All my projects are effected by something messed up:
The radio-automation, and my break into podcasting, even my activity here on steemit, took a hold for the last 18 days. I want to tell you why.
My sister will be 23 this year, but she operates at the cognitive level of a six or seven year old. We cannot get a solid fix on it, because of the cocktail of anti-epileptic medication she is on. She LGS, which only one in 100 epileptic patients have, and she has defeated the odds so far, since the doctors said she would not make 10. To get here the journey was long and hard, from trying the ketogenic diet, all through a brain operation where the doctors reduced the connections across the hemispheres of the brain which reduced the horrible seizures she used to get. To recently where they inserted a vagus nerve stimulator to reduce the effects of her seizures even more. The treatment now includes THC oil and a Microdose of Psilocybe cubensis as an antidepressant .
The major problem is that when she is not stimulated properly she deteriorates, there was a time where she was wheelchair bound and drooling all over herself, and this happened in a few months after her being in the wrong school, and by adapting the attention she got we had her at the point where in a month or two she would have learned how to read and write. This is what happens with LGS, and what my sister proves to you is the resilience of the human spirit, we nearly lost her, yet who she is came back. A long arduous battle has been fought, and countless hours have been spent sobbing for her part. We were in winning this battle, or so we thought.
We found her a good place to live, because we realised that the social needs were not being met at the school she was attending. In that time she became much more independent and self-contained. There was growth that we could not believe at that point, an increase in courage as well. There is also one thing you can count on with these people, and that is an unfiltered honesty. I do not know how this came about, but I am foreshadowing it, because there is something that needs a build up to it.
I am going to brush over the details, mostly because I will not be able to finish writing this. All the pieces came together, to uncover a battle that had been raging for nearly 8 years, unbeknown to anybody. She kept a dark secret from both me and my mother, and she had done so by threat of her and my mother's life. My Step father started molesting and raping her when she was 12, and it only came to light when she was 20. For the last 18 months we have been awaiting on the state to press charges, and sentence him for the crimes he has committed, and last week wednesday we were given word that they are not going to prosecute.
South Africa is horrible place, and our legal team suspects that we are on the receiving end of that horror. The court the case will be heard in has some darkness floating around it. We suspect that some bribery and corruption has influenced the sentiment of the state, among other things what is shocking is that in September last year they stated on record that we have a strong case.
My life has been shaken up, but these problems are of very little consequence, due to the fact that we may have to raise the equivalent of $16 614,00 in the next three months which is about 8474.58 Steem Dollars. That is if one of my contacts does not get the news to the Attorney General
If you want to do something, allow yourself to get pissed off. Take it to next level shit; it is easy actually. Go read the about how paedophiles get away with this, and how many of the cases against them fold due to the fact that six or seven years old children do not have the capacity to testify in court and the trauma often completely incapacitates them.
After that you can think about whether or not you want to donate, but even if you do not donate please keep this issue in mind. Do not abide people with weird sexlives. stay away from pornography , and the people that are obsessed with it. There will come a time where that drug escalated to the point where the person cannot help himself/herself to what they crave.
Also do not believe the liberals that the moral values surrounding sex needs to fade away, there is place for liberal and their unguarded sex lives, but this cannot be for the whole of our society, because then these horrible things become the norm