My mother (Gloria Smith, RN) is the FA of Davita Platte Woods Dialysis Center,
located Platte Woods, Missouri.(Platte Woods is a suburb of the Kansas City Metro area)
Recently the (the handsome and upcoming politician) Jason Grills (D),
paid a visit to my mothers facility.
The legendary visit was published in our local Kansas City Star paper (sample 1).
Jason Grill also informed many people about this visit, by including it in his monthly news letter (sample 2).
Mr. Grills is the States Representative of district 32, which includes Platte Woods.
I am very proud of my mother for providing loving care to her patients, and running a wonderful facility.
I am also impressed by Jason Grills, and his continuing efforts in health care.
I do not currently live or work in Missouri.
I do not work for Rep. Jason Grills (but i do want in the future to be a supporter).
I do not work for Davita, yet I do volunteer for my mothers clinic.
This is just a personal blog boosting about my Mama and Jason Grills.
I am just giving credit where credit is due, and it is due.
(this is not a press release, nor published by Davita or Jason Grills)
Thank you,
Jackkey Brown
Kansas City Star
August 24th, 2007
(sample1)
Rep. Jason Grill visits one of Kansas City's Leading Kidney Care Providers
Rep.
Jason Grill, D-Parkville, took time recently to visit with the staff
and patients at one of the nation’s leaders in kidney treatment
services when he made a stop at the DaVita Dialysis Center located in
Platte Woods. Rep. Grill toured the facility and learned about the
specialized prevention and treatment services provided by the DaVita
center.
Rep. Grill spent time talking with the manager of the facility, Gloria
Smith, RN, and also visited with DaVita Regional Operations Director
Richard Pedrick. Rep. Grill met with every member of the staff ranging
from nurses to social workers and facility operators. He also met with
some of the 36 patients currently undergoing dialysis treatment at the
facility.
“My visit to the Platte Woods DaVita facility was incredibly rewarding and a true eye opener for me as I was able to see first hand the amazing work they are doing to help people overcome serious kidney ailments,” said Rep. Grill. “The members of the staff are all amazing people who are dedicated to overcoming the odds and ensuring a higher quality of life for their kidney patients. We are blessed to have this amazing facility in our area where Missourians can have access to the most advanced care currently available.”
Davita Staff
Gloria Smith, RN
DaVita is the largest independent provider of dialysis services in
the United States. It has more than 1,300 outpatient dialysis
facilities and acute units in over 800 hospitals located in 42 states
and the District of Columbia. DaVita serves approximately 103,000
patients nationwide.
Jason Grills News Letter
for September about August
(sample 2)
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Tell us about an event that changed your life forever.
Submitted by Miss Scotch.It is so ironic that this was todays question!
ONE YEAR LATERIt has been one year to the day sence he left. It has been the worst year and the best year of my life.
My beautiful daughter has started school, and rains at the tip top of her education.
I wounder though some mornings getting ready when we are running late, like this morning.
She is well ajusted no matter the lack of her abusive father, her counsler sad so too!I get to have my gastric bypass soon, i do not have to have a sleep study, yeah!
So hopefully i will have it done by the ed of the summer.
i have accomplished more this last year than in 10 years with his dusty ass.I have been through my therapy to deal with getting over a abusive husband.
On my way to getting my divorce.
Had to get tested for aids and all the other goodies that he could have
given me by hanging out at porno both stores.
I have my restraining order that i had to get when he was stalking me trying to come back.
I have lived in several places now.
But now I am own my own, have my own house. My daughter has her own room,
with a door.
She has a great private back yard to play in.My life has been soooooooooo much better this past year.
I can only wait and hope for the up coming year.
I think I am going to celebrate this day now as my that i was freed.
I have also assisted 2 great mothers into getting help, no woman should be thrown around like a rag doll like they were.
I do not give a DAMN if it is a double standard.
No real man will ever lay a harmful hand on a woman, ever!
I no longer have to walk on egg shells worried about if i confront him or ask him to do anything, that it will end up physical. I no longer have to watch him sit on his ass day in and out, playing video games.
I do not have to beg him to get a job.
I do not have to worry that he will not let me use the car, can only spend 100 bucks a month on food.
I no longer have to lay down and fake orgasms just to get him off the top of me, or beg for pleasure.
I do not have to worry about the lights and gas getting shut off.
But most of all I never have to worry that that filthy son of a bitch will ever paddle my child with a fraternity paddle again.
Nor will he ever scream, hit, or degrade my child for ruining his games for asking him a question or that she has to wear pull ups at night. My beautifully angel will never be hurt by him if my body still has a pulse in it.
We are safe and FREE!
Free at last,
Free at last,
Thank the Goddess almighty,
We are free at last.
Have you ever started a trend? Followed one?
Submitted by It's Raining Calculators.
Who has not fell into fallowing a trend? Lets see I think the first real trend was New Kids on the Block when i was like 11. Then i was in to the grunge skater thing when I was a teenager. Then in my late late teens, early adult hood I was in to being a goth and into geekier stuff like D&D. I did the Atkins diet a few years back which sent my blood pressure through the roof! I think I still like some trendy things but I really like doing my own thing. I like allot of things, a variety which can not really melt into each other. I could honestly say I could not have a surprise party and invite everyone I know because the range of extreme different lifestyles of my friends, family, and associates would not congregate well.
