In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Originally posted by Brenda:
I've had a bus pass for the last 4years because I decided that I would get some use out of it and boy have I.
There is something here called the "HandyDart" and you pay for it like a bus. BUT you have to be recommended for the program by your doctor and I don't think mine is ready for me to be using that system just yet. I am still able to walk and get on and off a bus fairly easily. It just depends on how much groceries I am carrying.
My mom didn't start on that program until she was in her late 70s.
Yeah. I knew you said before that you have transportation in the city. I figured that was the bus. The HandyDart sounds like what my brother would be able to schedule.
I get how you feel about "crutches". My step-dad is telling me all the time that I should be taking Aleve for my chronic joint pain but at 38 years old I don't want to be doing that.
If getting into housing for seniors isn't a problem in the city by you and the accommodations are acceptable then it's really a non-issue. Just something to consider if there is a long waiting list or you could get a nicer place outside of the city is all.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Yeah. He can access it. It's not free, but it's actually extremely cheap considering it's too far away from big cities to have any Uber sort of service and the driver needs to be paid and the gas needs to be bought. He's got no need to use it now since my Dad is heavily involved in his life, but he's going to have to to get to the city down the road for medical procedures and such when my Dad's no longer able to do that. I'm hoping that I'll be in a better position to help out when that time comes, but it's around 4-5 hours away from me and I'm nervous driving 30 minutes to work in my current car.
My real concern for my brother is handling paperwork. He's so capable in so many things, and even a lot better at a few things than I'll ever be, but he can't do that for some reason. I hope down the road all of that can be handled online because right now some of it can't and my Dad schedules some of his trips down there to take him 30 miles into the city to sit and wait in government offices half a day to fill out necessary paperwork. I'm actually really good at all of that stuff, but if we're talking about a 10 hour round trip to get it done it's going to add a lot of stress in my life, especially if they mess something up like they always do and then I've got to do the trip a second time a few weeks later.
I get that you can't go to a senior home until you're 55. I doubt that will change. But at least it sounds like it's not like Chicago where you'd be on a waiting list for years before one opened up. It sounds like the only reason it would be beneficial in any way for you to consider moving out of the city would be the possibility that you could get a nicer place, but if that comes at the cost of transportation then it isn't worth it. I hope you get a nice place next year. At least it sounds like it will be safe though, which is the most important thing.
Keep your head up. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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"BC Housing already knows that this place is a disaster"
DAMN. So much for setting some help on that.
55. Do your best to hang in there till then, Brenda. I'm sorry I can't help, but I feel for you.
HAS IT NOT OCCURRED TO YOU BY NOW THAT IF YOU HAVE TO RESORT TO LOGICAL FALLACIES AND TROLLING YOUR SO-CALLED ARGUMENTS ARE LIES?
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Hey Brenda,
You deleted all of your posts. Would you like I should delete all of mine on the topic too since some of them quoted you?
Just say the word.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I didn't delete anything Jack. So I have no idea what happened.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Hey Brenda,
You deleted all of your posts. Would you like I should delete all of mine on the topic too since some of them quoted you?
Just say the word.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
That was some sort of accident. I don't know what I did. Can someone see if Haken can put my posts back?
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Originally posted by BRENDA:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Hey Brenda,
You deleted all of your posts. Would you like I should delete all of mine on the topic too since some of them quoted you?
Just say the word.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
That was some sort of accident. I don't know what I did. Can someone see if Haken can put my posts back?
I had the same thing happen to my account for "G" Brenda - all posts gone, poof, vanished. Sad! I asked Haken and he said my account had accidentally been tagged as Spam and he'd look into retrieving it. I just now added a note to him about yours. Fingers crossed!
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YAY! You're back!
HAS IT NOT OCCURRED TO YOU BY NOW THAT IF YOU HAVE TO RESORT TO LOGICAL FALLACIES AND TROLLING YOUR SO-CALLED ARGUMENTS ARE LIES?
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Wow, crazy. Hope it gets fixed. :)
I thought it was strange this morning that somebody replied after I had congratulated Wishy on the good news in the other thread but when I checked the thread my post was the last one even though it said it had a new post several hours later. Was it spam, or another accidental deletion?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by captaincrunch:Quote:
Originally posted by BRENDA:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Hey Brenda,
You deleted all of your posts. Would you like I should delete all of mine on the topic too since some of them quoted you?
Just say the word.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
That was some sort of accident. I don't know what I did. Can someone see if Haken can put my posts back?
I had the same thing happen to my account for "G" Brenda - all posts gone, poof, vanished. Sad! I asked Haken and he said my account had accidentally been tagged as Spam and he'd look into retrieving it. I just now added a note to him about yours. Fingers crossed!
Thanks.
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