Dead Broke Vegas Diva Faces Healthcare Nightmare
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jeneane Marie Cranert boasts of recently touring Europe with the Funk Brothers and Tito Jackson and warming up the stage over the years for such stars as Frank Sinatra, Liberace and Wayne Newton.
It sounds glamorous, only Cranert is telling the story from beneath the covers of her bed, where a bone disease has confined her for weeks because she doesn‘t have health insurance and can’t afford hip replacement surgery.
The 53-year-old singer’s face is bloated, her speech punctuated by tearful fits, shrieks and long gasps.
“It hurts,” she yells.
The Las Vegas Strip is ripe with entertainers hungry for fame and fortune. They sing, dance, tell jokes and play their instruments. Most gauge their success by the times they share the stage with headliners like Tony Bennett, Charo, Elvis Presley and Dean Martin.
But stage life comes without the promise of steady paychecks and employer-sponsored health insurance.
“Entertainers are second-class citizens until they make it and then they are royalty,” said Tony Sacca, who has been singing in Las Vegas for 30 years. “We help each other out.”
Sacca heads the Showbiz Society, a charity group that raises money for Las Vegas performers in need. He and more than a dozen other performers will charge $22 a head at a benefit concert Sunday to raise money to pay for Cranert’s medical bills. Jim Marsh, owner of the Skyline casino, said he will match up to $6,000 of the donations for a bill that could exceed $100,000. Cranert has applied for Medicare but is not sure she can wait for her paperwork to be processed.
Cranert said she was diagnosed with avascular necrosis in August, three months after returning from Spain with Tito Jackson’s tour.
Blood no longer reaches her hip, which could lead to the bone’s eventual collapse. A blood clot could reach her heart, and she could die.
It began as a dull ache and matured into a piercing pain. Now the tiniest hip swivel feels like someone ripping her flesh with a hot poker.
She can’t stand up, let alone dance.
“For me to lay here like this,” she said from her bed, her French manicure clutching a blanket around her chin, “it is the most depressing thing I’ve ever gone through.”
The recession has been hard on Las Vegas. Unemployment is at record levels and jobless people don’t go to shows often.
As singing gigs dried up, Cranert accepted her first office job ever. She was paid $9 an hour to help rent out apartments. The part-time job didn’t come with health insurance.
Her friends would pull her from bed in the morning, helped her down the stairs of her two-story home and into her car. But with each wiggle of her hip, groin or leg, she screamed in pain.
She crawled into bed and stayed there. She has no savings and her 2,251 square-foot home is in foreclosure.
Cranert started singing and dancing when she was 3, pushed to perform by her stage mom in Cincinnati, Ohio.
“I wanted to be Bette Davis,” Cranert said.
After high school graduation, she joined a pop band named “Colored Rain” and toured the nation, doing shows in Alaska, California and Texas. During a stop in Las Vegas in 1980, she climbed on stage in front of Don Rickles, who she said liked what he heard.
She performed up and down the Las Vegas Strip. Everyone knew her. She had a three-octave vocal range and a quick wit.
“She‘s probably one of the best I’ve ever heard in town,” said impersonator Babe Pier. “She can sing like hell, I’ll tell you that.”
Cranert, who goes by Jeneane Marie on stage, said she opened for Bill Cosby, George Carlin and Rickles.
She also did her own show at casinos along the strip. In videos, she roars out soul music in between poking fun at herself and two-stepping across the stage.
But the money is all gone, she said.
The house, which she bought for $195,000 in 2002 before her divorce, is now worth $144,000. She has not made a mortgage payment in about a year.
She already owes a big hospital bill from a pneumonia attack in 2009.
Cranert isn’t sure how much she owes, but she knows it could leave her homeless.
“I don’t even open them,” she said of her medical bills, “because I can’t pay them.”
Next to her bed is a photograph of her daughter, Bethany, a 25-year-old unemployed cocktail waitress.
Cranert’s parents are dead. She has no one to turn to for a loan. She’s gained 60 pounds in six months.
“I just lay here. That’s all I do,” she said.
