I too had to walk to school, but with sidewalks! I do feel if there’s a house, it should have a sidewalk.

Love sidewalks.

A disappointment. I’m not a swing state, but was really hoping to try some coconut ice cream!

He can get married. To another “adult disabled since childhood” which I’m not. Otherwise he loses ssdi and medicare/medicaid. I’d have to support him yes, which I can’t right now.

Something similar happened to my husband about 20 years ago. He has ssdi, and can only work a certain amount of hours a month. He tried one month to see if he could do full time work. Nope, impossible.

And so gets kicked off ssdi, and had to fight to get back on it. And they charged him for being on it…by deducting the money he now ‘owed’ them from the new ssdi. It was stupid.

The laws in place are also why my husband is husband in name only. If we ever actually got married, goodbye everything keeping him alive! It sucks.

I’m so happy there is a chickenpox vaccine! I was at the edge of that, getting it before it was available. It was hell.

It was more hell for my mother who had never gotten chickenpox as a child. So had it as an adult. Agony! And have to deal with sick twins!

Most hospitals will remove the cost entirely if you are uninsured and make under a certain amount.

Example. My husband recently (…okay, 2 years ago, but the passage of time hurts) had to go to the hospital, and be admitted for, an infected insect bite. No cost on admittance. Had to stay a few days to be on ivs.

Over the course of the next few months we get the bills. Which we can’t pay. But we have the number for the part of the hospital that can lower the costs.

We give them all the information, then wait.

One day a lady drives up to our place, hands my husband a piece of paper saying he owes the hospital nothing, then leaves. It was surreal.

The cats tell me I can trust them, so clearly they’re trustworthy! Right??