Blessings to You, I don't need home care because I do my housework except for the floor care done by the handyman, who comes every second week and is very helpful. What I really may need is someone in the house to see if I fall down and can't get up. I tried one of those things one wears around the neck, and it went off twice while it was not near me, and the police came twice. Up to now I've been walking well. Today I'm having much better balance and went to church and the co-op to buy groceries, and did just fine. My eyes are also better. It's just that I'm thinking of the future without family support. My mother lived to 97 and died alone on the floor because she would not go to a "home". But I think she lived so long because she did it "her way". It's a good question whether such long life with disability is preferable--she was nearly blind with macular and could not hear well enough to let me communicate without shouting. I am so sorry she died that way...I could not even live in the same town because the 2000 forest fire had complicated entirely our living economics--just ruined our funds, basically. I offered to live with her (husband and I) and she would not have it.

Ginnie, I do read, am reading this forum. I had trouble reading it after both forest fire episodes we had in the two last Junes. Forest fire smoke really sets my vision back, but I've recovered; it may be that Lutein Eyes helps many eye problems, and I've taken it for 15 years because my parents had Macular Degeneration. I fear we will have yearly smoke seasons now that drought is the rule rather than the exception. Smoke causes my eyes to go into "seizures" for months afterwards.

((((Sally)))) hugs back to you!

And thanks to all who sent comforting words. I appreciate them VERY MUCH. Wish I knew how to put a nice stickie here.