Blog Bio Covid Eventually Caught Up with Us

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We made it through the 2020 season of Covid. Of course, at the time we took precautions and mostly stayed home. For a few months, we even Zoomed our church service. 2020, became 2021 with fewer restrictions and 2022 with most restrictions put aside. We are thankful every Sunday to be able to attend our church service and Bible Study in person.

Other than church and doctor visits, we don’t get out all that much. Keith will pick up a few items at the grocery store, but mainly we have our groceries delivered. We spend time with our kids and grandkids in Lincoln and Papillion respectively.

A few months ago, we visited our daughter and family, along with her husband’s parents. Both sets of grandparents came to attend our five-year-old granddaughter’s first dance recital. Ellery was so pretty in her dress. And, she did so well.

We also attended the Scheidies’ weekend gathering where we laughed, talked, and caught up with each other’s lives. Saturday that weekend, the younger kids had uncles providing 3-wheeler and burro rides outside at the family farm.

Not everyone was able to make it to the gathering, but most came. It felt right to be together as a family. We’d been through so much loss since Covid—though not from the disease itself, but due to other causes. We did discover how much we needed one another and the importance of showing we care.

The week after the get-together, Keith and I started not feeling so good. Our “get-up-and-go simply got-up-and went.” It took a couple of days to figure out this was something different from what we’d experienced before. Yup! After managing to stay well through the pandemic and afterward, we finally succumbed. But we didn’t let that frighten us. We knew that fear only makes a situation worse, not better. We chose to move forward, determined to get through this.

The first few days, we slept. Then it was sleep and bathroom time. Our neighbor, a nurse, checked our vitals, asked questions, and made sure we were OK. Slowly we recovered, but it took time to recover our energy. The worst time is when you no longer feel sick but have little energy or motivation to actually do anything. I was glad to get beyond that stage.

I am thankful to make it through and thankful for our family and friends who prayed and offered assistance. It is good to know, that whatever we go through, we do not have to fear for, whatever happens, we are safe in God’s loving care

© 2022 Carolyn R Scheidies

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Blog Bio Mom Scheidies is gone but we still enjoy getting together as a family

Daughter Cassie & hubby Kurt with Jiggs & Bert

Since my in-laws, my husband’s parents Jiggs & Bert passed on, family gatherings haven’t been the same. For years, we followed his Mom’s pattern of a Scheidies weekend gathering the weekend after Thanksgiving in the fall and a gathering the last weekend in April.

In the fall, we celebrated Thanksgiving with a Saturday night potluck at the Scheidies farm and brunch the next morning in Minden with Keith’s folks. We also celebrated Christmas—with gifts for the children, birthdays, and any special event around that time period. In the spring we celebrated Easter, birthdays, and graduations.

Covid forced us to get together via Zoom for a couple of gatherings. While I was thankful for the technology and I was glad to visit with family, Zoom isn’t the same as face-to-face conversations, smiles, and those all-important hugs.

We have gotten together, but too often in the last couple of years, it has been for a memorial service or special acknowledgments, etc. Finally, we held a Scheidies gathering, this time in June 2022, that mirrored the ones Mom Scheidies initiated.

On Saturday night we met at the Scheidies’ farm now owned by Keith’s younger brother and sister-in-law Randy and Nancy who are raising their two grandkids.

Uncles went outside to keep an eye on the little ones. They also gave the kids rides on the 3-wheeler and even on a burro (Someone took a picture of our 5-year-old granddaughter, Ellery, on a burro. She has the biggest smile.)

The kids also got to swim in the above-ground pool on the side porch. Inside, we talked, laughed, remembered, and hugged. We also took time to see who wanted what from two tubs of items from the folks that had not been divided up.

Of course, we had potluck with lots of good food. Only a few stayed for the traditional late-night card game at the farm. The rest of us returned to our homes or hotel rooms for the night.

When the folks lived, we met at their home in Minden where we made eggs and bacon and supplied other breakfast/brunch items. We ate, and hung out until it was time to disperse to our homes—West to Colorado, East to Lincoln, Omaha, and Florida, for Randy and Nancy a short drive North of Minden to their farm and, for us 20 minutes to Kearney. The folk’s home in Minden has been sold. This year we rented the Mitzi Center at Yanney Park in Kearney for our brunch. The park offers so much for the family—including climbing the tower.

We ate, laughed, remembered, and took pictures. We’d gotten together as Mom always wanted for her family. This time without being brought together by death and tragedy. Now the big debate—when should we hold our next get-together? Looks like we’re returning to the last weekend in April. I can’t wait.

© 2022 Carolyn R Scheidies

Published in the Kearney Hub as “Mom gone: we still get together” 7/28/2022

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Blog Politics Covid, vaccines, exceptions, and common sense

There are some who claim that those who have hesitations about taking the Covid shot—it isn’t a vaccine— are uninformed, uneducated or simply stupid. That attitude shows the incredible bias of those who make such claims,

A Pfizer VP quit his job when he didn’t like what he saw his company was doing with the Covid shot. This was a highly intelligent and educated man with a good job with excellent benefits. Yet, he left that job and its perks because he felt he had to speak out. This is only the tip of those truly behind those suggesting caution, suggesting more exceptions, and rightly pointing out that one size does not fit all.