If Sunday‘s benefit doesn’t succeed, the performers say they will throw another concert, and another one, until they can afford to buy her a new hip.
“Entertainers, we are independent contractors, and the last thing you have is money to buy health insurance, which is sad,” Sacca said.
Cranert acknowledged that she should have been more responsible with the money she earned from her craft.
“If you want to get into showbiz, you better have a business degree, you better save and be smart,” she said. “It sounds so exciting. ‘Oooooh, I’m on tour with Tito Jackson.’ By the time you come back, you have $100 to show for it.”
Cranert’s only collateral is her voice, a big personality and the hope that she will be able to perform again.
“It’s who I feel like God made me to be,” she said. “It’s all right. I’ll be on my feet next year, singing my ass off. You’ll see.”
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Online: Showbiz Society: http://www.theshowbizsociety.com/
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Comments (166)
Tellthetruth
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 11:56amI don‘t know why I thought commenters on this site would be of a higher caliber than some I’ve seen. I suppose because Beck sponsors it, but I can tell you…I’ve been reading it for a while now and you folks have totally turned me off. I’m a conservative, NRA member, self-supporting, tax-paying American, tea party member, worked in the elections to help defeat liberals………..BUT……..reading these mentally and emotionally challenged comments is the end. Done..gone…outta here.
Report Post »Oil_Robb
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 12:13pmDont let the door hit you on the way out……
Report Post »M31Sailor
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 1:32pmBuh by
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 2:40pmAm I reading the same posts? I am seeing lots of sympathy. Lots of empathy, and a smattering of calls to help. Um…..I am not processing what the problem is @tellthetruth. What do you want? A call for government hearings,intervention. Should we all coo soothingly? Ain’t gonna happen, take a box of tissues and don’t let the door hit you. Oh yeah, quit the NRA we don’t need you, and quit calling yourself conservative, you have no idea what the term means.
Report Post »Rob
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 5:14pmGoodbye!
Report Post »ensemble
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 11:50amThere is no reason to kick someone when she is down. I did some research on her online and in the past, she has given her talents to hundreds of fund raisers, she has donated and she had sung for free to raise money for individuals and for charities. I admire that. I do wonder..where is mention of all of the places she has entertained and the artists that she worked with and opened for? I did read that she worked overseas for a long time with Tito Jackson..couldn’t he use the good PR and pitch in a bit for a fellow performer? Just asking.
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 2:29pmThat is an excellent point. There is quite a list, UM…..is anyone listening??? Is there a website to donate yet?? These folks could do an awful lot more than we here on the blaze could do.
Report Post »tranquilrider
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 9:50pmBravo!! The only poster that bothered to check the facts before ranting like a Beckerhead. Well done my friend
Report Post »tranquilrider
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 10:02pmHere is an example of what happens when you rant without checking facts.
http://www.politifact.com/ohio/statements/2010/dec/03/glenn-beck/glenn-beck-paints-beleaguered-wilmington-ohio-real/
Report Post »Iamtheoracle
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 11:37amwha wha wha — I am sorry she is sick – it can be frightening to feel so alone. She could have sold her house a year ago, she could rent it out, she could take in boarders, she DOES qualify for food stamps, disability, etc… maybe someone could help her figure it out. Yes many of you have pointed out – she is not alone but there are MANY organizations in Las Vegas that would and could help her… maybe she goes to a church… sorry to be so cold hearted – but even health care is provided at any hospital – no one is denied treatment and they ALL have charity / fee waiver programs for the indigent. Good for her friends for helping – but I get tired of the whining . We all need to be better stewards of our own lives
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 11:15amI can’t say I have no empathy for such people. I do. But this is yet one more example of some one who had the world right where she wanted it and was unable to control her lust (for whatever), because she obviously lost what she had earned.
Today there are millions of people in her exact position. I’m one. And no one is extending a helping hand to them. Those of us in this position are doing our best to fight the good fight and doing it without crying.
Report Post »YankeeBlue
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 11:10amCall me a hatemonger, but does anybody else find her running to Medicare insulting? Because of her years of not preparing for the storm she’s now facing, she expects the taxpayer to step in and pay for her medical needs? It’s insurance, not a taxpayer-funded discount program for when you happen to need it.
