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Babies having Babies: How Can We Help?

        There are so many teenagers and young adults having babies.  Whether they are having them by accident, because they think they're in love or they think it's going to keep their significant other.  The young ladies may not know how to care for the child due to no one showing them how to raise one.  Once the child is born and they are released from the hospital, they are own their own.  More recently the number of women trying or seeking the available programs has declined.  This is because the tedious forms, documentation requirements, participation requirements and long processing periods discourage them from trying.  Young ladies with babies and young children may not put them in school for fear of not being able to keep them clean, up to date with activities or feed them.  The system is said to be designed to help them.  Yet, I see young girls homeless with babies.  Also, I see children not in school because the...

What is Transverse Myelitis?

          This is a rare condition doctors are still researching.  Dealing with Transverse Myelitis since 2007 has affect my life a great deal.  Many tests, hospital stays, medications, prosthetics and more, the condition remains with you for life.  The disappointing thing is that we STILL do not have a reason as to why this affects so many people with no possible cure in sight.  Present day, babies are now waking up unable to walk with no explanation.  It's ridiculous and we need more research done!            A small background of my story goes as follows:  Prior to 2007, I had steroid injections every three months to help with my lower back pain.  The injections helped tremendously until one faithful day in the summer of 2007.  I woke up one morning to use the bathroom and fell out of bed.  I could not feel anything from the waist down except pins and stabbing like needles.  Th...