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Hi all my IC friends, I've soooo missed you guys and not being able to get online!! I'm also having telephone issues, so I can't even really talk on the phone! I have been "out of touch" for a while now....
I'm finally settled, and I wanted to Thank You all for your prayers (I wasn't sure where to post this - guess the Prayer section is gone?). I (knock on wood) am doing much better. It's been tough, I've actually lived in 3 states in 3 weeks, and am finally getting settled (hopefully for a WHILE!) in Connecticut (only about 1/2 hour from my kids - YAY!).
I am truly Thankful for the way things have gone....I drove up from FL w/Greg, dropped him off w/his daughter and went to visit my kids. From there I went to stay at a friend's house who said I could stay there til July 1. I was looking at working part time ... and extremely SCARED to do it, my pain is so severe, I really didin't (and don't) think I could have. I ended up getting a 4 hour a week pretty low paying job, but then things changed.....this is where the "Thank You for the prayers" comes in.....
My friend that I was staying with gets up every morning and reads the paper, well she saw an ad that said "companion for elderly woman needed, free room, Christian preferred". She joked that I couldn't call on THAT ad! (I AM a Christian, but do sometimes sin (swear, etc...) so she made a joke of it. Well to make a very looong story short, I called, and after I met with them, it was apparent that they needed someone 24/7 for their Mom, so I figured out what I can still make and keep applying for SSDI and told them that's what I wanted to get paid. They liked me immediately and I am now caring for their 83 year old mother and staying in a little old house on 160 acres of beautiful farmlands, woods, rolling hills and stone walls, and getting paid for it!!
It IS TOUGH some days.....I'm not used to preparing 3 meals a day and caring for an elderly woman, but with my symptoms, it pains me to say (literally!!!) that we're alot alike!!!! I've been saying for quite some time now that I live like a 90 year old woman, now I'm sharing a home with one! I sit on the heating pad then put the heating pad on her while I do my stretching, then I do her stretching with her.... Her diet is unrestricted though, and that's a little tough sometimes. I was just denied SSDI again so I have to get an attorney now, but this isn't about all the crap I still have to do.............It's about letting you all know that (for now) things have gotten better for me and I Thank You all so much for your thoughts, words, and prayers, and I've missed you all terribly!
It's good to be back my friends, Thank You again!
I'm finally settled, and I wanted to Thank You all for your prayers (I wasn't sure where to post this - guess the Prayer section is gone?). I (knock on wood) am doing much better. It's been tough, I've actually lived in 3 states in 3 weeks, and am finally getting settled (hopefully for a WHILE!) in Connecticut (only about 1/2 hour from my kids - YAY!).
I am truly Thankful for the way things have gone....I drove up from FL w/Greg, dropped him off w/his daughter and went to visit my kids. From there I went to stay at a friend's house who said I could stay there til July 1. I was looking at working part time ... and extremely SCARED to do it, my pain is so severe, I really didin't (and don't) think I could have. I ended up getting a 4 hour a week pretty low paying job, but then things changed.....this is where the "Thank You for the prayers" comes in.....
My friend that I was staying with gets up every morning and reads the paper, well she saw an ad that said "companion for elderly woman needed, free room, Christian preferred". She joked that I couldn't call on THAT ad! (I AM a Christian, but do sometimes sin (swear, etc...) so she made a joke of it. Well to make a very looong story short, I called, and after I met with them, it was apparent that they needed someone 24/7 for their Mom, so I figured out what I can still make and keep applying for SSDI and told them that's what I wanted to get paid. They liked me immediately and I am now caring for their 83 year old mother and staying in a little old house on 160 acres of beautiful farmlands, woods, rolling hills and stone walls, and getting paid for it!!
It IS TOUGH some days.....I'm not used to preparing 3 meals a day and caring for an elderly woman, but with my symptoms, it pains me to say (literally!!!) that we're alot alike!!!! I've been saying for quite some time now that I live like a 90 year old woman, now I'm sharing a home with one! I sit on the heating pad then put the heating pad on her while I do my stretching, then I do her stretching with her.... Her diet is unrestricted though, and that's a little tough sometimes. I was just denied SSDI again so I have to get an attorney now, but this isn't about all the crap I still have to do.............It's about letting you all know that (for now) things have gotten better for me and I Thank You all so much for your thoughts, words, and prayers, and I've missed you all terribly!
It's good to be back my friends, Thank You again!
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