Friday, February 18, 2011

Why I cannot fulfill these items myself?

You may wonder why I am unable to fulfill even the smallest of the items on the list. We live in Las Vegas. My husband worked in construction and has been unemployed for almost two years, since August 2009. We lost our home to foreclosure and live with my father, who has dementia. We help take care of him. We also took care of my mother from August 2009 to March 2010, when she died. I was working part-time doing customer service phone calls, but with the esophageal cancer, I am just too tired and too depressed to work, plus the doctor appointments - so many of them - conflict with any type of work schedule. So, we were surviving on unemployment alone - using it to pay for a car payment, car insurance, splitting utilities and rent with my dad, groceries, our Cobra payment so I have medical, and many, many co-pays for the medical. We are lucky to afford a night out for dinner. My husband's unemployment runs out in May 2011. He found part-time, on-call work just recently. That was after 340 job applications that resulted in only four interviews. Las Vegas casinos want to hire the young and pretty, not the older more experienced workers. They want girls in bikinis serving expensive bottles of wine around the pool, and not my 36 year old husband. But luckily, we found at least part-time work for him. I have a few dying wishes. Just a few and they are not very expensive. I hope I'll be able to squeeze a few of them in before I die. I've been given 2-4 months to live, possibly 6 months if I'm a real fighter and the tumor does not completely block my throat too quickly. If I am an acceptable candidate for surgery, and if the surgery goes well, and of the recovery from the surgery goes well, and if there ar eno complications from the surgery - I may get a little extension of one year. Maybe you can help me fulfill a wish or two?

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