Thank goddess it seemed to take forever but I got the results back. I have had the results for quite some time now. I do not have any parasites from that fucking man. I must say i was really happy to get the results and them to be soo positive, or negative in this case is a good thing.
I have been so preoccupied with the holidays and all the gift wrapping.
Senji has been a handful, but she learned how to read over Christmas break.
I am very proud of her it only took 3 hours the first day to read 2 sentences, then less and less as the days went on. Then one day it just clicked in her head, and she did it!
I am so proud, and hope that with positive guidance and good training she will turn out to be a decent human being.
Who would you like to kiss under the mistletoe?
Submitted by EmmyAngua.
HMM welll there is one guy I am smitten with that I would love to kiss under the mistletoe. There is this really nice cute smart black girl i know, who will remain nameless. But I have longed for her for years in secret but i do not think she would ever be bi or gay anytime in this life time. So for now I long for her full sultry lips, alone in my head where it is safe. I guess the only one i am actually going to get close to kissing is probably BB. so there you have my lonely pathetic life lol.
What are you thankful for?
I am thankful for the following.......
My daughter being well, smart and clever.
Being able to enjoy life with the rest of my kids and there parents.
My sister having a mulatto baby.
(long story for a later blog)
Having the few great friends I have.
I am trying to be thankful for my father absence of pain. But not having him here is almost paralyzing.
It is my first thanksgiving with out him. Last year I was with him just him and me alone in his apartment.
He was so angry that day. I miss him more than I can explain.
I am not thankful for my mom being a bitch.
I think my unworthy list is way longer than my thankful I think.
I am glad I am not with that dumb-ass to ruin our holidays with his nasty attitude.
Liberation this year has been something I am not use to as a adult. I am ashamed to say that but it will be ok.
I am thankful I do not have to watch the men I know killed and the women I know raped. It is happening right now. Duffar makes me greatful for all my liberties.
Windows, Mac, Linux - What's your preference and why?
Submitted by ramblingsbymark.
I would love to use Linux if it was more compatible with allot of the programs I need to use. I like and prefer to use Windows xp professional. It likes me and i seem to like it 4 now.
Do you like surprises?
I like good suprises, like a present, or a candy, or a half a tube of lipstick your color in front of your shrinks office.
I hate bad suprises, Suprise your dog died last month, or suprise your husban you were together with for 10 years was fucking men in dark stalls and you need a aids test!
so there u asked.
Let's make a list. What are 20 things in your life that you're grateful for?
Inspired by wyndslash.vox.com.
1 my daughter
2 my step kids
3 BuxomBrunette
4 url
5 the end of my fathers 6 year struggle to breathe
6 my nice and nephews
7 weed
8 music
9 fresh air
10 cigs
11 clean water
12 toe nails
13 platic
14 computers
15 internet
16 vox
17 sex toys
18 photoshop cs
19 bbs cute ass
20 music
Sometimes there are things in life that cause a stand still.
This thing makes me sick to my stomach, waiting the answer waiting to know the results. I found out yesterday news that could change my entire life. I found out that my soon to be X-husban, the whole time we were married, was slipping away to sex stores to join the back booth parties.
If you are unaware what that is I will tell you. Allot of sex shops have "booths" they have a chair or bench to sit on, and a TV behind plexy glass, and a slot to put your dollars in. Many men meet there to have sexual activities with other men, and prostitutes.
I do not have any problem with gay men. However I do have a problem with a person I was suppose to be having a
monogamous relationship with having high risk of catching aids and other std activities.
So now I have scheduled a std check up with plan parenthood.But the wait is drawing out soo long.
I have a 6 year old to think of.
It is a good thing he will never get her.
I thought for sure the worse the bastard could do to me was over. He hospitalized me 3 times and beat me at the drop of a dime.
He had me convinced no one would want me or my kid.
Then when my dad died i realized that I had to stop it all.
I no longer had a home to run to , and what if he hurt my daughter worse than he did me.
I went through a batter woman shelter for help.
Which was hard because not many if any shelters are ready to deal with the handicapped.
He had found another woman while he was with me who knew it all. I was a bitch that would not let him see his kids and I was a cunt for it.
She called me Monday, to apologize 6 months, 3 knocked out teeth, and a HUGE bald spot of hair missing later.
She wanted to give me some of the stuff he stoled from me, and tell me he was living less that 15 miles from me.
At first BuxomBrunette (my hetro life mate) was chewed her ass better than a shark could eat a tuna.
and she apologized fast and told us her story not too different than mine, little different from BuxomBrunettes.
She told me about how he liked to go to sex stores and have sex with men.
I thought for sure after I got me a lawyer and I had the stop of abuse order, plus winning custody of my great daughter, that the dramatization he could do was over.
Here I am rambling trying to not think that he has once again put my life in danger.
He is not choking me or punching me this time.
No this time there may be a silent parasite in me ready to suck the life out of my body for him.
When I was younger I always knew who I had sex with and when there last check up was, ALWAYS used condoms.
So I told one of my bestest friends in the world we will cal him "Bob".
Bob had not had very much if any sexual relations.
So I had sex with him a few times for whatever reason, after I had been in the relationship with my husband.
I thought the most adult thing, and to be a good friend would be to tell him.
He tired to slaughter me over the phone.
then I realize apparently I do not have many "healthy" relationships.
So I wait to find out if i need to redo my will again.
I wounder if it is how horrible this will be to my 6 year old.
yes i have made my bed etc.
But enough is enough already.
I do know no matter what i do not think relationships are worth the hassle.
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