Don’t get me wrong – I feel for her. My family has been in a similar position, actually, and had to come up with thousands of dollars to pay medical bills, too. The right thing to do is to appeal to her friends (apparently she is with the charity concert), churches, and local community. I might even make a donation myself if an website is made available to do so. This is how her situation should be handled – not by the US taxpayer.
I wish her the very best in tackling this storm and emerging on the other side stronger for it.
Report Post »Blazing
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 11:08amThe problem is affordable health insurance is tied to group plans managed by an employer. Why? After WWII, the federal government created wage and price controls to “control” businesses. Businesses responded by offering employer paid health insurance (and other benefits) to attract employees…since they were restricted from offering higher wages.
The solution is to allow group policies across state lines and let people control their own insurance.
Report Post »Brooke Lorren
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 11:00amHope the benefit works out for her. At least she has people that can do something to try to help her out. There are a lot of people who don’t even have that. I know plenty of people who have to go to Mexico to have their teeth pulled out because they can’t afford a dentist here.
For those of us that are still healthy, there are two things that we can learn: if we can afford it, get health insurance. Whether we can afford it or not, we need to take care of ourselves now, because even if we have health insurance today, there might not be a medical system in place to go to in two years. There’s no guarantee that the treatment we need will be available in the future.
Report Post »mcpbob
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 10:56amLife is full of decisions, we all make them, and we have to live with them, good or bad, self responsibility is key…. it is obvious in her case she made bad decisions, and now she has to live with them, too bad for her but i know some people will feel bad for her and make this an arguement for universal health care which is just bullcrap… i have lived my life very conservatively, i have prepared for the future, i do not live in the moment, i never over extend, so when i see people that live in the moment and suffer later on, it is just too bad for them, i really don’t care.
Report Post »OKFineSure
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 10:44amOh you know where this wouldn’t be an issue…the UK. Nobody is denied care because they cannot pay. They treat people according to medical need and not according to finances. Who cares if she mismanaged her money? Nobody deserves to suffer needlessly. Honestly, the American right is the least-Christian incarnation of humanity to ever set foot upon this planet.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 10:53amEvidently you missed the story about the person in the UK that needed a heart transplant and was put on a three year waiting list. So they came to the U.S. to get it done.
Report Post »not funny
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 10:57amIt doesn’t have anything to do with Christianity or any other religion. It’s about people making good choices and common sense–realizing that actions have consequences. That is not a right or left issue. England is a small country and may be able to afford to cover everyone’s health issues, but someone has to pay for the care that is given. That is where the problem lies.
Report Post »OKFineSure
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 11:03amWell Heavyduty,
Report Post »I worked in the NHS in London. I never saw a patient wait more than a month to see a specialist and if they had to have essential surgery, I never saw them wait until they died. There is a shortage of organs in the US as well because too few people are organ donors. People commonly die on the waiting list for organs in the United States as well. You probably don’t know, either, that private insurance exists alongside the public NHS in Britain and that if that person could have afforded to get treatment in the US, they probably could have afforded insurance in the UK. Having insurance in either country is absolutely no guarantee that you will receive an organ. That has very, very little to do with the NHS, sir.
heavyduty
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 11:05amWhat you talking about OKFineSure? I care if she mismanaged her money and is now crying in the news for help You’re right about no one deserves to suffer needlessly. She could sell her house and find a smaller single story house to live in.
Report Post »She could have gotten health insurance like the rest of us. I paid for health insurance for years while I was in good health. A lot of people have, but evidently she chose to spend her money on materialistic stuff.
Christianity has no part in this. This is pure common sense. She could be a Christian for all I know, and pray that she is. But Job was a upright and man that knew God. But yet he went through a lot of personal and physical pain his self.
So if you would please keep your comments to the facts of the story. If she asked Christians to help her, they probably would. But it seems to me that she is asking the very people who she knows the best.
heavyduty
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 11:11amOKFINESURE: Never said that I knew anything about the UK. I was stating about a story on UK healthcare. But I have heard other stories about other people waiting for surgeries that didn’t get it because they expired. Like I said in my post. I can’t afford a knee replacement and I have health insurance. I can‘t work because I can’t stay on my knee long enough. But this is a common sense issue. If she had insurance and couldn’t afford it then I would be all for her.
