Nurse Kelley Sez: homogenius, founder of KosAbility, needs our help (new...
We're moving! Please read and rec FrugalGranny's new diary for homogenius!We all encounter a lot of different people here at Daily Kos. Sometimes those encounters end up having a profound impact on our...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: Community Fundraiser for peregrine kate - GOAL MET!! MWAH!
Oh hai! You guys rallied round peregrine kate and saw that she won a scholarship to Netroots Nation in Providence, RI next month. Good job! Our Kate is the founder of the essential group Monday Night...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: GOAL MET! FrugalGranny haz pants, teeth, and tires!
UPDATE: WE'RE THERE! ALL DONE!!!!!Got your attention? Ha! It's not the pants that bring me here today, although a new used pair would help. FrugalGranny is one of those Kossacks who is always around...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: ACTION! Please save an app for nonverbal kids!
David Hume wrote the background diary about this situation earlier today, but it didn't get a lot of attention.HERE'S WHAT THE PETITION SAYS: My daughter Maya is four years old and has a developmental...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: Crowdfunding can help with outrageous medical costs
As we sit here fearing the worst from the Supreme Court's upcoming decision about the Affordable Care Act, I'd like to share a possible way Kossacks having (or facing) unbearable medical bills can get...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: The Waldo Canyon Fire, the American Red Cross, and All Y'all
SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 2012Yet another blazing hot June day in a month of record high temperatures and drought. Early in the afternoon I stepped out on the deck after seeing a crawl on the TV saying there...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: What can you do by candlelight?
There I was about 9 PM last night, lounging on the couch, eating cheddar popcorn and Ranier cherries while I watched the Olympics. I was nice and cosy in my mountain retreat, using more than my fair...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: Our Scottie is going to the White House!
Scottie Thomaston, the beloved blogger formerly known as indiemcemopants, is the most amazing young man I've ever met. He was born in 1984 in rural Alabama, born with hydrocephalus and spina bifida,...
View ArticleUPDATE: Nurse Kelley Sez: Please send good thoughts to ulookarmless - with a...
Our beloved poet laureate ulookarmless, known to most of us as CJ, is in that thin space between life and death where anything can happen. I was out this morning, and came home to find an email from...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: ulookarmless has passed away
It is with a heavy heart that I must inform the community that CJ Campbell, who blogs here under the name ulookarmless, passed away this evening at Ventura County Medical Center. I just received the...
View ArticleKosAbility: The Astonishing Life of Colin John Campbell, 1944-2012
This community first came to know CJ Campbell - ulookarmless - in 2008. By then he was almost 64 years old, had lost an arm to cancer, and was suffering from aphasia, heart disease, epilepsy, and...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: Jessica Ridgeway was one of our own
Perhaps you heard about the precious ten-year-old who was abducted from a Colorado neighborhood as she walked to school on Friday, October 5. One week later - two days ago - remains found in a nearby...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: Help desperately needed NOW! (w/ OMG update!)
FloridaSNMOM has a diary up right now - LINK HERE - about having their electricity cut off today. This is a household that HAS to have power! She said, in a private message: I hate to ask, but we're...
View ArticleKosAbility: BREAKING: U.S. Senate Passes Gillibrand Amendment
I have little to add to the press release from Kirsten Gillibrand's office, save this: PRESS RELEASE FROM SEN. GILLIBRAND'S OFFICE Gillibrand Amendment in 2013 Defense Bill Lifts Restrictions on...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: Will y'all do me a favor, please?
This community is one of the great blessings of my life. You guys raise money for so many worthy causes that I consider it an honor to be called a Kossack. Community Fundraisers was established just...
View ArticleKosAbility: Time to get outraged about healthcare again
For forty-eight hours and more I've watched diary after diary stream by, some thoughtful, some ranting, most* about the need for better gun control. No one in their right mind would argue that...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: I've never done this before
There is a diary on the Recent list that should be read by everyone. It should be reprinted in the New York Times and reposted on every progressive blog on the internets. If you have children, read it...
View ArticleKosAbility: Surviving a Hospital Stay
It's that time of year: hospital admissions are escalating dramatically as people come down with the flu and, if they're disabled or elderly, develop life-threatening complications like pneumonia. I...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: racheltracks needs our prayers and energy
I just received a kosmail from the oldest daughter of beloved Kossack racheltracks, asking me to inform her friends and admirers here that she is on life support. Please go to the linked profile page...
View ArticleKosAbility: Announcing a New Moderator
KosAbility is a community diary series posted at 5 PM ET every Sunday by volunteer diarists. This is a gathering place for people who are living with disabilities, who love someone with a disability,...
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