All I can tell you is that what you described really sucks!

I don't know what happens to elderly people with no income, but I can tell you what happens to young people with no income. I am one of them and you don't want to know what my life is like. It's even worse now that I'm physically degenerating.

At least I'm in Canada, where there is some illusion of a government safety net, until some clown politician takes it away. But you're in the States, where there's nothing but your own two hands.. It's a wonderful place to live....if you're young, white, male, healthy, able-bodied and employed. If you don't fall into this specific category, you're screwed. Sorry if that sounds cold (and racist) but that's reality. I've been living it since 1993 and I can see no way out. What I said about the States, also applies to Canada, where most people don't care whether people like us live or die. And don't think about it until something nasty happens to them or they deliberately decide to look down at the filthy homeless man huddled over a heating grate in the cold of a Canadian winter. The people who deliberately look down and do something are special indeed and they are few and far between. For example, most people in my parish don't even know I exist. They will not even shake my hand when the peace of Christ is passed around. I'm a modern day leper.

I understand what you are going through only too well, my friend. I wish I had some hope to offer you, but that's for God's kingdom. In the meantime...

<<<<<<HUGS TO YOU>>>>>>>>
MY FRIEND

There is a thing more crippling than cerebral palsy: the prison of your own mind.