Yo Yo, Peeps, I am here! I have had a very busy month...as VPA said, I had a ton of Drs appts, including SI joint injections. My son, Jay, came to visit for a week, we had a week of recuperation, then more Dr. appts, then Josh came for a week. So, we've been busy! Trust me though, I am in extended exhausted mode for a bit, so I have been on here more. My depression has escalated (if you can escalate down, that is!), with the shrink trying yet ANOTHER antidepressant to see if it will work (beware folks with GBS and depression--they just don't work together!)
We have been doing all that we can to get Michelle the knee replacement she so badly needs, and with CMS, you know that is a sllllllllow process. We're hoping for some food stamps to help with the food bills, and I am in the process of applying for some help with P.A.W.S. (Pets Are Wonderful Support) to get food, litter, vaccines, etc for the gang here. It's a full time job juggling our meager resources and looking for ways to get the kind of help we need. I joke about having a cyber bake sale, but I don't know what else to do! I can't give blood, I have nothing worth selling, and I have been using my credit card to augment my social security and disability, and we all know that is a slippery slope!
It is also absolutely killing me that there is most likely no way on Earth that we would be able to afford the cruise in December.
I have never been too excited about taking a cruise, but to be able to meet so many of the people I have grown to love, while sailing to Cozumel, the island of my heart, as well as Grand Cayman, a place I have always wanted to see, well, it makes me want to sit down and cry. (welcome to my pity party!)
I have actually been trying to think of good places to move to where I can get more for my buck than here in SoCal. It's hard, as I know my spirit and soul live here, and Michelle has never lived anywhere else in her whole life, but the fact remains we don't have enough money to live here. At least not until Michelle gets her knee and gets rehabbed and finds a decent paying job. That would help immensely, but there is no way she could work right now.
Sorry to be such a whiner when so many of us have such greater burdens, but you asked where I was.....this is where I am!