You and I know that a garment manufacturer claiming, “One size fits all,” shouldn’t be taken seriously. A ten-year-boy and my six-foot-five husband are not going to fit into the same clothing. It is the same with medication. If you listen to ads, you hear a host of cautions about not taking it if you are allergic or pregnant, etc. etc. etc. Don’t give to children under six, or under 18 or….

Yet the manufacturers of the Covid shots tell us that they are safe and effective for anyone of any age, under any and all health circumstances. This is improbable at best. A falsehood at worst to promote their product.

Consider this. The manufacturers of the Covid shots are the same manufacturers who have paid out millions and millions over the years to individuals and groups when they lost lawsuits because they created, promoted, and sold products that caused health issues—often cancer.

Yet, we’re supposed to believe that this time they have only our best interests at heart. Really? Are you that trusting? As for “safe and effective,” were we not told when enough individuals are “vaccinated,” our lives would return to normal? Didn’t happen!

Instead, we hear of more and more cases of fully “vaccinated” persons getting Covid. Now we’re told that may be true, but the case will not be as serious. So which is true—the shot works or it doesn’t? Documentation from the pharmaceutical companies reveals the shots neither keep one from getting sick nor keep one from spreading the disease to others.

Yet, those all-in for Covid shot seek to blame the unvaccinated for outbreaks without considering natural immunity and recovery with medications that are cheaper, less harmful, and more effective than an expensive shot.

Oh, but you don’t pay for your shot. The shot is not free. It is paid for by government agencies (that means you) or insurance. Covid cases and shots net manufacturers and medical facilities ready cash.

If you have the flu, but you die from a heart attack, your death certificate reads you died from the heart attack. But with Covid, if you have Covid but die from a heart attack, in many facilities your death certificate will read, “Died of Covid.”

This nets the medical facility government money and hugely inflates the cases of death to Covid itself. It is smoke and mirrors to engender fear in the populous who will be more likely to give up freedom for restrictions and unconstitutional mandates.

The media will not report the growing number of deaths—not to Covid which is 99% (yes 99%) survivable, but from the Covid shots. Others suffer irrefutable harm to their health. What about the young healthy teen who is now confined to a wheelchair? Or the single mother, in healthcare, who felt she had to get the Covid shot to keep her job and support her kids. She suffered neurological damage and can now scarcely take care of herself.

My daughter knew someone with a peanut allergy who had such a severe peanut reaction after a shot that she ended up in the ER. Health issues are happening.

What is being cataloged but underreported are seizures, neurological problems, loss of feeling in extremities, heart problems, especially in healthy young men. Those who hear and read these disquieting stats, of course, have hesitations and rightly so.

Yet Bidden and his cohorts demand everyone get this shot regardless of health indicators, allergies, age or religious concerns. (Example: every one of the Covid shots, while not including pre-born baby cells in the shot itself, nevertheless used aborted fetus material for testing. These shots cut to the very heart of the pro-life message—life begins at conception.)

Large and small companies are following along, including medical facilities, forcing one and all to get this shot or lose their seniority, benefits or even their jobs. This is for a shot, that by law, since it is still experimental, cannot be forced on anyone.

But these would-be dictators, believe they are above the law—for your good, of course. Those who support the mandates are doctors, medical and government personal with lots of letters behind their names. Education means some training in some field. It doesn’t necessarily indicate intelligence and certainly doesn’t indicate honesty or integrity or lack thereof.

How many really believe what they’ve been fed or simply believe the disinformation regularly pandered to the populace? On the other hand, not having a degree doesn’t make one unintelligent or stupid. Doctors who are coming forward with their concerns are not stupid either. Many have as many letters behind their names and as much experience as the medical professionals promoting Covid shots.

One of these doctors even helped develop the Covid protocol. Many were not against the shots at the beginning—until they witnessed the reality of what was happening to their own patients.

Stepping out was not easy and not something taken lightly. Unlike many professionals (but certainly not all) promoting Covid shots, the doctors advising caution aren’t making money from stepping forward. In fact, they are risking their reputations, careers and livelihoods to do so. (Of course, the media, some medical persons and others have done everything possible to smear those who’ve had the courage to speak out.)

Of course, they get banned from social media, but that’s happening to conservatives and Christians from our Senators to a mom who had concerns about things being taught in school. Many of my friends and I have gotten “Watch out” warnings.

Being banned from social media doesn’t mean there is a problem with the information. It does signify a problem with the liberal slant of the platform.

There are real reasons for not taking the shots and these should be honored. Since it is getting more and more difficult to hide those either suffering permanent disabilities or even dying, maybe it is time to take another look at mandates and toss them where they belong—in the trash.

Let’s voice our opinion that all sides of this issue be allowed in the media. Let’s allow the publication of exceptions that protect those with religious, health, pregnancy, age, or other exceptions that are automatic for any other medication.

Let’s stop calling names and casting stones—from either side. Stop making ridiculous claims about those with hesitations. Most are not anti-vaxxers. Most are intelligent, many educated, most with basic common sense all of whom have the right to question the current politically correct thought. Time is already starting to prove many of their cautions were right on.
© 2021 Carolyn R Scheidies
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