Why Work?
If you have read some of my earlier posts, you know that I have worked long and hard for many years as an RN. Most of the time I would pull overtime and worked parttime selling Amway, Herbalife, and stockings to fellow nurses. I even collected aluminum cans and had a small paper route. What does this have to do with the price of tea in China? I say all of this to let you know that I have put a lot of money into the system. In fact my daughter once said while looking at my check stub if she could just keep the taxes I paid she would not have to work.
Now that I am retired and living on social security, I can’t get the help I need due to all the restraints placed on me. I need a motorized scooter. Because of the bone cancer that required metal parts in my right arm to save it from being amputated, I am unable to use a regular wheelchair. My doctors say I need one, but my Medicare carrier, Kaiser, has made it cost prohibitive on my now limited budget.
The chair would cost me anywhere from $600.00 to $1800.00 dollars. This I could pay. But I would need a lift for my car and they demand I build ramps for the one step down to the kitchen and to my bedroom. Where did I go wrong? I have met others like the young lady in the market the other day. She needed a chair this I will admit, but she could not use hers which was $10,000.00 And she got it for free! Why was she not using it? She moved to an upstairs apartment.
Where is the fairness in this? Am I going to continue being a prisoner in my own house? Will stimulus money help me get what I need? Only time and God knows. But until then I will keep asking why work? Why pay all of the taxes I paid into the system for some 46 years? Because I have found that you can’t get help when you need it.
February 12th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
I tried to reply to the Pothole blog but was prevented. So I just want to say as a very fat kid (I thought at the time) I was totally wrong. It is all in the way you perceive yourself and nothing else really matters. I now realize that I am totally beautiful inside and out. I am sure you are too!