JH> get a life alert thing.

  I can't afford it...you try living on just over $1000 a month. I know folks
who get less than I do, and they're in far worse shape than I am. I'm seriously
considering cutting back to eating 1 meal a day, and not even 1000 calories in
a day...just enough to have food to take medications with.

  The price of everything (especially groceries, gasoline, and utilities) has
gone through the roof. The people in Washington, DC (who lament they can't
survive on $200,000 a year) have no idea what life is like in "the real world".
These "lifetime politicians" give voters the thumbs up before the election...
and give voters "the bird" afterwards. I have nothing but utmost contempt for
all of them. I'm so sick of the political correctness and corruption that I
don't even watch TV anymore...and haven't powered up the TV's here in the last
4 years.

 JH> why are you in such bad shape? youre not that old. maybe you
 JH> need physical rehab

  Again, I can't afford it. The government considers what I get in disability
as "too much money" for SSI (don't get me started on that), and I'm ineligible
for home health care as I'm not "homebound" (stuck at home). Yet, at 62, I've
got nearly 50 medical conditions, including congestive heart failure and atrial
fibrillation, and have to use a walker everywhere I go.

  Basically, unless folks have walked a mile in my shoes, they have no right
to talk.

Daryl

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