Kitty, I can't offer any great ideas for dealing with the big stuff, but I do have one for your texting difficulty: does your phone have some kind of voice typing software? My phone came with Google voice typing loaded on it--maybe yours did too. If you have an on screen keyboard, look on the lower left between the ?123 key and the space bar for a little microphone icon. If you see the microphone, you can tap it to start voice typing.

If you don't already have it, I'm pretty sure you can download it fpr free. You can also download voice typing for your computer.

I hope this is helpful.