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A patient is prepped for a mini-facelift at the Skin & Vein
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Dated: September 23, 2012
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W
hat would happen if you had to
suddenly take over the management of your partner’s, children’s or parent’s money or finances?
One of my clients recently felt ill, so
he went to the emergency room. While
examining him, doctors found what they
thought to be cancer. He was immediately admitted, a biopsy was completed
and he was scheduled
for surgery a few days
later. If everything
went well, he would be
discharged in 10 days.
That night I received a call from his
wife, who was understandably distraught
Paula
and in a panic. Her
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husband handled the
management of their
money. He paid the
bills. She had no clue what needed to be
paid or how it was paid.
Fortunately for us, he was able to
communicate with me. He told me
where his passwords and account numbers were kept, which bills were paid
automatically and which needed to be
paid by check. Working with his wife,
we made sure all of the bills were taken
care of. It was one less thing she needed
to worry about.
What if he was incapacitated and
unable to communicate?
It got me thinking. Do I know all my
husband’s passwords? Does he know
mine? I don’t have a clue about my adult
children’s finances. What about my
mom?
Although all my loved ones have a
durable power of attorney in place,
which gives someone the authority to
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know where to begin looking for the
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» Have they named a durable power
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there is no POA, you’ll have to petition
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» Where do they keep their financial
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The majority of my statements are delivered electronically. After I review
them, I delete them. Most financial institutions archive statements, so I will
always have access to my old statements. Since I delete my statements, it
would be pretty difficult for my POA to
find them. A lot of my clients have a
binder with all their statements. They
keep it in a locked safe or filing cabinet.
Where is the key kept?
» Where are their accounts? What
are the account numbers? What are
their passwords? Bank accounts, credit
cards, mortgage company, investment
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» What are their monthly expenses?
When do they need to be paid? How are
they paid – automatically or by check?
» Where does their income come
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» Do they have an accountant or
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I know if I asked my children for this
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I remember what is like to be in my
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It definitely goes both ways. If they
were to ask me, I am not sure I would
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Your POA doesn’t need to know your
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FASHION HITS THE ROAD
Plymouth woman launches mobile boutique
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By Robin D’Angelo, Contributing Writer
“I get to shop for a living, which is
great – you can’t beat it,” she said. “I
thought opening a store would make me
shop less, but that hasn’t made a difference. I’m still a crazy person.
“It’s been awesome. On any given
day, I can go on Facebook and see photos of people wearing Madison Boutique items and that really makes me
feel like I’m on the right track. I’ve put
my time in with a lot of jobs I didn’t feel
this way about. Some days I’d still rather lay in bed and watch Ellen and do
nothing, but that’s how I know that what
I do is actually work.”
hen Nikki Mattison’s
friends needed something
stylish to wear for an important occasion, they
didn’t head to the mall.
Instead, they came to her closet.
“I’ve always been a shopper and I’ve
always been that person that people
called to say, ‘You have to come shopping with me!’ if they were planning a
girls night out or looking for something
to wear to a wedding,” the Plymouth
resident said.
A graduate of Canton High School
and Eastern Michigan University, Mattison originally planned on teaching
high school English, but later transitioned to marketing and event planning.
Unsatisfied with that career path, she
decided to make the leap into what
those who knew her best had been telling her for years was her true calling –
fashion.
“I’d always wanted to open a boutique of my own, so I did a bunch of
research and saved money,” she said.
Mattison opened her online shop,
Madison Boutique, in 2012, intent on
creating a shopping experience that
would offer quality, trendy designs for
women – clothing unique enough to be
noticed, but versatile enough to wear
every day.
“You’re not going to get your club
wear from me, but you can get a really
great sweater, a statement necklace,
fleece leggings ... items you could wear
on a date or to class or to work, stuff
that can do double duty,” she said.
“Who can afford to have two closets?”
Feeling the love
Taking it to the street
This past July, Mattison decided to
try something different: Take her everexpanding closet on the road with the
first mobile fashion truck in Michigan.
The bright mulberry-toned vehicle not
only contains every item in Mattison’s
inventory, but has been outfitted with a
changing room, benches, lighting, a
sound system and air conditioning for a
true boutique experience.