Report Post »mpa
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 1:55pmOKFINE: It seems that your inherent problem is that you think that government needs to be involved. To that I can only say, “The Hungry Sheep Look Up”.
No reasonable person in this forum has suggested that people shouldn’t help this woman, but pointing out that this person who *had the means to provide for herself* chose not to is no crime.
The fact that she has people around her to help is a blessing, an example of the way things should work (no government interaction necessary), but it doesn’t change the fact that resources that otherwise could have gone to truly needy people are now going to help someone who chose not to plan.
This is *not* an example of why healthcare should be nationalised. This is an object lesson in why we need to teach people from the time they are very young to be self-sufficient and to build strong local community networks. It is a fallacy to think that a distant and mammoth federal government is capable of making better decisions from afar than the aggregate decisions of millions of well-informed and self-interested individuals acting and making decisions locally.
Big Strong distant central government is a recipe for sheep. There is a reason why its powers are limited by our Constitution.
PS: The Ant and the Grasshopper has been mentioned earlier. I’d like to add: The Mississippi Experience vs The New Orleans Experience after Katrina.
Report Post »DMD
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 10:25amMy father is self employed and guess what?
Report Post »He pays for his insurance himself instead of buying neon colored ******.
Sounds like a dumb personal choice to me.
felina g
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 10:38amAre the neon more expensive ?
Report Post »M31Sailor
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 1:31pmWho care’s how expensive, she used her food stamps to pay for the dildoe’s
Report Post »mark t
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 10:22amThis woman should be asshamed of herself, I have trouble feeling sorry for beggar‘s sitting on a 200k assett with just as much in content’s, maybee she should go visit one of the tent cities in vegas, and see who’s helping those people out?????
Report Post »Tellthetruth
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 11:45amWhat a lousy human being you are.
Report Post »tranquilrider
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 9:47pmJerk!!!!!!
Report Post »not funny
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 10:15amI don’t know why people opt to put health insurance on the bottom of their wants or needs list. They spend their incomes on stuff they don’t need and gamble that they will stay healthy. A french manicure is symbolic of this thinking. I know this sounds harsh, but people need to get their priorities straight.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 1:51pmThank you I thought I was the only one who caught the french manicure and questioned it..
Report Post »DavB
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 10:15amAesop’s, ‘Ant and the Grasshopper’ fable come to life. Whatever hundreds of years ago, the lesson behind the story still holds true today.
Either that, or Greece, where everybody is a looser.
Pick ‘em.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 10:13amWhile I can sympathize with her on her pain, because my dad had this disease in both hips. He had both hips replaced, but this was back in 1963. He was a veteran. But he still lived with hip pain the rest of his life. He worked and rode a bike 12 to 15 miles a day to keep the muscles tight to keep the ball from slipping down in the socket and catching the nerve that runs through the hip. But this woman made good money for a lot of years. She should have managed her money better. But like most people they look too far in the future.
While this happened to my dad when he was in his thirties, we had to sell our home and move in with my mother’s parents until we scraped enough money together to buy a small camper trailer which we lived in for about 10 years. But we finally got the bills paid and back on our feet.
I am glad that there are people willing to help this woman and try to get her a new hip. But then again she should sell that two story house and get a single story because as heavy as she is, she won’t be able to climb those steps for a long time.
I will pray that she can get her surgery so that she doesn’t have to live with that much pain. But then again I have a knee that is completely shot and no way to pay for it. So I just live with the pain everyday, God blessed me with a wonderful wife that works 12 hour shifts at a prison to make ends meet. I take care of her parents that live with us. I have insurance but doubt that I will be able to pay the bills to get the knee replaced.
You see probably a lot of people have sad stories to tell. I am not making fun of this woman, but she could have managed her money better.
