Monday, July 13, 2009

Catching up on grunt work and responsibility

We stayed home today! Which is a rarity these days, if you have been keeping up with us lately? We jet setters needed to touch base and accomplish many very important necessaries such as: attaining clean clothes; translation: doing laundry, and organizing our financial information for our six month check in with the governmental officials: translation: the Health Department.

Fear was rampant today when we received a final notice on one of my hubby’s bills today and we both went slightly berserk since it was the hefty hospital one that demanded full payment of thousands within ten days! Wow and whoa… we checked and called the powers that be and found out that it is still pending and under advisement for another possible discounted amount and therefore there was a miss in the mails crossing and it was sent in error, since there is a hold on that account, whew!

Talk about stressful situations friends this is why escapism is not an unrealistic way of coping with this mechanism, or coping mechanism, either is correct, you know?
We have not been trying to flee the country, besides I never renewed my passport from way back when I was just a single pup, I suppose that should be kitten.
But hubby did… nah, he wouldn’t go without me.

I know we are all supposed to have them these days and I really should have gone eons ago, but most recently I guess it has been a vanity issue, I don’t look that great, in my mirror I look like C--P…at the very least not as good as I used to, and so I hate being photographed, and aren’t they expensive?
A quick surf of the net came up with prices from anywhere from around $50 to $65, is that correct? I was right, right now that isn’t in our budget and if it was I rather spend it on that escapism project anyway! Don’t you agree that would be putting those bucks to better use? Don’t driver’s licenses work for picture ID anymore, anyway?

Sunday, I read for the umpteenth time in the editorial section of the paper someone taking issue with fatty’s utilizing motorized scooters for transporting themselves as well as the handicap placards. And so I gave in my two cents with my own personal story, which proves you should not assume! It’s the old story of which came first the chicken or the egg? Some assume that obesity created the medical issues not that it possibly was the medical issues that could have anything to do with why the person got fat? Now with me it was a matter of medications and stopping smoking and then being told that those nasty pounds I put on weren’t going anywhere since my walking an hour a day was making my hips and shoulders worse. (The shoulders were due to the balance issue and switching off back and forth with the cane to maintain balance.) And since I had no monies to repair the problem I would have to stop, which in layman’s terms means if it hurts when you do this, don’t do this! Simple and concise, and I really do hope people will stop being so judgmental when they see people and not knowing the whole story. I foolishly have a tendency to explain to people who give me dirty looks or looked puzzled, since I am not paralyzed. And by the way these people who I mentioned feel those are the only ones who deserve those helpful items.
Walking is a great inexpensive exercise form, and I was a big promoter of that, since for many years I was a race walker and it was just marvelous, but stuff happens and things that you never expect happen and now all of us assumptioners ( another Tobism) get straightened out, I too assumed that exercise was the answer for everyone! Well, in recent years I have been born again with the reality of just what I can do for my medical issues, and oops, exercise is not on my dance card anywhere. Believe it; I keep looking, but nope …not there!

And so all I ask any of you is not to assume that, and that that person in the motorized chair is getting away with something, or too lazy, or just too fat to move, and that handicap placard was given to them because they weaseled it out of some doctor who did not know better and they begged to never have to walk too far ever again, because we just don’t know their personal story and I will be sure not to assume either anymore and I beg of you all not to either.

On that fateful request I will bid you all a good night and to all count those blessings and I will too!

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