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::Author::  Name::Jersey Girl 46 From::Tampa/Wildwood, FL/NJ, United States Just a Jersey Girl lost in the sea. Trying to find her place back. View my complete 
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Healthcare 101 for me Today's watercooler topic is the Mammogram topic. While I have been fortunate to have awesome health coverage in my life, I never once take it for granted. When I decided to take a breather from the Law gig and write for a while, I was perplexed with the insurance questions. I choose a plan that would be affordable, but with a great amount of coverage. Having a mammogram since the age of 36; I have felt both confident and relieved that I could catch a problem early on if it happened. One of my high school friends was diagnosed with breast cancer and it has made it all too aware for me... Today's topic has me a bit more than peeved. As my associate writers and I gathered for a social meeting, it was discussed. If you are self employed and have insurance, which is a step better than the BCBS-BlueChip, you were able to get a mammogram because it was mandated that it be covered without the horrible copay of $500.00. Today? Not so much... if this passes and is put into action, how many lives will be lost? Who cares anymore? The insurance companies do not... It's a sad day. I worked for one of the best insurance companies in our country, ranked the highest in this and that, we didn't cover health, but all other areas, you betcha... After taking my leave I found I had serious rose color glasses on. Insurance is not what it was, and will never be the same again...  
Heading out to Cape Canaveral to see the Launch Today is a glorious day. The weather is perfect and the day couldn't be brighter. The launch is scheduled for today and I am very excited to go see it. My bestest friend and I are going and he is very excited. The space program is very precious to us and is very endangered. This president could discontinue it and we would be in a world of hurt. I am quite sure the powers that be have good reasons for the space program. I often think it's a spy unit for us to track nucs and such, but that would be way too silly for even me to think up. So off to see the Space Center and... drop by I Dream of Jeannie Blvd one more time... Opps can't forget Ron Jon's either...
Missing in Action As I gear up for the meeting with the editors, the publisher, the agent, the crew that want to take my book to the final chapter so to speak, I am nervous and I am having all kinds of pangs of "nooooooooo I don't want this book published" Seems unbelievable, but as romance writer I get too attached sometimes to a story this latest one is almost a mirror image of a love in my life. This story has a different ending than the real story and in a strange turn of events, the real story is starting to mimic the story ending...Scary! I love my passion of writing that has turned into a paying career. I also love that the travel to nice places without the book signings and the pomp and circumstance. I am back from a small writers conference and I am heading out to the Romance Writers Conference in NYC. I have purchased more clothes than the 3 suitcase allotment, and now I have to choose what to take. But at the end of the day with my latest story, it's personal. It's not business it's personal. Wish me luck I can surrender this baby. If not I am on the hook for that hefty advance...
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