Report Post »EyebrowsLaMana
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 10:12amIt’s very sad that things are the way they are, it’s also very sad that her mom pushed her to be an entertainer rather than go to college…. very sad indeed. I hope it all ends well for her and all the others out there in a similar situation. This story urges me to eat better, get back to karate, and get going on school!
Report Post »Tucsonan
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 9:46pmCan’t blame it on mom….she has to be accountable for her own situation. I feel for her and hope it all works out ok, but again, her situation should not be exploited for the sake of Obamacare. It is obvious that she did not plan well for her future and unfortunately, this is the case for alot of people out there. Her luck ran out. With some help from her community, hopefully she will get through this. If she does, I hope she takes the time to pay her community back somehow.
Report Post »psst
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 10:07amA sad riches to rag story.
Report Post »Not planning for your old age when the $$ were rolling in. I feel sorry for her.I hope her outcome will tun out well. But I doubt it.
C’mon Dingy.. This IS your town.. You’ve been telling /preaching/babbling the stories about how good Hussein’s marxist care will be..Step up to the plate and share some of that Casino “loot”
I’m sure you have quite a few mil squirreled away.
Plus those shady land deal loot..
C’mon Dingy.. put your illegal $$ where your lying mouth is.
From each according to their abilities (crooked in your case). To each according to their needs. She IS in need. This is the Marxist Utopian mantra. And Dingy, you are one hell of a marxist.
Oh well. it human nature for most when we are young and on top of the world, that we don’t realize old age and a deteriorating body is only about 40 short years away.
But when we are young, 40 years seems like an eternity .Then Bam, it’s upon us before we can blink an eye..
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SlimnRanger
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 10:01amin our lives there will always be “i shoulda done this or done that, i know when i was younger i didn’t think about health care so much and then having to go thru cancer treatmenmts left me unable to do the things in life i enjoyed but i am one of the lucky ones God allowed me to be cured but my energy level is still low i to am on disability Snow but i give God thanks everyday of my life,each day i count a blessing,so i pray for this lady for a full recovery
Report Post »Rob
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 9:58amMy mom told me when I was a child to plan to geat a job with health care… and I did. Why didn’t this woman? Parasite….
Report Post »TxGold
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 10:10amHow kind of you!!!!
Report Post »M31Sailor
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 10:33amTXgold
How do you propose to support 53% of people when they come for the handout’s for healthcare, food water, big screen TV’s housing, a nice Lexus? Must be nice to be a Kennedy, Rockerfeller, Pelosi,. Have a nice day.
Sailor
Report Post »Rob
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 11:35amIt is not my JOB to be kind or the governments. Take care of yourself and your family and quit being parasites.
Report Post »Tellthetruth
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 11:50amHow fortuitous that you haven’t had any tragedy in life that yanked that smug attitude of yours! Do you think you can plan having a baby with 7 heart defects that the surgeries and curing him left us hundreds of thousands in debt…even with insurance? Now, years later, he has had an aneurysm that’s left him, his wife and baby in the same situation? There are things you can’t control that send you reeling…….no planning can take care of that you jerk.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 12:22pmTellthetruth,
Amen to that sister! My wife had an un-expected heart attack that snowballed into multiple health problems. We are still fighting these problems today. I thank God that we were prepared, otherwise we would have been on the street by now. Teach your children well, then pray that they grow up using your lessons to their advantage.
PatriotShops.com
Report Post »girone
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 12:33pmmessage for: tellthetruth Everyone has sympathy for those TRULY in need. We do not have sympathy for a talented 53-year old adult who chose to spend, spend, spend and not save one dime for her future. You can have sympathy for idiotic behavior and I’ll save mine for real tragedies.
Report Post »blacksmith
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 12:36pmThis lady is one of the folks that Nancy Pelosi was referring to in her health care rant. These people should be able to follow their dreams without being burdened by health care costs such as insurance.The rest of us should pay for the people that want to pursue their dreams.When you put a human face on a story people tend to lose resolve in opposition to providing health care for everyone.People role the dice everyday and take chances that many of us would not take. I do not mountain climb or jump out of airplanes because I don’t want to take the chance. Her choice was to attempt to be a star and be famous. We all have to live with our choices. This is just a fact of life and your choices come with consequences.I should not have to subsidize her or anyone elses choices.
