As an LPN who's now 60 and been doing mostly longterm care for most of the last 30 years, I find my body wearing out. Well, my tolerance for the intense pressure and stressful, and overworked conditions wore out a long time ago.However, I perservered, having developed a taste for shelter, food, electricty and all those other pesky little necessities of life:nono:
Isn't it amazing how programmed we become to keep pushing ourselves with a back full of spinal stenosis, scoliosis, bulging disks, arthrtic feet, and now degenerative joint disease of the hands and wrists, and yet, doggedly I continued to care for others. (ironically, probably in better shape than I'm in).lol When my doctor said I couldn't use my right hand and put it in a splint, I thought Hmm, how can I continue faking an able bodied person??duh! and then all of a sudden bling a lightbulb moment... could it be, that my turn had come to take care of myself... Whan an odd idea...:smackingf so now, with one working foot, a wrecked back, and 2 trashed wrists I'm going to try for disability......wish me luck folks. Its been a long painful 30 yrs.:balloons: thanks..Twilite
a lightbulb moment... could it be, that my turn had come to take care of myself... Whan an odd idea...:smackingf so now, with one working foot, a wrecked back, and 2 trashed wrists I'm going to try for disability......wish me luck folks. Its been a long painful 30 yrs.:balloons: thanks..Twilite