Mattison takes the truck to community events such as the Plymouth Fall
Fest and also caters to private parties.
“You get 10 of your girlfriends together, drink some wine and come shop
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Nikki Mattison of Plymouth in her mobile fashion truck, the first in Michigan.
and try things on,” she said. “I really
don’t even have to try to sell it – they’re
all encouraging each other to buy this
or that. It’s so much more impactful,
because peer pressure wins.
“One of the best parts about having
the truck is that I get to go to where the
crowds are. Instead of opening a store
and waiting for people to come to me, I
can go to a festival and they are ready
for me.”
Mattison left her previous corporate
job in March to devote herself to the
boutique full time and, indeed, it has
become a full-time job. She adds new
items to her inventory every day, travels to apparel shows for purchasing and
attends regular photo shoots in order to
keep the website updated with her latest buys.
Some of the Madison Boutique’s
most popular items are her drawstring
tunics in a variety of colors, as well as
print scarves, ponchos and hooded knit
sweaters and jackets. Chunky, bold
necklaces, bracelets and other accessories complete her ensembles.
“Anything Aztec is in right now and I
have a lot of red plaids, things in shades
of wine and olive. Also, people love
cream-colored anything,” she said. “I
try to specialize in cozy, cute stuff.”
Jennifer Albers-Smith of Wixom
wrote on the Madison Boutique Facebook page, “Love the clothes from Madison Boutique. I started buying items in
December and haven’t stopped. I get so
many compliments and am really
pleased with the fit and quality of the
items, all for a great price.”
Customer Harmony Faust wrote, “I
always feel great and get compliments
when I wear my Madison Boutique
buys. Nikki has impeccable taste so
even if something is a little out of my
normal comfort zone, I tend to scoop it
up now anyways and never regret it.”
As the Madison Boutique continues
to grow, Mattison acknowledges that
the complexities of owning a small
business still make her nervous. However, she credits her friends and the
popularity of social media for helping
to spread the word.
“My friends have been fantastic,”
she said. “I have several who are small
business owners and they really
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VETERANS DAY 2014
Female veterans share their stories of service
By Robin D’Angelo, Contributing Writer
“I knew it would teach me character.”
» Lauren Medina
“I needed a better way to support my kids. I saw the
opportunity for college.”
» Nicole Bundas
“There was something in me that wanted to serve.”
» Carol Ann Fausone
Three female veterans – three stories.
LAUREN MEDINA
Lauren Medina, 28, of Livonia decided to join the U.S. Air Force at age
19.
“My grandpa was in the Royal
Canadian Air Force and my cousin
was in the Navy. I really looked up to
both of them and I knew it was something important to do,” she said.
After six weeks of basic training in
San Antonio, she was enrolled in the
Air Force’s medical technician program in Florida.
“It was very challenging in many
ways, but my biggest challenge was
trying to figure out how to live away
from my family,” she said. “At the
beginning, it was physically and mentally demanding, but I think it made
me a stronger woman.
“I know I’m capable of doing
things I never thought I would be. I
never thought I’d be crawling in the
mud. I don’t think anybody thought I
could do what I did. I chose to be
there, so I knew I had to be strong and
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complete it.”
Medina said when she was struggling with the distance and loneliness,
she often thought about her grandpfather, “because he was so strong,” as
well as her cousin and her fellow
soldiers on foreign soil.
“A lot of people I knew were getting deployed and many of them had
kids, but there I was in Napa Valley,”
she said. “That made me realize I had
nothing in the world to be down about.
You have to put it in perspective.”
At completion, Medina was transferred to the David Grant Hospital on
the Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield,
Calif., where she cared for wounded
men and women returning from overseas.
“We were the stop between Ramstein Air Base (Germany) and their
final base and meeting those men and
women was one of the greatest experiences I’ve ever had,” she said.
“Many still had major injuries and
they would stay in our unit for wound
care. They were just glad to be back
on American soil and they wanted to
talk about home. They like talking
about going home, rather than where
they were coming from. Most soldiers
want to talk about anything but that,
really.”
She finished her service in 2010 and
then was faced with the challenges of
transitioning back to civilian life – the
biggest being finding employment.
