Wife of ex-QB & Great Dad; Mom of two AWESOME millennials. Supporter of the NFL Disabled. Jesus has my ❤️ Fan of The Chosen series. Instagram majkowski_created.
Well…here we are again! Surgery
#24
&25! Hip replacement and Gluteal Reconstruction/Repair on
@Dmajik7
. I’m here making sure they mark the Right hip! The Left one is next! 1989 was a great season but it definitely left a mark! Life after the
@NFL
. Send prayers up! I need him!❤️
Today I dropped my husband
@dmajik7
off for his
#23
surgery from 10 years in the
@NFL
. Plz send a prayer up for him. Living life with a body that’s degenerating daily isn’t easy. He’s a fighter! And he hopes the fight for changes to the 2020 CBA will also help the
#400forgotten
.
…35 years ago years later, February 25th,
@Dmajik7
turns 60! Happy Birthday, my lifetime best friend.
Thank you for growing with me every year.
And prayers for growing old with me for many more!
I love you! ❤️🙏🏼❤️
Surgery
#22
is complete for
@Dmajik7
! This time it was on his neck to relieve some pinching of his nerve root in his spinal column. A lot of peeps praying for him this morning. I love our little village! ❤️🙏🏼
@dmajik7
UPDATE:
Your prayers are working! 🥰💋We broke Don out of the hospital this AM. Drs found a 50% & 70% tear on gluteal minimus & medius tendons. Repaired & reattached those. Definitely needed hip replacement. Lots of trauma there🏈. Doctors continue to rebuild him! 👨⚕️❤️
TODAY is
@Dmajik7
BIRTHDAY! Our dear friend Harry Stoetzel ❤️ passed away last year. He was my mentor & huge help while I was producing Dons GB
@Packers
Hall of Fame induction videos. His son Nick posted them today of Dons GBPHOF honor.
This just came for
@Dmajik7
from his Fork Union Military Family! Don went there for one year to gain a football scholarship, and he made lasting friendships and support during his football career and personally! His eyes lit up like this…😍! Thank you!!!!
@FUMAAthletics
My husbands body may be broken but I PRAY his brain won’t leave me. ❤️😢
@dmajik7
@NFL
Please take care of our men with traumatic brain
#TBI
and repeated head injuries
#RHI
, Research and make the changes for our players & for the game.
#nflwivesforchange
#CTE
“Of the 202 players, 111 of them played in the NFL — and 110 of those were found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., the degenerative disease believed to be caused by repeated blows to the head.
@cousinssubs
@jambam0506
We need a “Cousin’s Subs” in Atlanta!!! It’s a Majkowski Family favorite spot when we are in Wisconsin!
@dmajik7
and I have probably been there 5x in the last 7 days! 😂
Jesus was an amazing force that lived on this earth. If you have never researched Him to find out more, why not take some time & see what you find out? I’m glad I did. He takes my good & my bad and shapes me every day. Even my worst day is better b/c I have Him in it with me.❤️
Picking
@Dmajik7
up from the hospital today! Can’t wait to get him home. Looks like 12 weeks with a neck brace and hopefully we have a success! Next on the agenda,
#24
, hernia surgery. Thanks for all the great messages and encouragement. I will make sure Don reads them all. ❤️
If u have a favorite player either current or former, who gave his all to the game, his teammates & the fans, please share this. U will be giving back by helping in the fight for their health, their bodies & their brains after football. I fight for
@dmajik7
. Who do u fight for?
Retired NFL players
@Aveion_Cason23
&
@Dmajik7
filed a lawsuit to restore benefits to 400+ disabled NFL players. Promised benefits were drastically reduced by the latest CBA. They seek a grandfather clause protecting disabled players.
#Forgotten400
We received one of these letters. Took it to our financial advisor asking “how can we make this work & give
@Dmajik7
the care he needs”. We RESPONSIBLY planned our future w/this letter. Now,
@NFL
&
@NFLPA
doesn’t feel he deserves what was to care for him FOR LIFE as they stated.
When NFL Disability recipients recv’d these letters from the
@NFL
they took these to financial advisors & banks to plan their lives & care for their disabled. Now the
@NFLPA
let them use this $ to bargain w/ to secure better benefits for others who are not disabled.