Report Post »NapoHill15
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 12:43pmROB
Human beings are herd animals . . . You are wondering freely in the desert; but continue on, we are not your lost herd . . .
M31Sailor
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 1:10pmNever having had a cigarette in my life , I continually see my liberal friends bum cig’s off other people. When I ask them how they can afford these cancer sticks , they say they smoke OP’s. Other People’s
Sailor
Report Post »Zorro6821
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 7:57amYou are dumber than a rock. Havey ou ever heard of pre-existing conditions…you cannot get coverage. Also Entrepreneurs like myself pay more in health care than yo probably earn. Secondly, why do you have to depend on a “employer”, you should buy your own. But I guess you expect someone to cover your own insurance. On day you will not have an Employer, Then what? If can buy insurance you will pay approx 12k-14k a year with 20% deductible. Do your homework and turn off the tube!!!
Report Post »Dixon Mason
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 9:51amHow to help? Throw a paypal account or something up on the site and I’ll give. Make it easy and safe. I‘d need to see it on a site like this or I won’t trust it.
There’s a business for you: A website that vets charitable causes and then provides easy giving links.
Report Post »Buck Ofama
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 10:16amYou might try this site and contact Tony Sacca. Sacca heads the Showbiz Society, a charity group that raises money for Las Vegas performers in need. I couldn’t find anything readily available on the site linked directly to this lady. But if you contact Mr. Sacca I‘m sure he’d be happy to give you any information for donations.
Showbiz Society: http://www.theshowbizsociety.com/
Here’s Mr. Sacca’s direct email address: tony@elvs.tv
Report Post »Tellthetruth
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 11:43amHere is the link to a charitable giving/donation website my daughter has used several times to raise money for her movie………it’s user friendly and works really well.
http://www.chipin.com/
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 3:02pmI sent an email asking for details, If I hear back I will pass the info along.
Report Post »Zorro6821
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 7:50amWonderful that we have to beg for healthcare. Meanwhile Medicaid covers most illegals and minority classes that the taxpayer funds. If anyone for a moment thinks that they have adequate healthcare you are sorely mistaken. The CBO reported that people WITH INSURANCE will nee at least 100k+ to cover copays and non-covered medical bills when they retire. So much for freedom in our golden years. Most folks will have medical debt that will crush them.
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 9:46amShe should get in touch with a faith healer. They can help
Report Post »Zorro6821
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 7:42amWelcome to the greatest Health Care System On Earth. NOT!!!! Folks this can be you!!
Report Post »benrush
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 9:43amWhen she was earning good money, did she eat a sensible diet and practice sensible hygiene?
Report Post »This further underscores the need to fight acidosis and keep one’s PH balanced by eating alkalizing foods. It’s a good bet she never would have contracted this illness if she had balanced PH.
GeeWhiz
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 9:58amWhat on earth are you talking about? Everyone has a ‘balanced pH’ in general, unless they’re acutely ill. You don‘t need to ’fight acidosis’, your body does that for you.
Report Post »Ianbro
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 10:57amWhat are the people like on the planet you come from?
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 11:30amor if she wrapped her head in tin-foil to keep her brain waves private and wore a special latex suit to preserve and maintain her precious bodily fluids.
if she had done that, as well as stockpile gold, none of this would have happened and she’d be opening for the Jimmy Castor Bunch in Branson, Missouri dueting on “Troglodyte” and be double-parked on Easy Street.
did you know there is enough hydrogen in your brain to make an h-bomb just by concentrating your chi and holding your breath for 10 minutes in a pressurized room?
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sorry. had to do it.
hope she gets better.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 12:48pmhttp://www.infowars.com/shocker-feminizing-uranium-fluoride-lithium-in-water-to-be-exposed-on-ventura-tv-show/
Report Post »Deb C
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 2:46pmI like this theory…ask any gardener about the value of a balanced PH
Report Post »Zorro6821
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 8:01amSo I guess with your plan, you will live for ever and never get sick. You will also never get into an accident and possibly break something, you will never get cancer, or dementia. You must be god!