“When you get out, sometimes what
you do doesn’t transfer over to the
civilian side, so I couldn’t perform the
same things I did in the military,” she
said. “My duties were similar to a
licensed vocational nurse, but on the
outside I was a basically a licensed
EMT.
“It can be very difficult to figure
things out when you get back and people who were in for longer than I was
have even bigger issues. You have all
this military training, but then you get
out and you don’t have anything and,
I’ll tell you, these are the best people
you’ll ever work with. You can’t slack
off in the military – you can’t take a
day off, you can’t be late.”
Medina, now a student at Wayne
State University, will graduate this
winter with a major in apparel design.
She continues to stay in touch with
most of her former colleagues, many
of whom are still in the service.
“It’s cool that you develop such
close friendships with the people you
serve with,” she said. “I have never
regretted my choice to join.
“It really was one of the best experiences and best choices I ever made
in my life and I will always be proud
of it. I work harder and I know the
value of working and not giving up.”
NICOLE BUNDAS
Nicole Bundas of Redford enlisted in the Army National Guard in
2007 as a way to carve out a better
future for herself and her two
young sons.
“I was going through a divorce at
the time and it hit me that I needed a
better way to support my kids,” she
said.
“I was working as a preschool
teacher and I saw the money for
college, plus there was an enlistment
bonus. I saw it as an opportunity.”
She attended nine weeks of basic
training in South Carolina and from
there went to Fort Meade, Md., for 12
weeks of advanced training in public
affairs, journalism and photography.
“It was hard and different and
exciting, all at the same time,” she
said.
“I was older than most of others
who I enlisted with, so that was a
little harder, as well as leaving my
two boys at home. But that only
made me work all the harder, because I had something to work for. I
knew I had to complete it and do a
good job.”
Bundas knew she would be required to attend training once a
month, but when the call came in
that she was to be deployed before
she had even left her training in
Maryland, she was stunned.
“That was very abnormal. Usually you
come home and wait for your unit to take
its turn,” she said. “It was October and
they told me I’d get to come home for a
couple of months – and then I was leaving
for Iraq. With two little boys at home,
that was definitely not what I wanted to
hear.
“I was sobbing hysterically on the
Nicole Bundas served in Iraq as an embed
specialist in charge of working with the
civilian media.
phone with my sergeant and he kept saying, ‘I understand.’ I always knew deployment was always on the table, but I never
expected it to happen so quickly.”
For two months, she spent as much
time as possible with her children, while at the same time
attending a flurry of extra
training in order to prepare
for Iraq.
“I wasn’t just sitting at
home doing nothing – I had
to go through all of the premobilization stuff,” she said.
“I spent weeks at Camp
Grayling in northern Michigan getting to know my new
unit.”
Once overseas, Bundas
became an embed specialist in
charge of working with the
civilian media.
“My job was to get all of
their information, get them
through security, get them incountry and hook them up with
a specialty unit that they could
stay (with) for multiple days,”
she said. “I then had to track
them to see what kind of news
articles they were putting out
and make sure that they actually
were putting them out.
“I arranged all of their travel
while they were there and made
sure they were following the
rules. We held weekly press conferences and I also did a little of
my own stuff as a journalist. I
have to say, it really gave me an
appreciation for what the civilian
media do. I signed up to serve, but
these people were willing to risk
their lives to tell our stories.”
Bundas said she was glad to be a part
of the good stories that were told – the
stories that gave the families of soldiers
a different perspective than the negative
aspects that are most often portrayed.
“People worry,” she said. “They see all
the negative things, but rarely to do they
get to see this or that amazing thing that
their son, daughter, husband or wife is
accomplishing over there.
“I wanted them to have that peace of
mind, to see that their family members
were doing great things and they were
making a difference.”
Bundas said she saw many instances
of heroism, but added, “There were other
times that were absolutely horrifying.
You’re in a foreign country in a time of
war.”
She recalled an element of disbelief at
times, thinking of the transition from her
former life to the life of a soldier.
“One year before, I was doing circle
time with toddlers and changing wet
Pull-Ups and now I’m carrying a weapon
and worrying about if I will make it to
tomorrow,” she said.
“Thankfully, I was in a safer area. I
had a cellphone, I could Skype with my
kids and I could call them. There were
moments when it got scary and I questioned whether I had made the right decision.”
