Thanks, guys. I don't know if I posted this in here or elseware but in a nutshell this was my past year or so and why I wasn't around much.

a backache in the spring got so bad I was bedridden by summer. I lost muscle mass and 70 lbs, My hair fell out. Had home physical therapy and therapist told me I had to get up NOW or I would never get up again. So I had to learn how to sit up for 2 hours at a time , then walk with walker. Then walk with two canes. Then one. All that took 11 months.

Meanwhile at the same time, my (estranged) step-daughter Kathy went rouge with her Power of Attorney powers. We fought and stopped communicating. She looted my bank account. Left me in poverty, tried to take my house, my paintings, and books but failed. I had to sell belongings. Since she left me impoverished the govt. decided that I needed support from my husband's pension and social security check. And now Kathy must write ME a support check every month.

That's it. And here we are. That's where I am in life now, poor, left with nothing, no husband, no dogs, no life as I remember it just a few months ago, But for now I am still standing.