User:Margaretmann

I have had a passion for history of all the world and had gone back to college to finish my teaching degree so that I could teach history but because the healthcare system in the united states is so profit driven I never was seen by competant doctors before I learned that my illness has progressed to the point I will probably be dead in a few years. I always have loved to travel and if I had unlimited funds I wouldn't have a permanent home accept if I was teaching in some poor area. I was disabled 12 years ago by Dr. Nottingham who made my 4 hour back surgery into 8 and I woke up with no feeling in my left leg and when it came back the feeling was massive burning pain and just as this was controlled because I do not respond to medication well and every doctor knew he had done something in surgery but wouldn't try to help I became totally disabled and had to live only on social security disability. Because I was a woman and didn't work part of the time I was married (my husband deserted me after I was in a bad car accident) and didn't earn much I now live below the poverty line just like over 50% of Americans because wages haven't risen in the U.S. in 30 years.

If anyone wants a traveling companion (pain undercontrol now and if I can get surgery for a tracheo tube to be implanted to allow me to sleep I would gladly be a very nice and easy going companion because I am an aquarius and like everything,don't complain because I just "go with the flow" and can talk about most subjects because of my very liberal and various college education that was liberal arts,business degree and computer systems. I also believe in all religions because it is all the same. I'm a Budhist after I researched religious beliefs and all have good and bad. It is the good that all humans must find the common ground. We are the only species that kills our own kind and if we do not stop destroying the planet and all the elements that make up this unique world we will not live longer than the dinosaurs! This was why I did not want to have children even though I like children very much I did not want to worry about their future because it will burn up.

Before I became so ill and sooooooooo sleepy and couldn't function I wanted to teach in a village in Africa or India or Pakistan or Afghanistan or anywhere that is very rural and where there isn't formal big school houses because all these children deserve and education. You never know what accomplishments these children could do or what they would discover as scientists or writers or painters or musicians or doctors or honest government leaders for their people to improve their countries. A young mind is a waste if it isn't educated to help other people. This is the reason humans progressed and not any other animal on the planet. But we have got to stop killing our own species and start sharing the wealth that has been accumulated instead of only a few having so much and so many having so little they can barely feed themselves. This is morally wrong!

With the internet you can teach children out in the "bush" is you could get laptops and electricity and I so wanted to teach the poor children all over the world but I will not get the chance.

I fell in love with learning and reading when I was 11 years old in 1963 and the only thing that can keep me awake because I have severe obstructive sleep apnea and can only sleep 90 minutes at a time and no more is learning all the things on the internet.

Thank you for creating wiki so that people can learn about all kinds of histories about all sorts of things and just to "learn" about other cultures and religions and places and art and music and architecture and everything.

I learned from the internet more than the doctors I was going to about my illness and how it had to be treated and finally found a doctor just three months ago the operation that I need but it may or may not prevent or reverse the damage that has been done for the decades and decades of not getting sleep and oxygen.

The one pet peeve I have is that americans are so ignorant about what is going on in the rest of the world and the cultures of other people and what their lives are like because they are sooooo wrapped up in only their little world and America has become a country that tries to dominate and rule the world and I am really tired of this kind of attitude. No wonder the rest of the world doesn't think well of our government. I hate the foreign policy our government has been doing since I was born. contact kerrypw@gmail.com