The most difficult part of deployment,
by far, was the separation from her children – what Bundas describes as the
universal struggle of military moms.
“As a mother, you always want to be
the one to take care of them when they’re
sick or be there when the good things
happen, especially when they are so little,” she said.
“That was the toughest thing for me,
when they would call and say they didn’t
feel well or that this great thing happened that I missed.”
Returning home was not without its
struggles, either. Units that had been
together every moment for an entire
year suddenly find themselves separated
and scattered across the state, left to
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Black Friday, Cyber Monday
are part of holiday shopping culture
“There are so many good sales on Cyber
Monday, especially if you know what you
are looking to purchase,” said Bolton, the
mother of four grown children.
Bolton said she is usually shopping for
specific brands: J. Crew, Orvis and more.
She appreciates the opportunity to purchase
high-quality clothing items at fantastic
savings.
“The one thing to remember about online shopping, though, is that if you see it,
you need to buy it right then. Otherwise it
will be gone,” Bolton said, acknowledging
that she finds herself doing more of her
Christmas online each year.
Bolton is not alone.
Carol Margiotta, a Commerce Township
resident and employee at the Acorn Tree in
Milford, said that she does the majority of
her holiday shopping online.
“I don’t like to fight the crowds and I can
shop at leisure in my own home,” said Margiotta, who noted the majority of her shopping is for her grandchildren.
Free shipping and the convenience of
having purchases delivered right to her
By Jill Halpin
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t may be a relatively new event, but Cyber
Monday – when consumers turn to their
laptops, iPads and other mobile devices
looking for online sales – is here to stay.
Once just an electronic follow-up to Black
Friday – the day after Thanksgiving, when
many retailers actually start to make
profits or “go in the black” – Cyber Monday is now its own tradition, said Ed
Nakfoor, a Birmingham-based business
retail specialist.
“There are many Internet-only retailers
and a lot of ‘web-only’ specials,” offered by
traditional retailers that make Cyber Monday hard to ignore, Nakfoor said.
According to Mike Bernacchi, University
of Detroit-Mercy marketing professor, Cyber Monday sales are expected to increase
11-15 percent this year, versus roughly 5-8
percent for traditional retailers Black Friday.
Consumer holiday spending is expected
to grow by 5 percent overall this year, with a
record 56 percent of people planning to do
some online holiday shopping, according to
the National Retail Federation.
Tara Bolton is one shopper you won’t find
out battling the crowds in an effort to find the
best deal this Black Friday.
Instead, the Beverly Hills resident will be
celebrating the long Thanksgiving holiday
visiting with friends and family in northern
Michigan, leaving the jostling masses of bargain-hungry shoppers to their sport.
Bolton will join a growing legion of shoppers who will shop in the comfort and privacy
of their own home Monday, following the
Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
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opening times for Thanksgiving and Black Friday:
» Macy’s, Best Buy and
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» Meijer is open 24 hours
and will remain so for the
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» Somerset Mall will
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BOUTIQUE
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much of yourself out there, too.”
She also found a mentor – someone
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“help me learn the harder lessons from
them instead of learning it myself.”
“Part of owning a business is to just
do it. Make up your mind to do it and
work hard,” she said.
“I still have people saying, ‘Do you
really make money doing this?’ When
people see you doing something outside
of the box, they tend to dismiss it or
refer to it as a hobby. I was the first in
Michigan to have a truck and two more
have opened since I did, but that’s great
for me. It legitimizes what I’m doing.”
‘Forget the rules’
Lauren Devine, co-owner and stylist
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models used in Madison Boutique photo
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“I get most of my clothes from Nikki
now and I always get tons of compliments,” Devine said. “They are trendy
and accessible and they are wearable
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The fashion truck contains every item in the Madison Boutique’s inventory and is outfitted
with a changing room, benches, lighting, a sound system and air conditioning.
“Nikki really does try to have a diverse collection – she’s not just shopping for herself. She keeps the 20-year
old, 30-year-old, 40-year-old in mind.
There’s something for everyone on her
truck.”
Devine said the photo shoots started
at every six weeks, but inventory now
sells so quickly that the shoots are held
as often as every two weeks.
