foxysdad

Got better news at the doc's today.  Blood pressure is down, but still too high.  Have lost another 7 pounds.  Not too bad for what I've been eating.  Legs are down to almost normal size.  The...

I lost a friend this afternoon.  He died from complications following surgery.  Some would say Kirby was living on borrowed time.  He had died 3 times on the operating table during bypass surgery...

I've been thinking about my retirement.  Both of my sisters are happy I'm doing it, saying it's about time.  But I'm not too sure.  My work has been my life.  I've been identified by my job...

I used my food stamp card this morning.  It's called the Lone Star Card here in Texas.  You can only buy food with it.  Items to clean up the mess from the results from eating the food or cleaning...

I'm retiring!  I went to the social security office this morning and got some great news.  I can retire now and still apply for disability.  Filled out all the paperwork and will get my first...

I give up!  The Texas Health and Human Services Department says the only thing I qualify for is $51 A MONTH for Food.  No help with rent.  No help with medical.  No help with utilities. ...

Got notification in the mail that I have an interview with Texas Health and Human Services to determine if I qualify for food stamps, and help with my rent and utilities.  I'll get all my paperwork...

Foxy has been a little standoffish the past month or so.  She hasn't slept with me in a long time. I figure she doesn't want to try to get on the new mattress. See's it as too much of a hassle since...

Something is working!  My chest pains have gone away!  Not sure which of the 2 new pills did the job: the one for my stomach or the extra one for blood pressure.  It's great that the pain has gone...

I've been having trouble with my cable for about a month now.  The box I'd had for about 2 years went out and I went to the office to get a replacement.  The girl said I had an old box and she'd...

Finally went to the doc this afternoon.  Had to get my metformin prescription refilled.  I told him I was falling apart and he agreed with me.  Blood pressure was way too high and that scared me...

I'm about to give up looking for a job.  I'm tired of searching the internet and newspaper classifieds; submitting applications; and getting no responses.  Nobody wants to talk to me.  I can't...

I've lost a friend.  Actually, I didn't lose her.  I deleted her from my friend list.  After several messages about a journal I wrote, I just gave up.  She will never feel about me now like she...

I've been thinking about those two photographs of the first house I lived in.  It changed my history as I knew it.  When I saw the house with no grass in the yards and no fences in the back yard...

Some of my new friends may think my status is a bit odd, "Mom is back".  My mom isn't visiting me physically.  Her spirit is here.  I was living with my mom when she died and couldn't afford to...