#400forgotten
Hoping we would get some good time off with no surgeries!
Our Life/Surgery schedule has been like this:
Surgery,
6 month recovery,
6-8 month of gaining some life back,
Surgery.
# 26 on the way!
@dmajik7
is honestly one tough man.
💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼❤️🥰 🏈💚💛💙🤍💙🩶
THIS IS NOT OK! Disabled retired players who built this game are getting pay cuts. Many rely on this for medical bills, in home care, food for their families. And the billion$ owners want it.
@nfl
Wouldnt it be fun if there was a $ amount that
@PowerballUSA
/
#MegaMillions
would get to, say $900M. If it gets to $900M w/out a winner, make the next drawing the closest 900 tickets all win $1 million! No one person needs $900M. But $1M could help 900 families in our country🤷🏻♀️
Great news for over 400
@NFL
disabled former players today! In one of his first tasks as the new
@NFLPA
Executive Director, Lloyd Howell fought for the former players to keep their benefits from being cut almost 30% and got it done! So many families happy today!
@Nflpa
reached an agreement w/
@NFL
on Thurs to preserve disability benefits of 100s of former players 3 months before players were set to lose $1000s/month. Now we need to have a fair reevaluation system put in place. Thank you Lloyd Howell.
@nytimes
Thank you for creating another avenue to get the word out for
#The400Forgotten
. This info ridden podcast explains how the
@NFLPA
@NFL
& the 2020 CBA have taken funding from 400 NFL Disabled former players who qualified for NFL Disability, some over a decade ago. Great work.
NEW EPISODE:
#TheForgotten400
In the latest
#ConductDetrimental
, I examine how hundreds of disabled former NFL players are thrown under the bus in the new CBA, and why the new rules renege on the promise that Roger Goodell made to Congress back in 2007.
STOP RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN THE NFL CONCUSSION SETTLEMENT-Sign the Petition! via
@Change
So much injustice going on in the NFL today. This could be the pinnacle. Consider supporting this petition & ur favorite NFL player. Chances are this affects them.
This is REALLY difficult to understand.
@NFL
and
@NFLPA
what’s really behind this? Neither side will be dented by a $12M cut to families of YOUR NFL Disabled who you,
@DeSmithNFLPA
are supposed to represent but instead used for bargaining? 🤔
The SSDI money being taken from hundreds of disabled players adds up to approximately $12 million or 0.14% of
@dallascowboys
owner Jerry Jones' $8.1 Billion. If you divide the $12 million by 32 it comes to $375,000 from each owner's pocket.
#That
's 0.004681% of Jones' wealth.
@ChidiAhanotu
@Dmajik7
@NFL
I will, he will want to read all these when he gets out and awake. And thanks for all your support with “disability fight” going on. You all deserve to be seen, heard and respected! ❤️
A must see to understand how the
@NFL
is handling brain damage that playing Football has caused so many retired players and how they are using race-norming to deny “help” for these families.
NEW: Part 3 in my investigative series looking at the NFL concussion settlement: AMON GORDON. His story — his fight— is pivotal, and this is his first time speaking publicly. Pls share
@RoxyGordon16
#NFL
Pool therapy with a real therapist! Anything for some daily relief! And always better with a pool involved!
@Dmajik7
Still waiting for C-4 to 7 fusion approval from the
@nfl
.
@AaronRodgers12
@DavidBakhtiari
@lanetaylor65
@HighRizer22
Your support could help many families of Former Disabled GBPackers, some who you know personally, that the “after the vote” newly added clause will change & cut their benefits. Consider them, read this & voice ur concern.
BOTTOM LINE:
The added change
@E_Reid35
is fighting here, CUTS the earned Disability that ur
@NFLPA
DISABLED live on; players from the 70s,80s&90s that the FANS enjoyed over the years, now dealing w/chronic pain, surgeries, brain trauma. Will YOU fight for them? Spread the word!
I'd like to thank
@S_CasonRN
for starting "The Conversation" as our first guest author for our new column on race. Shannon shares what it's like growing up biracial in the deep south.