“It’s really exciting that Nikki has
the truck now and I can’t wait to see
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Mattison said she loves learning the
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in my head when I was growing up,
but some women have had things
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not? Don’t limit yourself. It’s supposed
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She also advises her customers to
“dress for the body you have.”
“People will say, ‘This would look
great on me if I lost 10 pounds,’ but I
say, don’t lose 10 pounds, just get a
different size. You can still wear it
and look good and feel good.”
Although she began the online
boutique with the hopes of one day
opening a retail location, Mattison
said she is “good” with the website
and her truck – noting that she would
consider adding more trucks as a next
step.
“The best compliment I can get –
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Stephanie Kuhn, a Plymouth Township mother of three, will also skip the
multitudes of shoppers Black Friday,
opting instead to shop quietly and comfortably Cyber Monday.
“It is a lot of work to haul kids in and
out of car seats and stores,” she said.
“It’s not fun for them and it’s not fun for
me.
“It’s so nice to be able to sit back and
compare prices. Plus, you can find some
different stuff – unique items – than
what you might see on the shelf at Target or Toys R Us.”
But despite the popularity of Cyber
Monday, Bernacchi says Black Friday is
here to stay.
Many shoppers will continue to flock
to the event, because, like the Thanksgiving holiday itself, it too has become a
tradition.
The “tradition” aspect of Black Friday is not to be taken lightly, Nakfoor
said.
“There are a lot of people who like
being in the frenzied masses,” he said
“For them, it’s all part of the holiday
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The colors of this holiday season
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Wear your wine for the holidays.
Well, you can drink it, too, but I’m
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season. Layer varying depths of
color to create a rich, sophisticated
look.
Lashes, lashes and more lashes.
You can’t have enough lashes this
time of year. This means layering up
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favorite lengthening and thickening
mascara. This also means applying
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Fresh cheeks are in this season,
cheeks that flush like you just came
in from a stroll in the crisp evening
breeze. For lighter skin, try applying
a rosy color to the apples of your
cheeks to make your face come
aglow. Darker complexions, try a
reddish bronze to brighten up the
cheeks.
Pops of color on the eyes is one
trend I keep seeing that requires
some chutzpah to pull off. And I
mean pop. And I mean color. But hey,
what better time than the holidays to
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Full brows – big, bold and gorgeous – are still the rage, which is
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return to civilian life without the benefit of that tightly-knit support system they
had come to rely on so
heavily in Iraq.
“They have shared everything that’s been going
on in your life for the past
365 days and been with you
every moment,” Bundas
said, choking up. “Then, all
of a sudden, they’re gone.
“You’re excited to be
home and be with your
loved ones, but the people in
your unit have also become
your family. I’m on the east
side, but my unit is stationed in the Battle Creek
area. We went from 24
hours a day to one weekend
a month.”
Bundas said because
suicide is increasingly prevalent among returning servicemen and women, members of her unit made an
effort to keep in close contact after coming home.
“You come back and
you’re going through things,
reintegrating with your
parents or your spouse,” she
said. “We made sure we
called and talked to each
other. It’s been five years
and we still do that. Most of
us, our contracts have expired, but we don’t want to
lose one of our brothers or
sisters.”
Although finding employment can also be a
struggle for veterans, Bundas was hired at the VA
Hospital in Ann Arbor several months after her return.
“I was very lucky in that
respect, but at the same
time it was a hard transition
from being told 24 hours a
day what to wear, what to do
and how to breathe to now
making all of these decisions ... not just for me, but
for two other little people
who were depending on
me,” she said.
“I still see the struggle
our veterans go through
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every day. The biggest
thing is that we keep supporting them after the
homecoming. I have
watched so many people
get that initial support, but
after a while it dies down.
We can’t forget. It’s bad
enough that we are losing
them when they deploy;
we don’t want to lose them
when they come home.”
Bundas said she found
support by joining a
female veterans group at
the Ann Arbor VA, which
provides guidance
through everything from
breast cancer to posttraumatic stress disorder.
“I do have bad days, but
there is so much support
out there and I have taken
the opportunity to get it,”
she said.
“They know what’s
going on for female veterans and I tell my friends
that they need to be a part
of it. I don’t care if you
had the best deployment
ever – it’s important that
you’re there and talking.”
