Re: [QUAD-L] Living alone and the future

[Jkrocks]

My biggest fear is living alone and I know one day that's going to happen.  I'm still married with my two children living at home but I take my situation one day at a time.  Since my injury, I have learned a lot about my family and my friends.  I have found out that if I do not pick up the phone and make the call nobody will call me except for a couple close friends of mine.  I have family that will travel pass my house several times a month on their way to be doing something else and they never stop in and say hi even if it is for a few minutes.  I'm fortunate enough to have PCA's come into my house but that is only because I'm on a program with the state of Minnesota that provides this service as long as I am working.  I truly believe that my family and friends that I have, except for a few, are too busy with their own lives to include me in their lives because my disability.  Everybody always tells me that we need to get together and I tell them to give me a call but they never do.   Jim