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Not old enough for Medicare and going broke with company insurance
Aging Well | Last Active: Sep 4, 2022 | Replies (23)Comment receiving replies
....life can be so hard sometimes, either income-related, illness, location, abuse etc. etc. and especially lately with covid expenses, doubt if world will ever be the same as we once new it... or did we really know it? ... now we get news from across the globe as it happens, good or bad and usually bad....don't have grandchildren but children are growing up in these circumstances, not ours, so nothing to compare it with... we don have a lot but now older some savings but too ill to travel and clothes dont ware out etc. ..i would gladly be back at work at a job I didnt like .well like the job and clients just not a happy place to work... and swap it for this constant illness. and yes taxes and prices going up every day, can almost hear them. the future is going to be interesting paying for all the extra expenses of covid.... but all countries facing I would think...at least I have background in not having much expendable income but for those who haven't sure is going to be a shock....in the meantime, stay safe and buy lottery tickets .... bad joke but we have no control any more!!! take care
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Sadly, you hit the nail on the head. To many poor people play the lottery to bank their future instead of using it today to live, especially if they have children. We were dirt poor after my daddy was killed in a coal mining accident when I was 7yo. I went to bed hungry many time. Did you ever hear the saying “Lick the plate clean?” My mother lived during the great depression in the United States as a young girl and you never wasted any food, so you licked the plate clean of any morsel of food. That habit was passed along to us children after my daddy was killed. To this very day, I never leave any food go to waste. If I make it, I eat it, all of it. And at almost 80, I still catch myself licking the plate clean. Yes, life is cruel and it’s not worth living it anymore. Thankfully, my body is so ravaged by diseases, I count my life in seconds. Each day, each hour, each minute, each second is like a miniature lifetime flashing by in my brain. But here I am, trapped in a time warp, unable to escape this world that is literally tarring itself apart. Thanks for chatting. @becky1024
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You are correct on many points. Things aren't the same as they were. Illness really complicates things. However, prayer really does work and it also helps to have a friendly pawn shop nearby when answers to prayers are slow in coming!