Well, isn’t THIS interesting. Since fuel costs are going up, more and more people in Utah are depending on UTA...the Utah Transit Authority. They take busses, trains, etc. NOW UTA is planning on raising their prices under the auspices that they are paying more for fuel. Up to a dollar per trip on the Trax train that my daughter takes to school each day.
UTA is well known for raising prices on a whim and treating wheelchair people like crap (case in point the EMPTY bus that somehow didn’t have room for me). We have one of the cheapest economies in the states yet UTA costs more to take here than other mass transit companies in the other states.
This summer, I am going to make my daughter get her motorcycle permit along with her driving permit. I had once offered to get her a scooter to go back and forth to school with and it looks like that might be the cheaper option for next year.
Of course the little git says that if she gets stronger and when she gets older she wants to get a Harley. *rolls eyes*
I taught her well. *wipes a tear from her eye* ROTF
Hope she doesn’t think I am going to go get her one…THAT one is on her lol.
I watched a PBS show tonight called “A Walk To Beautiful”. OMG…If you can get it or see it, PLEASE DO. It’s about women in Ethiopia who have complications from childbirth. Most notably, fistulas. Fistulas are tears between the bladder and uterus and/or rectum and uterus. The feces and/or urine leak out through the vagina and make their lives a living hell.
Not only do they have urine and what all running down their legs continuously, but their husbands and families and villages shun them. Many aren’t able to support themselves or their children or even live in the village proper.
I had heard of this a long time ago on another program and then Oprah but THIS show last night was amazing.
It followed some women through their journey to getting healed. One was so heartbreaking because she couldn’t be cured fully, her bladder had been damaged and she couldn’t hold her urine.
They actually had to give her a plug with a stopper in it to insert and even that little gadget, changed her life so much.
We take for granted our doctors, nurses and hospitals during childbirth. We have C-sections, epidurals, equipment to monitor us, people who fight to be in the birthing room with us.
One of the women in the movie had been in labor for TEN DAYS. She ended up with both fistulas and at the end of the movie, she was cured.
You really NEED to see this movie. If it gets too gross for you, just look away but don’t stop listening. Because this is a woman’s problem, there isn’t a lot of money for the operations, etc. An operation at one place costs $450. The women themselves don’t pay anything…the surgeries are free for the patients. When they are ready to go home, they are given new clothes to signify their new start in life.
One of the hospitals/facilities in Ethiopia has a website: www.fistulafoundation.org I don’t have a lot of money but I am going to send what I can each month. Maybe only the cost of the soda I don’t need to drink, but something each month.
Please visit and at least become familiar with the problem. It is actually a worldwide problem and if we women in the ‘richest’ nations can’t help even a bit, what’s the sense of having our blogs and connecting to all these women online?
Aren’t the women in these nations worth something too?
Then you have the religious right who keep telling people it's wrong to take birth control. 