Since her return, Bundas is still employed at the
VA, has purchased her
own home and now has a
4-year-old girl.
“I’ve accomplished so
much and I never
would’ve been able to do
these things without my
time in the service,” she
said. “If you asked my
older son, he would tell
you he’s thankful mommy
joined the Army. It was
hard on him, because he
was old enough to know
what was happening, but
he has also seen the benefits.
“Serving was the hardest thing I’ve ever done,
but the things I gained
from it outweigh the hardship and I am appreciative
of all the good things that
happened and that everyone in my unit made it
home. That was the best
news. Did I personally go
out and save anyone’s life?
No, but I made sure that
the stories of people who
did were told.”
CAROL ANN FAUSONE
Carol Ann Fausone of Canton, took her
oath with the U.S. Air Force in 1977. She has
since devoted her life to the service of her
country – not only rising through the ranks
to become the first female brigadier general
in the history of the Michigan National
Guard, but making it her mission to help
veterans secure the education, benefits and
health care they are due.
Fausone said her grandfather, a World
War I veteran, inspired her to enlist with his
stories and his great love of country.
“There was something in me that wanted
to serve my country and I knew I wanted to
be a nurse,” she said. “It kind of fit, because
nursing can be done in the air and on the
ground and that’s how I got there.
“It’s a lot different today in that women
are more recognized. In the state of Michigan, I believe we have about 45,000 female
veterans, which was unheard of back then.
Women always had certain roles, but now
they can have any role, really. We have
female fighter pilots, female security police.
It’s an issue of what’s in your heart and your
leadership abilities and that’s something the
men go through, too.”
Fausone said a few of the most problematic issues facing both female and male
veterans today are accessibility to health
care and affordable housing.
“I am passionate about these issues,” she
said. “Our veterans should not be treated in
cookie-cutter fashion. We need to listen to
their issues and help them – not just the
veterans, but their families. Our families
have sacrificed while we served.
“We are trying to help our women who
are homeless, but the number keeps going
up and when children are involved that is
very difficult. Sometimes our veterans have
trouble reaching out, especially women,
because they tend to take care of everyone
else before they take care of themselves.”
In addition to her military service, Fausone was the director of nursing at St. Mary
Mercy Hospital in Livonia and oversaw the
ER at St. John’s in Detroit and Macomb
County.
As for what she credits with her rise
through the ranks, Fausone stresses the
importance of leadership and problemsolving.
“Some of the ceilings have been broken
for women today – there’s a three-star and a
four-star (general) out there,” she said. “You
can aspire, but it still starts with you and
your roles and leadership.”
Throughout her career, Fausone was
singled out for responsibilities that she says
were “out of the norm” – as vice commander
of the medical squadron at Selfridge, for
example, and later the medical commander.
“That wasn’t heard of,” she said. “With
Carol Ann Fausone of Canton took her
oath with the U.S. Air Force in 1977,
rising through the ranks to become the
first female brigadier general in the
history of the Michigan National Guard.
traditional roles, it was always a physician
who was the commander and predominantly they were male. I broke that ceiling.”
She was later one of several females
around the country to be selected as medical commander at a national level and
was responsible for 45 units at Langley
Air Force Base in Virginia. From 2001-05,
she served as the assistant for mobilization and reserve affairs, where she developed and implemented health care
programs, policy and operations for the
department. From 2003-11, she was the
assistant adjutant general of veterans
affairs for the Michigan Department of
Military and Veterans Affairs.
Fausone’s passion for veterans rights
continued after her retirement from the
service, when she promptly created The
Veterans Advocate, LLC in order to guide
veterans and their families in securing
their benefits. Her husband Jim, an attorney, provides legal aid to veterans and
their families at Legal Help for Veterans,
PLLC.
“Whether I am helping our veterans or
my constituents, I have an entire toolbox
of resources after all these years,” she
said. “My dream would be to be queen for
a day and make changes to these rules, to
change why it takes so long to get an answer for a grant. The VA is working on it,
but there are still issues out there.
“I’m a fix-it person. I love challenges
and issues – that’s been my whole life. As
an ER nurse, we had to make decisions
quickly and take care of people and whether it’s in my business, the military or on
the campaign trail, when people come up
to me with an issue, they know I care. I
know if I look behind me, people are going
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