Report Post »sackley5
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 3:39pmWell, laud de da. Aren’t we full of ourselves!
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 9:42amouch
Report Post »HKS
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 9:41amThat is a sad story, my question is how about the union that show people get hooked into. That should be something that the union should have covered. You know a lot of money changes hands in that business and in this day that should not be a problem. Oh, I must have forgot, unions usually rip off all the money for other things and then dump it on the government.
Report Post »M31Sailor
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 10:28amHKS
That was what I thought exactly when I read this article. The union only want’s money, to be used for enriching the union leaders. Just like our Obummercare will tax everyone in order to enrich the elite political class. Almost time for the second American Revolution
Merry Christmas
Sailor
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 11:00am@M31 Sailor
Dead on.
Report Post »Cpriestess
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 11:23amThere are only unions for very specific fields. Sag – screen actors guild, AFTRA American Federation of television and Radio Artist, AEA- Actors Equity Association -Theatrical actors, none of these applies to variety Artists like this lady. My heart goes out to her but these are the risks you take when you follow your dream. And if you follow those dreams you MUST make damn sure you can afford it in the long run. I am one who knows…
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 9:39amI feel sorry for her situation but there are lots of people out there in the same boat only they aren’t lucky enough to get this kind of publicity. I hope all ends well for her.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 9:50amUnderstood as well here. Being on disability myself for a fair amount of time is not all it is cracked up to be; at least I do have a small studio apartment though. She, like a lot of us, is in a classical set of Catch-22. You just have to do the best you can, with what you have, work on saving where and how you can, and keep asking of God to help you find the way through it all.
@Grandmaof5
Morning, read your weather report you posted yesterday, cold, cold, cold!!! One of my neighbours had a small problem with a new skillet – cast iron, so you already know what happened – everything kept sticking to it. And yes, he had not seasoned the pan first; so his pancake burn, fire alarm go off, and now my part of the complex smells like charcoal bread mixed with cooked blueberries.
At least the day has promise to be an interesting one.
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ChiefGeorge
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 12:35pmAgreed! Many many more out there who are finding themselves at this late stage in dire straights. This is one story of what is happening to the American people. We got short changed and lied to for years by those at the top and now the results are showing for all to see.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 2:01pmSnow, that can’t help you breathing very much, though. Yuck, hate the smell of burned anything. I hope your apartment airs out soon and your afternoon is a pleasant one. Weather headed back down to the 30‘s and 40’s this week, which will be a nice break, but we need more rain. Got a little this morning. Have a good afternoon.
Report Post »BlazingBlonde
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 9:36amVery nice that many are stepping up to help this woman. Unfortunate that she was unable to manage her money in a more sensible manner while she was earning good money.
Report Post »I
sawman
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 1:24pmAgreed that money management is essential for everybody, but it’s only part of the dilemma many face these days. At this particlar time, my financial dilemma is in fact my health insurance premiums. I am so anal about getting it paid that my household sacrifices good healthy food, and we have “no” recreational budget. I’m only getting the essentials paid for, and the really important stuff is on the back burner, and has been for years. Health insurance premiums and high deductibles have eaten in totality, our savings, as well as my retirement funds. It’s wonderful she has a group of folks who are on her side, but even if she had health insurance, she would still be in trouble. I am in need of two surgeries, one of which is heart related, but because of the high deductibles I was forced into, I am unable to get those surgeries.
Report Post »Highland
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 1:26pmI‘m sorry she’s in pain, but who doesn’t know you should plan for the future? She and those like her should have thought about the prospect of medical expenses at some point while they were earning and spending.
Report Post »Scrubmaster
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 1:47pmYou Glenn Beck people are really some hate filled folk. Shame on you.
338lapua
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 2:10pm@scrubmaster, Your judgement cuts us all deeply. Except, I am not sure where you see hate. We here live in a real world. We are happy she is getting publicity, happy she has friends who care. Lots of us are in similar situations, we just deal with it differently. If that constitutes hate in your mind…than so be it.
