I counted backwards by 7 or some such, and he checked my medicines, declared that I was not on meds for senility and that he had more questions.
LOL, one was did I go through the great depression of the 1930’s, “yes”, then he says, “I took special classes on dealing with depression survivors, they always save every thing they can get their hands on to save”, declared his case closed, but warned me that the fools at the senior center might keep after me to move to town, like a good liberal is trained to think, can’t have the old gals, keeping alive and living on choice land, that we could buy.
LOL, the nice man did tell me that I qualified to go to the old Miners home, if that sounded better to me, to let him know and he would get me in.
I'd like to shake that guy's hand. I'm glad you got a man (case worker?) who had some common sense and common decency. LOL, neither of which is very common, is it? A man who remembers that people have dignity, dreams, and hopes, and that government is not the answer to everything. It warms my heart to have a guy like that working for the State of Arizona. I love that state and I love to hear good things about it.
Do you know grandpa lived for 35 more years after living at the ranch? He was 67 when he had the heart attack and never had another one. So moving him down here was probably for nothing, after all. Too bad. But then grandma was happier in town, she liked the bright lights and fast cars, LOL. What dear people. I'm sorry you lost Bill, he sounded like a great fellow.
I have a life-threatening disease at the age of 55 and I hope to live long enough to see my grandchildren. My son is only 18 so that means I have to work hard to stay alive. I'm on dialysis three days a week so that's when I've been reading through this thread. I would like to start an index for it so people can find stuff. Maybe I can put the index on my FR home page under my name. We'll see... it's hard to type with one hand, the other has to stay immobile during the procedure. My dialysis time is now down to 3 hours instead of 3.5, so that was a nice thing to hear.
Hope your arms are better today. Is the barometer falling, or is dampness on the way? That might be what's causing your discomfort, I hope that's all it is.
I am sorry that you have health problems, you don’t need them and they are no fun.
You shall certainly be in my prayers.
You are younger than my kids, today, it seems like most people are. [That does not mean that I am old.!!]
Bad health is no fun, and I did not plan for it, for myself, there was another world or two that I planned to conquer after I retired.
Little did I realize that my world would be as long as my connection to the oxygen generator and that is about 40 foot.
Emphysema does that to you, when added to other problems.
There are too many days that I can barely lift my arms and so I do what I can when I can, which is less all the time.
An index of this would be wonderful, I was keeping a general index on paper and lost the first half, when it fell behind the desk and there is no way to get it out, without a major operation.
Yes, I got off lucky, with the Man from the State, if it had been another liberal broad, I would have been in trouble.
My mobile is old and falling apart, but the land is an extra special, view lot, there are new homes going in on the adjoining lots, so I expect more troubles at any time.
I bought this place over 30 years ago, already set up, Bill fell in love with Kingman, I did not and will not, it is just not the place for me.