[Magdalen] How is everyone?

[Bob Rea]

This was in reply to a general message on another list asking how everyone is. 

On Friday, August 19, 2016 09:40:32 PM you wrote:
> Hi y’all

My situation is not the greatest. My Social Security and Food Stamps do not 
quite stretch to my needs. I started work the first of the year as a Courtesy 
Clerk at a local Kroger. This involved bagging, as well as rounding up and 
returning carts, floor and bathroom cleaning, clean ups and whatever else. 

I have arthritis and eventually, lately, it was clear to me that I wasn't 
improving from the exercise. I did lose 20 pounds. But the pain wasn't getting 
any better. I was burdened enough that I could do little but what was 
necessary and only some of that. I kept telling myself that I was improving, 
and then that I would improve. Finally I saw through my denial and resigned.

I am now looking for another job. Sadly, job-hunting taps into the deep 
feeling of incompetence I learned as a child, and I bog down. My depressed 
script of "Oh well, it wouldn't do any good anyway."

So now I am just basically scraping through. I will make it I think, but I am 
relearning frugality the hard way. It's a long haul; my Social Security 
doesn't come until the fourteenth of this month.

On a better side I have left my previous doctor, who was always rushed, and 
never told me what I needed to know, especially how and when to take my meds. 
This new person, a Nurse Practitioner is much better. We are reorganizing my 
insulin routine, how much I take and when, which I was negotiating myself. I 
told her "I don't know what is just old age; I've never been old before."

Other health problems are enlarged prostate and of course the depression, 
which is life-long.

So prayers are in order. Please.

-- 
Bob Rea
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