Lisa Mowdy is my adopted sister, living with Profound Cerebral Palsy, Epilepsy, Lordosis, and other complex medical issues. Our parents adopted Lisa as a foster baby and gave her excellent care, despite her prognosis of 10-12 years. They did such a fantastic job, that she outlived them both. She will be 51 years old in May 2025. Lisa lives with a trach and is on life-support (ventilator, oxygen, and feeding tube) to sustain her. She requires round-the-clock care, which is provided by her private insurance (Daddy's retirement health insurance plan) and Medicaid, that carries the financial responsibility of nursing and aide care in our home. I rely on every hour awarded to her to be able to continue her care at home (as I promised our parents) and to allow me some freedom of motion to maintain my full-time job, my part-time work, and oversee my non-profit organization.
May 9, 2025 Update
We have a State Fair Hearing set for May 14th to appeal for the lost hours cut from her Medicaid benefits that pay for an aide in our home. We lost almost half of the weekly hours she has been awarded annually for the past 12 years on a "technicality" in the definition of how those hours are supposed to be used. The state awarded those hours without my request, so for 12 years, they never questioned if she qualified. Only now are they "looking" for any language that will warrant these damaging cuts that the Federal Government is making on Medicaid recipients. Please pray we can get those hours reinstated in this appeal. I've already resigned myself to accepting it's a "Planned Denial," a term the insurance industry is using when they've already made up their minds that they are not going to approve something. But, I am also hopeful that if we can get the current administration swept out of office in the next four years, sanity will return to the offices that hold power over the millions of American citizens who are weak and vulnerable, like Lisa.
If you have any connections that can get me in front of the US Congress to speak on the atrocities happening to the most fragile voters, please help me get there. Thank you.
March 5, 2025 Update
On behalf of Lisa, THANK YOU for being a voice for her by contacting
your Congressional representatives on behalf of disabled Americans.
Please keep on holding our U.S. Senators and Representatives
- along with our representatives at each state level -
accountable for securing the safety and wellbeing of our disabled loved ones.
Progress has been made in our recent crisis. Corrections are now underway
within Lisa's Medicaid program. I was given reassurances from the Ombudsman's Office
that Lisa's nursing and aide care "should" continue for another year.
Time will tell if this actually falls into place.
We still need to look beyond the next year for Lisa
and other vulnerable Americans so please send letters to US Congress.
A new sample letter is provided in links below.
It's in MS Word format, so you can customize it,
and it is available as a pdf so you can just sign and send!
Please check on anyone you know who may need you to be their voice,
like you have for my sister. Thank you again for your compassion
and determination to help Lisa.
Please keep helping others by contacting Congress!
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February 23, 2025
Lisa and millions of other disabled Americans need your help!
Please write to your US Congress members and let them know that their lives matter!
A blanket letter is ready to download. See the link below!
Lisa is a 50 year old lady born with severe Cerebral Palsy.
She currently lives with her sister, Catherine in Conroe, Texas.
Each year, disability benefits received through Medicare and Medicaid are reduced.
And, as of February 21, 2025, they've learned she's losing almost half
of the funding that provides her aide care through Medicaid.
This is causing a crisis situation to manage the much-needed care for Lisa.
Your help in flooding US Congress with her story will be deeply appreciated.
Please download one of the attached letters to US Congress.
They are identical except one is in MS Word format, so you can customize it to your own language,
while the other is in pdf format, so you can SIGN YOUR NAME at the bottom and send it out.
These and other letters like these will help vulnerable Americans, including our Veterans,
secure the support they need to survive safely in their own homes!
And, on behalf of Lisa, thank you for caring about her enough to join us in this!
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