Act Right, Do Right: Part 4 with Michaela

Michaela: [00:00:00] Hey, you guys, it’s Michaela with Kentucky SPIN and I just wanted to take a couple minutes to talk to you about a little segment we’re calling act right, do right. I think there’s so many things going on in the world right now that are so scary to many of us. And we’ve been instructed by the president, by the governor to stay at home as much as possible.

 We’re not getting to do things that we’re used to doing. Like go to our church services, and go to the grocery with our families. And we’re missing so much of that, our social interaction. And I just wanted to take a moment to tell you guys how important it is to do the right thing. I work with families all over the state that have children and family members with disabilities.

 And, for those of you that don’t know or haven’t experienced, that it comes with daily challenges that most of the world doesn’t have to think about. But when I’m telling you to stay at [00:01:00] home, I would like for you to consider our families with disabilities. So many of them, if they were to get sick, even though they’re not in that elderly range, are immuno compromised, and it could have devastating consequences.

 And then just being a mother myself. It’s terrifying to think about the fact that my son may have to go to the hospital. And thank goodness he’s not immuno compromised. But having to go to the hospital and not being able to be with him if the healthcare setting happened to be, overpopulated or overworked.

 And as a mother, any mother, that’s terrifying. But when you’re a mother of a child with disabilities, it adds in countless other things that other people really don’t know or tend to take for granted. I know there are single parent households, if they were to get sick, and a lot of those are [00:02:00] grandparents are in that, at risk population, who’s going to care for that child because you can’t just leave them with anybody.

 You have to have someone that’s qualified and knows your child to take care of them. It presents so many things to our special needs families that people just don’t think about. And so I just wanted to encourage you all, if you don’t know anybody, that this is going to affect, it affects me, it affects the families I work with and the families I love and care so much about.

 So please do right and act, ride and stay home.