Nurse Kelley Sez: A message from Miss Mayta
I am pleased to offer the following announcement from our own beloved Miss Mayta:Dearest J Townies, Rest assured that the J Town diary will post on time and on schedule as is required by the laws of...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: Goodnight, Irene! (w/poll)
Now here's a song that's been covered by all kinds of people. Who did it best? Have a listen tonight, then vote in the poll.GENTLEMAN JIM REEVES:ERIC CLAPTON:JERRY LEE LEWIS:
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: Our peregrine kate has good news ... and bad news
For those of you who don't know our peregrine kate, I can tell you she is a lovely and wise Kossack, mother of two much-loved daughters (26 and 14), bride of one year to our gifted ProvokingMeaning, a...
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Cranky Users: Don't do what I did!
SBJ, I gave jotter a donut this morning. (More about that in a sec.) If you haven't noticed it by now, tip jars have changed - the hide button is where the recommend button used to be. It's not my job...
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Cranky Users: Bring on the crank!
Okay, okay, I heard you! Here's your chance to sound off about recent changes to the site! What do you like? What don't you like? And please, for the love of Mike, if you've got something to say about...
View ArticleKosAbility: The lingering trauma of 9/11
This is not the diary I meant to write for today. When I first noticed that this tenth anniversary of 9/11 would occur on a Sunday, a KosAbility day, I reserved the date and intended to write about the...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: RIP - Anne E. Reuter
There is great sadness in today's pootie diary as triciawyse shared the news of the unexpected death of one of our own, HylasBrook. Hylas was one of the anchors in the pet diaries, there every day with...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: Honky Tonks and Country Drinking Songs
As a child of the sixties, I cut my teeth on rock n' roll. As a fourth generation Texan, however, I also acquired an appreciation for two-steppin' in honky tonk bars, the grungier, the better. If the...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: Class warfare allowed on daytime television show "The Doctors"
Dr. James Sears of the daytime medical talk show The Doctors chose to engage in class warfare during a segment about organic food myths, shown today on various affiliates nationwide. (I saw it on my...
View ArticleKosAbility: No longer a dizzy blonde, thanks to YouTube
Most people look at YouTube videos when they want a laugh, or to hear a particular song, or to follow important societal events like OWS. Did you know that there are YouTube videos posted by every kind...
View ArticleKosAbility: Sorry, group, no diary today
I emailed CJ this morning to let him know I can't be here at 5 ET for today's diary. A friend of his replied that CJ is in the hospital with chest pain. Then, today's diarist had to beg off because she...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: Thank you, Daily Kos
This is the kindest community on the whole world wide web. Your prayers and good thoughts and healing energy lifted me out of blackest fear and despair in a matter days, sent me a healer who is...
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Cranky Users: Sound off here about subscription problems
Last Thursday Markos wrote a diary about subscription changes (among other things) and he said, "The Cranky Users haven't been cranky enough lately. Makes me nervous."Be careful what you wish for,...
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Nurse Kelley Sez: I'm gobsmacked, grateful ... and greedy!
From the Daily Kos Community Quilt Hai, y'all! I won't take up much of your time today, but I need to thank a couple of people from the bottom of my overflowing heart. To the anonymous Kossack who...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: Last call for donations! w/update
Hai, Y'all! We have one absolute deadline approaching: at 12 MN PT lifetime subscriptions will cease to be available.There's one exception, however. Markos will allow all funds received in the small...
View ArticleKosAbility: New Year's Open Thread
Well, here we are at the beginning of what will hopefully be a better year for everyone. I qualified for membership in KosAbility ten years ago, but 2011 extended my list of qualifications for a group...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: The untold story of the small donor Santas
I was the luckiest Kossack involved in the the three week subscription drive that ended at midnight December 31, 2011. I offered my empty PayPal account for the use of a small donor drive, because lots...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: It took a nurse to diagnose me
The year 2011 makes me think of Judith Viorst's book title “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day”. It was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year that began innocently...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: Halp! Little Itzl needs surgery STAT! (Goal met!!)
UPDATE FROM NODDY:$2,340 so far!You are all awesome!For those who want to give something, I taked with the clinic manager, and she said while they can't take payments over the phone, they most...
View ArticleCranky Users: We're out of our onesies!
It all started on February 1, 2011, with this diary announcing - on DK3 - the formation of the Cranky Users Group which would help us make the great switch to DK4:Cranky Users is a group for Kossacks...
View ArticleKosAbility: Abandoned by Big Pharma, I designed my own medication
It is estimated that 27 million US adults suffer from osteoarthritis - that's 70% of adults between 55 and 78 years of age. It is a disease of the joints with both degenerative and inflammatory...
View ArticleNFTT: Nurse Kelley shares a wartime love story ♥
On March 20, 1942, a young first lieutenant sat down at a table preparing to write a letter. His stationery was embossed with a seal and a heading in red, "Field Artillery School, Fort Sill, Oklahoma"....
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Cranky Users: Casting perls before swine
A funny thing happened on the way to the Recent List Wednesday. KosAbility's diarist Clytemnestra wrote a wonderful, informative diary entitled Bad Blood and published it through the group's queue at 3...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: Why I vote for Democrats, w/update
I could give hundreds of reasons, I guess, but none better than this.I vote for Democrats in memory of jimreyn. I didn't know Jimmy until a few weeks ago (1/26/12) when he posted a diary asking for...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: Help desperately needed for jimreyn's widow (w/update)
Imagine ...You are a woman, 50 years old, married to the love of your life for 23 years.Life is never easy, never soft, but love makes up for a lot. You share children, pets, and - eventually -...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: WYFP? Come whine with me edition
Hai, y'all! It's Saturday night, time for good Kossacks to trot out their problems and get some hugs and support. If you're new to our little playpen, WYFP is an acronym for "What's your fucking...