1/7 : A cool story from my time in Green Bay -
The day of the
#Packers
v Lions game I decided to get some breakfast at a local diner. As I sat there, some guy called Bryan who was sat next to me at the bar asked for me to pass him something.
Just one of the many former players being denied benefits, having benefits stripped from them and being denied concussion settlements base on race. Sigh. This needs to be made right. For our former, current AND future players.
#Forgotten400
Video contains:
Various GBP Highlights
Interviews with GBP fans
Hall of Fame intro at Lambeau Atrium
HOF induction speeches
The Story of Don Majkowski through the Eyes of a Girl from Wisconsin
Dons Hall of Fame speech.
This is what we are trying to change. Those suffering from traumatic brain injuries & dementia, chronic pain & bodies that cant be healed,
#400forgotten
players left behind by 2020 CBA having benefits stripped from them or just not paying those suffering at all.
@WomenoftheNFL
Stories like this are typical w/the
@NFL
/
@NFLPA
, continuing to leave behind disabled retired players. Now asking to dismiss complaint that wants to support these players, stating they have “no duty or responsibility” to maintain support for them.
@psecundaWrkProf
#400forgotten
@sobczak_dave
@Dmajik7
@NFL
Thanks for asking. All went great! They found a lot once they got in there! Lots of trauma but they keep rebuilding him! Waiting to break him out of the hospital now. He just needs his walker approved!🤦🏻♀️😂.
@BenefitsHuddle
@WALLACHLEGAL
It’s unsettling there is no set process or clear definition. It’s left open for opinion. Line of Duty has a point system. What is the reason the Disability Plan did not adopt the same processes?
@GoForDaGusto
@Dmajik7
@packers
😂. He’s feeling better, thanks for asking. He’s past the surgery pain. Now he just has to get through the next ten weeks, keeping his neck brace on without moving it. He’s been a good patient. 💪🏼
@YetDead
@Dmajik7
Wear and tear over the years. This was his throwing shoulder so it’s been through a lot. He had repairs done on his Rotator cuff, labrum and biceps tendon.
@NFL
You are apologizing.👌🏼What will WE see from u NOW? I see how the 32 owners throw their Disabled under “the rug” & discredit them. We’ve seen how you have done that with
@Kaepernick7
&
@E_Reid35
. If you would only STOP & LISTEN. YOU have the power to heal. Please! Just do it.
@GaryEllerson
No one in the staircases of the Twin Towers that day saw color of skin, job rank or gender. At that moment they (we) were actually all equal & free to love or hate eachother & human nature chose LOVE. Now so many choose hate and division, led by a whole different force entirely.
@DawnNeufeld
@SheillaDingus
@JCTretter
When his rotator cuff tears in two, achilles tears in two, his ankles are fused, his back is fused, his neck needs to be fused, he needs hips injections to sit for any period of time & elbows need injections to pick up and drink from a coffee cup! Maybe then he will understand.
@JCTretter
The fact that there is a missing clause in the CBA that was added, gives
@JCTretter
an opportunity to stand up firm for a big number of men HE represents. You could move a mountain, JC. This could be the 1st GREAT thing you can be proud of in your new position.
@NFLPA
@ESPNNFL
@GoForDaGusto
@Dmajik7
@packers
Oh my gosh. I’ve never seen this one! Thank you for posting. Can’t believe they even gave out Paul’s jersey. Don had no idea until it was too late. Doesn’t Don look young for the NFL? I didn’t meet him for another 2 years. He looks young! Awesome. Thanks again.
@Dmajik7
and I will never forget this experience together! ❤️
@VidAngel
did an amazing job planning, keeping everyone safe and accommodating all the could for the weather.
"The Chosen" director Dallas Jenkins joined us on
@TMZLive
to chat about how he managed to shoot an epic sermon scene with 2000+ extras ... and in the middle of a pandemic! Check your local listings for showtimes:
@BenefitsHuddle
@gr8mimicindy
Interesting. Never thought of it this way. Processing🤔 The more years a player plays, the higher the pension benefit credits. UNLESS playing all those years leaves your body disabled and on T&P, then its really NOT a “credit”, since they SUBTRACT the credit OFF the T&P benefit.