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I have a strict 9pm rule for most people, except for my BFF, because of the hardships she's going through being technically homeless, currently sleeping in a run down 70's era travel trailer, and addicted to crack and severe seizure disorder. However she is voluntarily signed up on a waiting list for inpatient rehab because she wants off the shit, it's a 90 day program that will help her find housing once she completes it, and help her with disability benefits for her seizures.
@NativePortlander1970 Wishing her all the best.
@Musicman Thank you, sadly it seems as though I am the only real friend in her life that truly wants her to get on her feet, and I'm stuck 12 hours away too sick to travel to see her.
@NativePortlander1970 Some days life just sucks! ☹️
@Musicman Indeed
@NativePortlander1970 I hope you get better so you can go visit her.
@Musicman I'm terminal on assisted oxygen 24/7, a cardiopulmonary disease called CTEPH.
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@NativePortlander1970 I am so sorry 💔😢😢😢
@Musicman Thank you, it took me three years to get disability, I even had to fire my pro bono lawyer because he claimed I was being psychosomatic and wanted to pursue the mental angle. Here's what even more messed up, he's a cardio patient on anticoagulants himself, as well as a friend to my mother, and a substitute preacher at her former church she retired from as their secretary, yet a christian retired prosecutor part time preacher insisted I lie about my disability to social security, a governmental agency that prosecutes fraud. And people wonder why I'm an Atheist.
@NativePortlander1970 Wrong is just wrong! You did the right thing.
@Musicman Thank you. When I went to my hearing before the district social security administrative law Judge, I read ojt loud a statement I wrote, including what my former lawyer tried getting me to do, as well as what I was going through emotionally with having once been very healthy and active, reduced to getting very fatigued and short of breath just walking across my mother's apartment where I was staying at the time, the Judge approved me because of my honesty, he also started an investigation into my former lawyer's other cases because of what I said what he had done and attempted to force me to lie.
@NativePortlander1970 I am happy that part ended well for you. Do you still live with your mother? Do you need constant care?
@Musicman Thank you, no, I am on my own in a low imcome disability/62+ retirement building. So far I can still take care of myself and have a 2010 Dodge SUV to get to my dr appointments and run errands when I have the energy to. However, I am also a realist and know I may need to go into assisted living in the future.
@NativePortlander1970 I hope that isn't for a long time to come. Is your mom still alive? How is her health? Sadly both of my parents are gone now. 😢
@Musicman I hope not as well. Yes, she is, but as far as her health I couldn't care less. My Dad died when I was ten in early 1981, and she made my life hell after he died. I should also add that she always opposed anything I did in life, criticizing everything, and even took my former lawyer's side, because they were friends from her church.
@NativePortlander1970 I am sorry to hear that. 💔😢