Insurance has doubled, tripled and in some cases quadrupled for adult day centers facilities, as gas prices have also increased by about 42 percent.

Our adult day centers across the state have been really struggling to continue their operation.

When you're talking about a frail person who is taking care of a spouse it'd be very difficult to load that person in and out of the vehicle. We're also talking about people who are wheel chairs or use walkers, which makes it very difficult to get in an out of car.

They know the structure of the test and they know the format. So when they come on test day they are not nervous because they know what to expect.

I freaked out. I'm generally a calm, level-headed person who doesn't get too excited about much. But that day I literally floated.

I'm sure she got 200 to 300 pairs a day, but someone brought mine to her. She took them with her to her farm in Indiana for a three-day weekend. She called me the following Tuesday and said she'd worn them the entire weekend.