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 2:14pmScrubmaster, put your money where your mouth is… lets see your contribution check. Times are very hard right now. Everyone should be taught at an early age that you must put something away for the future. I learned that too late in life to be in a good position.
It is a shame that this woman is in need of medical care. I wish I could reach out and cure everybodys problems but that isn’t going to happen.
We are NOT haters, we believe in self reliance. Set up a bank fund, show me your contribution and I will add to it, otherwise, go back to the Huffing Post
Report Post »Deb C
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 2:42pmThere is something in our environment that causes the disintegration of cartilage in our joints.
Report Post »Tucsonan
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 9:50pmThis lady has some connections with some top dollar people. Why are they not stepping up to help her out? Aren’t they the ones that are always screaming about the corporate rich? Since they are not corporate, does that exclude them from being considered “rich” in that sense?
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 1:14amThere are a lot of us in the same situation and it is not because we didn’t managed our money well – some of us never made a lot of money to start with. Boy, you people get more hate filled everyday – and you claim to be Christian! http://maboulette.wordpress.com
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 5:59amThe more government regulates health care, the costlier it will be. It now takes in excess of 30% of the doctors cost to keep up with government filings and regs. Another 20% to pay for insurance. This is not to mention the government dis-incentives for doctors regarding saving money for patients. If Obamacare goes forward, the costs will skyrocket, health care will be rationed, taxes will skyrocket, attornies will get fat, and the country will go broke. The federal government is on its way to ruining the best health care system in the world. Not to worry, the best doctors and schools will go to a different country where only a priveleged few will be able to get real health care.
Report Post »JKN
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 7:55amAnother sad story concerning the reality of health care in this country…
Only 10 percent of our population is forced to deal directly with the health care giants. Kind of like David versus Goliath, these giants have us, a tiny minority of Americans, completely under their thumbs; and we have no choice but to pay their increasingly astronomical fees in order to be insured.
While 90 percent of Americans are covered or mostly covered by their jobs or the government, the rest of us 10 percent are on our own and totally bearing the brunt! We’ve worked all of our lives just to hand it over to our insurance company.
It’s amazing that our members of Congress have no problem providing free health care for up to 30 million illegal aliens while so many Americans suffer without…
Report Post »Republic Under God
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 1:41pm@Walkwithme. Walkwithme, you are valuable to these boards because you are a liberal with a viewpoint contrary to most here. But it does no good (if that is your objective) when you offer nothign substantive. The woman herself admits she should have managed her money better. I really don’t see anything hateful on this board. Stop trying to make a wildfire out of a flashlight. It really just discredits you and makes your voice that much less relevant. Much like the HE IS A RACIST CHARGE. The day there is racism, we are going to be too jaded to take it seriously. Racism is a serious charge, not an I WIN button for liberals.
What I see is people walking away from this story with a lesson. And others making sure the lesson is learned through Ms. Cranerts’s unfortunate circumstances.
Also, I applaud the charity that her colleagues are extending to her. This will help her much better than Obamacare could have. If more people took up causes like this, we wouldn’t need the artificial charity that is the redistribution of wealth through taxes and entitlemen programs. We just all need to roll up our sleeves and help those around us. Homeless people are surprised by me when they ask for change. I never carry cash. I just smile, say that I don’t have cash, BUT let’s go inside the store and you pick whatever you want to eat, I will pick up the tab. 1) it really helps those who need it 2) it weeds out those that don’t. If they intend to use the money for drugs, they are not getting it from me, just fresh meals ;) I am not rich, but I know God has blessed me as I am someone with a job who can make ends meet. There are many in this country who cannot make that claim. Real charity is what we see with this woman. Real charity is truly addressing a need, not throwing $$$ at something and getting a tax break or paying taxes and letting Uncle Sam dole out the $$$.
Report Post »Ben Franklin set a great example for charity.
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Posted on December 9, 2010 at 8:23amNice to be riding your high horse. Everything you have can be taken away Blazingblonde. Do not forget that. Would Jesus call her a dummy or weak for not planning and managing her money? Funny how atheists are the ones who are more understanding and caring, isn’t it.
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