Re: Nights alone

[Jed Blue <frodoq@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hang in there, Ivan. Your many friends will see you through the winter.
Just keep on believing in us, and we'll be there for  you.

Hilary Blue


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Ivan M Suzman wrote:
>
> Dear friends,
>
> Due to insufficient funds for state-paid caregivers, and also to my
> social security income being limited and fixed, I am without both an
> overnight and a Sunday daytime caregiver for the first time in three
> years.
>
> Maine only allows $6.25 / hour.  I am advertising for a full-time,
> live-in caretaker, in order to function without anxiety.  The cold
> weather has begun. I quickly lose heat and become painfully stiffened up
> whenever any dose is wearing off..
>
> So, for the moment, I am in distress, and spending very trying nights
> alone with my pet cat, Winnie.  Until the situation is resolved, I will
> have very little time to spare.  I have appealed to the network of
> APDA-sponsored support groups in Maine, and my dilemma has reached the
> APDA in New York for consideration.
>
> My house is specially adapted and built for the needs of Parkinson's
> people, so I dare not go elsewhere--and really do not have any options
> that make better sense. People who talk to me about nursing homes and
> "assisted living" are not seeing my house as a better option--oh, well!
>
> Thanks for listening,
>
> Ivan
> ^^^^^^WARM GREETINGS  FROM^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Ivan Suzman         48/12/9.5         cureit@xxxxxxxx
> Portland, Maine    Land of lighthouses   34    deg. F
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