MichelleCaudle

MichelleCaudle https://www.dailykos.com/news/MichelleCaudle News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Sun, 26 Jan 2020 10:53:19 +0000 Sun, 26 Jan 2020 10:53:19 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) RIP Michelle Caudle https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/9/5/1013717/-RIP-Michelle-Caudle <a href="http://s169.photobucket.com/albums/u237/kimowahn/?action=view&current=IMG_0969.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u237/kimowahn/IMG_0969.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a> Michelle Caudle's quilt, "Flowers for Michelle" One of our early community quilts was done for Michelle Caudle.  Michelle was not a member of the Daily Kos community but her story touched the hearts of many Daily Kos readers.  You may remember it -- her husband joined the Army in order to keep Michelle in cancer treatment even though that meant he would be separated from her for long periods.  It was a <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/64677772.html">story that put a tragic and very real human face on the dysfunction of our health care "system"</a>, poignantly told by journalist Mark Johnson.  We answered with a quilt filled with messages of love and support, something <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/11/25/808180/-Michelle-Caudles-Quilt-From-Daily-Kos-Community">that touched Michelle Caudle very deeply</a>, even though we were strangers to her. It is with deep sadness that I relay the news that Michelle Caudle lost her battle with ovarian cancer on Friday.  Mark Johnson <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/obituaries/129173268.html">wrote a beautiful obituary</a>.  Here is a small piece of it, focusing on the positive effect Michelle's story had on awareness of warning signs of ovarian cancer: rss@dailykos.com (Sara R) Community CommunityQuilts Grief Health Care HealthCare Love Catchers LoveCatchers MichelleCaudle Ovariancancer Recommended _1013717 Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:14:26 +0000 Kossacks Did a Good Thing - Journal Sentinel Update on Michelle Caudle https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/12/27/819632/-Kossacks-Did-a-Good-Thing-Journal-Sentinel-Update-on-Michelle-Caudle The Daily Kos community was deeply affected by the story of <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/64677772.html">Michelle Caudle</a> when it broke.  You may recall that Mrs. Caudle’s husband joined the Army to keep his wife’s cancer treatments going.  His decision was a torment because Army service took Bill Caudle from his wife’s side when she was so sick – but not to serve with the Army would have left her without health care.  The bitter twist of necessary absence made the Caudle’s story seem like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gift_of_the_Magi">it had been written by O. Henry</a>. You will also recall that we, as a community, did something in response..  A number of Kossacks commissioned a message quilt for Michelle Caudle, as well, <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/11/25/808180/-Michelle-Caudles-Quilt-From-Daily-Kos-Community">and we know it was received with grateful tears on a particularly hard day</a>. rss@dailykos.com (Sara R) Cancer communitymessagequilts Health Care HealthCare Love Catchers LoveCatchers MichelleCaudle _819632 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:42:42 +0000 Michelle Caudle’s Quilt From Daily Kos Community https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/11/25/808180/-Michelle-Caudle-8217-s-Quilt-From-Daily-Kos-Community <a target="_blank" href="http://s169.photobucket.com/albums/u237/kimowahn/?action=view&current=IMG_0969.jpg"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u237/kimowahn/IMG_0969.jpg" border /></a> As part of an ongoing series of message-bearing community quilts, a quilt was commissioned for <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/64677772.html">Michelle Caudle</a> – the woman whose husband joined the Army in order to keep her cancer treatments going. I sent the quilt (titled, “Flowers for Michelle”) to the reporter who broke her story, Mark Johnson.  As many of you contributed messages for the quilt and to its cost, I thought you would want to know that I just received an email from Mr. Johnson.   And here it is: rss@dailykos.com (Sara R) Cancer CommunityQuilts HealthCareReform MichelleCaudle Recommended _808180 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:42:53 +0000 Community Quilt Update Diary https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/11/2/799869/-Community-Quilt-Update-Diary This community has kindly commissioned some quilts.  This is an update diary to let you all know where each of them stands. The quilt for <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/10/20/795281/-Community-Quilt-for-Michelle-CaudleAction-Diary">Michelle Caudle</a> is done.  I’ve been in contact with the reporter who broke the story about her and will send the quilt to him to deliver. Here is the quilt, “Flowers for Michelle”: <a target="_blank" href="http://s169.photobucket.com/albums/u237/kimowahn/?action=view&current=IMG_0969.jpg"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u237/kimowahn/IMG_0969.jpg" border /></a> rss@dailykos.com (Sara R) BFSkinner CommunityQuilts FrederickClarkson Health Care HealthCare KitsapRiver MichelleCaudle _799869 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:07:40 +0000 Community Quilt for Michelle Caudle – Action Diary https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/10/20/795281/-Community-Quilt-for-Michelle-Caudle-8211-Action-Diary UPDATE: Call for messages is closed on this quilt.  Thank you all! <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/user/Sara%20R">Last night I posted a diary about the quilts the Kossack community has commissioned</a> for valued members.  Three quilt projects were proposed – the first of which I am writing about tonight. We will make a quilt bearing messages of support with wishes for healing for <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/64677772.html">Michelle Caudle who is fighting ovarian cancer</a> (I'll sew it -- you provide the messages).  In order to maintain coverage for the care and treatment she needs, her husband, who was recently laid off, joined the Army for a four-year period of service.  It’s an awful predicament for her because, in addition to facing a third round of chemo and caring for their kids, by necessity her husband will be hundreds of miles away.   rss@dailykos.com (Sara R) Cancer Health Care HealthCare Kossackcommunityquilts MichelleCaudle _795281 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:00:27 +0000 Man joins Army to pay for wife's cancer treatment https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/10/19/794933/-Man-joins-Army-to-pay-for-wife-s-cancer-treatment Maybe John Boehner can ask his opinion on government-run health insurance? <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/64677772.html">From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:</a> <blockquote> In March, he was laid off from his job as a raw materials coordinator for a plastics company called PolyOne, where he'd worked for 20 years. His severance package had provided several months' salary, but by August the paychecks were winding down. Soon the cost of his family health coverage was going to triple, then a few months after that, nearly triple again. They needed coverage so Mom could fight her cancer. Dad's solution: a four-year hitch in the Army. </blockquote> More excerpts below.  This seems like a perfect example of what is wrong with our health care system.  In order to save his wife, he had to enlist. rss@dailykos.com (topdog08) BillCaudle Health Insurance HealthCareReform HealthInsurance JohnBoehner MichelleCaudle _794933 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:39:26 +0000