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Wednesday, June 28, 2017

CBO Report: 22 Million Lost in Trumpcare’s Tangled Thicket


Miracle GirlCBO Report: 22 Million Lost in Trumpcare’s Tangled Thicket
What a tangled web the GOP weaves when they practice to deceive...about the harms of Trumpcare. You may be wondering what can we do to prevent 22 million from losing their healthcare (according to the CBO report).
Plenty.

Friday, June 23, 2017

BCRA: Senate Trumpcare Bill Starves Medicaid to Feed the Rich


Miracle GirlBCRA: Senate Trumpcare Bill Starves Medicaid to Feed the Rich
The BCRA puts Medicaid on a starvation diet. To pay for a massive tax cut for the rich, the Senate version of Trumpcare throws Medicaid recipients under the bus...even the disabled.
Like me.

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Father’s Day: My Search for Connection with a Long-Lost Dad


Miracle GirlFather’s Day: My Search for Connection with a Long-Lost Dad

It was a weird -- and unexpected -- Father's Day. The oddest part of all was that I had one at all. I thought my father wanted nothing to do with me, but I couldn't have been more wrong.
What do you give a dad you have little in common with and haven't seen since you were three?
Maybe a daughter.

Friday, June 16, 2017

No, I Don’t Talk Funny, but I DO Need a Speech Therapist


Miracle GirlNo, I Don’t Talk Funny, but I DO Need a Speech Therapist

Yet another recovery (though not directly coma) related Miracle Girl post....
The teachers who complained that I 'talk funny and need a speech therapist' would be happy to learn that acid reflux finally caused me to require speech therapy.
In case you were wondering, my speech therapy doesn't require me to say, Stephanie Savage sells seashells by the sea shore.

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Mitch McConnell’s Trumpcare Legislative Hyperspace Bypass


Miracle Girl: Mitch McConnell’s Trumpcare Legislative Hyperspace Bypass
Thanks to Mitch McConnell, Trumpcare will have no committees, testimony, or deliberation in the Senate. Now that's a bypass demolition worthy of Vogons.
But even the Vogons were more respectful of legal niceties.

Friday, June 9, 2017

James Comey: Taking Down BOTH Presidential Candidates


Miracle Girl: James Comey: Taking Down BOTH Presidential Candidates

I was right (about James Comey). And, lordy, I was wrong...maybe (about John McCain).

Thursday, former FBI Director James Comey went from villain to hero as he laid the seeds for President Pinocchio's downfall. John McCain went from hero to villain to doddering old man.
But Donald Trump had the worst day of all.

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Conditional Deconditioning: The True Handicap Was in My Mind


Miracle Girl: Conditional Deconditioning: The True Handicap Was in My Mind

This post tells the backstory of my first, far from triumphant recovery. Instead of fighting to overcome disabling effects of my childhood lung damage, I gave up.

Deconditioning and illness made me feel like a victim. It took the complete debility of my coma and strokes to turn me into a fighter. I waved the flag of surrender, when my illness should've been a call to arms...and legs.

Friday, June 2, 2017

Global Warming and Extinction: Is the Great Dying Coming to an Epoch Near You?


Miracle GirlGlobal Warming and Extinction: Is the Great Dying Coming to an Epoch Near You?

What would T-Rex do if it had a chance to prevent the asteroid from crashing? More meat for us!
There have been 5 or 6 major extinction events in the history of the earth. Would those species have been as short-sighted as humans if given the chance?

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Coma Girl

Coma Girl

Not a miracle recovery, but a miracle of modern medicine

In 2013 I fell into a six-week coma and nearly died after I contracted legionella. The Legionnaire's disease was in turn triggered by immunosuppression caused by the prednisone I was taking for my rare autoimmune disease, dermatomyositis.

I suffered a series of strokes on both sides of my brain when the sepsis caused my blood pressure to plummet. I fell into a deep coma. My kidneys and lungs began to fail, as my body was began dying one organ at a time. My doctors told my loved ones to give up hope for my full recovery. They expected me to die, and even if I somehow lived, I would remain a vegetable or at best left so hopelessly brain-damaged that I would never be same. But unbeknownst to them, while they were shining lights in my eyes and shaking their heads, I was telling them in my coma-dream--my secular version of a near-death experience--to leave me alone because I was trying to get back to sleep. I was experiencing what is known as covert cognition, the subject of my Skeptical Inquirer article "Covert Cognition: My So-Called Near-Death Experience," which appeared in their July/August issue.

But it wasn't a miracle--despite what so many continue to believe--that I recovered so fully. I owe my life not to God, but the miracles of modern medicine, as well as the nature of the watershed-area brain damage I suffered, as I detailed in my article and in this blog.