Hyperactive-in-Chief: This is the Presidency on ADHD

Miracle Girl: Hyperactive-in-Chief: This is the Presidency on ADHD

Donald Trump displays the symptoms of ADHD. I should know, because I have it too. But maybe we should be glad that he can't get his act together. I know how crippling ADHD can be.

Fortunately, Donald Trump's case is severe.

Denied Access: Medicaid and Pre-Existing Conditions Under Trumpcare

Miracle Girl: Denied Access: Medicaid and Pre-Existing Conditions Under Trumpcare

Repeal and replace…with nothing. That's what the CBO estimate of the AHCA -- AKA Trumpcare -- boils down to if you have a pre-existing condition and gained coverage through the Medicaid expansion or ACA marketplaces. Just ask the CBO.

Trumpcare means no care at all.

Trans Discrimination: From Lunch Counters to Refused Hot Wings

Miracle Girl: Trans Discrimination: From Lunch Counters to Refused Hot Wings

"I’m not gonna serve that! I don’t even know what to call it! It ain’t a boy or a girl. It’s a thing and it ain’t of God."

That's what a zealotous waitress said at a Buffalo Wild Wings to her manager as she was refusing to serve a teenage trans boy out on a back-to-school shopping and bonding trip with his dad.

For this less-than-angelic evangelical, "Thou shalt not serve hot wings to trans youth" is the 11th commandment.

President Trump: Mimicking Nixon in More Than His Campaign

Miracle Girl: President Trump: Mimicking Nixon in More Than His Campaign

If you've always wondered what it was like to live through Watergate, here's your chance.

These President Trump scandals are the stories your children and grandchildren will be reading about in their history books. Pay attention.

Locked-in Syndrome: Recovering Against All Odds, Without God’s Help

Miracle Girl: Locked-in Syndrome: Recovering Against All Odds, Without God’s Help

Kate Allatt unlocked her locked-in state against all odds. My coma recovery was nearly as unlikely. Yet neither of us attributes our recovery to God.

Don't tell Kate Allatt that her difficult -- and unusually complete -- recovery from locked-in syndrome was a miracle. As she said, "It's called bloody hard work."

Stem Cell Regeneration Clinics: Waiting to Pounce on the Desperate

Miracle Girl: Stem Cell Regeneration Clinics: Waiting to Pounce on the Desperate

Predatory stem cell regeneration clinics are ready to pounce on a wife of a minimally conscious patient who has sought my advice. Will she take it this time?

What kind of desperately-needed hope can I offer Manuela?

Covert Awareness Club: Coma Comradery in the Internet Age

Miracle Girl: Covert Awareness Club: Coma Comradery in the Internet Age

This recovery blog has helped some coma survivors come to terms with their experiences. But I haven't been able to help a loved one of a patient until this week.

A wife contacted me via Coma Chameleon about her minimally conscious husband, asking my advice how to awaken him.

It was that very possibility that has lead me to keep this blog up in the first place.

AHCA: Grabbing for a Pre-Existing Condition Fig Leaf

Miracle Girl: AHCA: Grabbing for a Pre-Existing Condition Fig Leaf

Did Jimmy Kimmel's newborn son cause his heart disease? And did I do something when I was 11 to cause my lung damage? The GOP seems to think so.

Butt-covering is a pre-existing condition for GOP congresspeople as they pass the AHCA. That's the only coverage 8 billion will ever provide.

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Hell on Earth Before My Morning Coffee

Miracle Girl: Jehovah’s Witnesses: Hell on Earth Before My Morning Coffee

In which a pair of persistent Jehovah's Witnesses interrupt my journey to perdition while my cereal grows soggy.

Jehovah's Witnesses: "Do you want to see a better world?"

Me: "Not through God, who doesn't exist."