View ArticleKosAbility: Open Thread
THIS DIARY IS CLOSED. TODAY'S KOSABILITY DIARY ISHERE!Whoops! Sorry to be late, y'all; our scheduled diarist is MIA, despite confirming with me yesterday. I was looking forward to her story, so I'll...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: Julie Waters has passed away (updated)
It is with a broken heart that I bring you this news today. I just received a kosmail from Julie Waters' beloved partner MoonWomyn saying this:I hate to drop it on you this way but I'm hoping you can...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: RIP, moe99
Another Kossack has passed away, moe99. Her children posted the following on her blog this morning:Our brave, beautiful mother passed quietly in to her next adventure early this morning while...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: My medical marijuana magical mystery tour (w/ update)
If you live in one of the sixteen states (and D.C.) that have legalized the use of medical marijuana, or if you live in one of the twelve states where similar legislation is pending, you may be...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: homogenius, founder of KosAbility, needs our help (new...
We're moving! Please read and rec FrugalGranny's new diary for homogenius!We all encounter a lot of different people here at Daily Kos. Sometimes those encounters end up having a profound impact on our...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: Community Fundraiser for peregrine kate - GOAL MET!! MWAH!
Oh hai! You guys rallied round peregrine kate and saw that she won a scholarship to Netroots Nation in Providence, RI next month. Good job! Our Kate is the founder of the essential group Monday Night...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: GOAL MET! FrugalGranny haz pants, teeth, and tires!
UPDATE: WE'RE THERE! ALL DONE!!!!!Got your attention? Ha! It's not the pants that bring me here today, although a new used pair would help. FrugalGranny is one of those Kossacks who is always around...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: ACTION! Please save an app for nonverbal kids!
David Hume wrote the background diary about this situation earlier today, but it didn't get a lot of attention.HERE'S WHAT THE PETITION SAYS:My daughter Maya is four years old and has a developmental...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: Crowdfunding can help with outrageous medical costs
As we sit here fearing the worst from the Supreme Court's upcoming decision about the Affordable Care Act, I'd like to share a possible way Kossacks having (or facing) unbearable medical bills can get...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: The Waldo Canyon Fire, the American Red Cross, and All Y'all
SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 2012Yet another blazing hot June day in a month of record high temperatures and drought. Early in the afternoon I stepped out on the deck after seeing a crawl on the TV saying there...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: What can you do by candlelight?
There I was about 9 PM last night, lounging on the couch, eating cheddar popcorn and Ranier cherries while I watched the Olympics. I was nice and cosy in my mountain retreat, using more than my fair...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: Our Scottie is going to the White House!
Scottie Thomaston, the beloved blogger formerly known as indiemcemopants, is the most amazing young man I've ever met. He was born in 1984 in rural Alabama, born with hydrocephalus and spina bifida,...
View ArticleUPDATE: Nurse Kelley Sez: Please send good thoughts to ulookarmless - with a...
Our beloved poet laureate ulookarmless, known to most of us as CJ, is in that thin space between life and death where anything can happen. I was out this morning, and came home to find an email from...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: ulookarmless has passed away
It is with a heavy heart that I must inform the community that CJ Campbell, who blogs here under the name ulookarmless, passed away this evening at Ventura County Medical Center. I just received the...
View ArticleKosAbility: The Astonishing Life of Colin John Campbell, 1944-2012
This community first came to know CJ Campbell - ulookarmless - in 2008. By then he was almost 64 years old, had lost an arm to cancer, and was suffering from aphasia, heart disease, epilepsy, and...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: Jessica Ridgeway was one of our own
Perhaps you heard about the precious ten-year-old who was abducted from a Colorado neighborhood as she walked to school on Friday, October 5. One week later - two days ago - remains found in a nearby...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: Help desperately needed NOW! (w/ OMG update!)
FloridaSNMOM has a diary up right now - LINK HERE - about having their electricity cut off today. This is a household that HAS to have power! She said, in a private message:I hate to ask, but we're...
View ArticleKosAbility: BREAKING: U.S. Senate Passes Gillibrand Amendment
I have little to add to the press release from Kirsten Gillibrand's office, save this:PRESS RELEASE FROM SEN. GILLIBRAND'S OFFICEGillibrand Amendment in 2013 Defense Bill Lifts Restrictions on...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: Will y'all do me a favor, please?
This community is one of the great blessings of my life. You guys raise money for so many worthy causes that I consider it an honor to be called a Kossack. Community Fundraisers was established just...
View ArticleKosAbility: Time to get outraged about healthcare again
For forty-eight hours and more I've watched diary after diary stream by, some thoughtful, some ranting, most* about the need for better gun control. No one in their right mind would argue that...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: I've never done this before
There is a diary on the Recent list that should be read by everyone. It should be reprinted in the New York Times and reposted on every progressive blog on the internets. If you have children, read it...
View ArticleKosAbility: Surviving a Hospital Stay
It's that time of year: hospital admissions are escalating dramatically as people come down with the flu and, if they're disabled or elderly, develop life-threatening complications like pneumonia. I...
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Nurse Kelley Sez: racheltracks needs our prayers and energy
I just received a kosmail from the oldest daughter of beloved Kossack racheltracks, asking me to inform her friends and admirers here that she is on life support. Please go to the linked profile page...
View ArticleKosAbility: Announcing a New Moderator
KosAbility is a community diary series posted at 5 PM ET every Sunday by volunteer diarists. This is a gathering place for people who are living with disabilities, who love someone with a disability,...
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