and the repeating blister began to disappear, but the other fingers remained very prone to blisters for all sorts of exposures. I live in a public housing apartment, and on weekends my neighbors have guests. I get worse hand problems every weekend from the added number of people using the doors and buttons.
After the Military - Mini-timelineAfter my discharge I went to UMass and graduated with a Bachelor's in Journalism. Immediately after I started publicizing against war, and got stuck near Cape Cod without work for years. During that time I wrote creative material, and got arrested at least seven times standing for what I believe in. No arrests for fights, but false testimonies, false arrest, etc., never leading to any convictions. The chants against Plymouth Police, I started in response to mistreatments, weren't accepted as true prophecy by enough of the courts, press, government, etc., to prevent my commitment to a mental hospital. Three officers on separate occasions had pretended not to know me after my canvas of about 500 homes in the immediate area two years before, a strong newspaper ad in The Boston Pheonix, campaigns at local colleges, a solicitation permit in Miami Beach, and more. My poverty level was legislated as prohibited from release, and therefore I was coerced to accept disability money.I took some of my first retroactive payment, and went to Israel until my money ran out. My Early School YearsI spent all my schooling in Needham from Kindergarten through High School. My town had some hidden dirt-bike tracks and I got my first motorcycle, a 50cc, at about age fourteen. Earlier, I lived next door to a veterinarian, and was brought to his office as his 'junior assistant' during school vacations a couple of times. My parents divorced when I was about fifteen, and I rebelled ferociously. Nearly my first act was to get a puppy, which unfortunately I didn't train. I'd become friends with the family of a big award-winning kennel, so I ended up bringing her to boarding school there. First, I learned everything she learned separately, and then together. I ended up with a great dog, and a life-long skill. I also began working very early, at the expense of my studies, in restaurants and machine shops mostly. I was an excellent worker by the time of my missed graduation, and a poor one when I reached graduation, because of my deep lack of sense of purpose. I'd quit school at sixteen, but went back the next year. I didn't take to alcohol much, but found marijuana use very helpful, until the year before graduation when I all but stopped.Two Lofty GoalsThe first, is to return the U.S. to the ideals our founders tried to instill about God. The dominant political parties have again outlived their viability. They must be dissolved, or reorganized and renamed, to bury the atrocious shame they've brought on us. They consider themselves spiritually superior to their predecessors, whom dissolved gracefully.My second goal is to change my religion, described in Isaiah as a 'branch'. Here is my very preliminary proposal on another website of mine, opening a new window, at jeshurun.co.il. (religious, enlightenment, prophesy, prophetic, modding, spirituality, autobiography, mike, mateek)
Links of interest...Haaretz.com - Jerusalem family finds 2,000-year old mikveh underneath living room. Governing.com - In a First House Votes to Stop Federal Meddling in Medical Marijuana Governing.com - Mentally Ill and Still Without Health Insurance Governing.com - Study Shows Impact of Cutting Planned Parenthood Funding An Israeli (cardboard) Bicycle That Could Change the World Center for Shelter Dogs - a tool for adoption centers and startups, developed in my old neighborhood. CQ - A Conventional Approach to Amending the Constitution Los Angeles Times - Congress quietly ends federal government's ban on medical marijuana Forbes.com - A Global Epidemic Of Senseless Energy Policy (Under a different title inside) My UMass-Amherst Rabbi - Filled in on holidays because we were between full time Rabbis. Forbes.com - Missing the Point on July 4: The Right to Vote Was Not The Main Achievement in 1776 - The author doesn't think we've lost our rights, but he lists three ideals he considers more basic than voting. Seattle Times - "New State Law Leaves Patients in Pain" - A touching story in a case where legislation to save money didn't list exemptions for diseases that are debilitating without proper medication. Governing.com - "Six State Waivers for Health Insurance Rules Approved in 2011" - This is the workings of a consumer protection provision of the new national plan that refunds money to all premium payers if agencies spend too much on themselves. Each insurer is considered state by state. Lighter Stuff
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