[Magdalen] How is everyone?

[Marilyn Cepeda]

Prayers.....hoping things improve.

On Thursday, September 1, 2016, Bob Rea <petard at petard.us> wrote:

> 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
> www.petard.us
> www.petard.us/blog
>
> America, it was a wonderful country
> Til they took it private
> and made it a theme park of itself
>


-- 
Marilyn (Owens, Palmero) Cepeda