Going Home, going home!!

Finally I am driving home, plans are to start the drive on the morning of the 8th. It will take three days at least. I am going to Devon and Annie's and will be there a week or two while getting my apartment all set to move into. I am so excited to see my family, those little kids and Max, growing huge in Annie's belly. It will be so good to be home and to see the mountains and lakes and the ocean/sound again. Never before have I appreciated Washington state more.

I will drive almost 2000 miles with my mini poodle Nikki and stop as we need to.

I'm So in Love with You....Justin and Al

Here it is, Justin and Al singing whatever the song is called that I just love. Check it out if you missed the Grammy's or if you just want to hear it one more time.

O M G Moment

I saw the start of the Grammy's tonight. Al Green started singing Ever and then Justin Timberlake joined him and it was an O M G moment. Justin really is soooo hot. Al Green is from my era and Justin is NOW.
Love love love Al and Justin together.

Going Home

I am getting close to going home. It may even be the end of this month. The plan is to drive home with Nikki and put Nikki in a kennel, maybe with Randy, until I get moved into my new apartment. It is exciting to think about. But I also have to get well. I have had this vomiting thing going on since I got the flu from my daughter-in-law three weeks ago. It started with being dizzy. Then lurching vomiting and then the hospital, and IV and anti-nausea meds into the IV and back home to recover. Only I have never fully recovered. I feel good one day and then nausea the next. I have lost ten more pounds. I weigh what I did in high school, which sounds good but my muscle mass has been lost too. I am no longer 17.


So I am hoping the doc I go to Monday will be able to help so I can drive home.

Who cares about seniors?

Apparently no one. The state I have temporarily adopted, Kansas, has a "very old system" of how they determine eligibility and poverty levels. She actually said that it would be up to the legislature to change this. She said that by the time they actually use my currrent income to determine my eligibility it will be March. I will very hopefully be home in Washington state by then and I am praying that their system will be more modern, more updated. I am hoping I will have somewhere to go to get some kind of health care relief before September when I turn 65 and will be on Medicare.

Young people would think, oh, just 8 months or so, no problem. Young people tend to be healthier than we seniors. I have prescription drugs that I depend on for my daily health that cost over $200 a month and some are more. The pain medication I take is about $250 a month. Yes, I have paid that for them. I have been living with my son so I can use my small unemployment or now my disability income to pay for them. But when I am paying rent and food and all the other things one pays to maintain a life I won't have extra money to pay for those meds.

So far I do not know exactly what Washington state's medical care is like for those who are disabled and are under 65. It is coming time to find out. I have found a couple places to live but what will happen to me with health care? Oh, and I have to wait another 3 weeks or so before I can even think of coming home, when my lump sum comes for past months.

I am seriously taking this issue as my own and when I get home I am going to do some changing, some letter writing. In fact I should start here in Kansas. Who speaks for them? Who?