My wife came home from the hospital on Wednesday afternoon. The diagnosis for her is COPD  (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). The cause being from all the years she smoked. She now needs oxygen treatment, for how long we don’t know yet, but I think it will be for the rest of her life. So now there is no more smoking in the house or around her. Also other strong odors will affect her breathing, so no more perfumed or scented stuff can be used by or around her. Cleaning and laundry supplies are going to be a problem, most of them have strong perfumed scents add. Oh well, I’ll find a solution for that problem. It is just good to have her home and by my side again!

My wife is in the hospital. She had an appointment at 10:00 am with our family doctor on Monday. When we got there her oxygen level was very low and the doctor heard fluid in her lungs, or around her heart.. They had her taken right from there, by ambulance, to the hospital emergence center. She was finally put into a room at 3:15 pm, and will be going through testing on Tuesday to find out what is wrong with her. I don’t know anything more than she is very sick at this time, and will hope and pray that she will be well soon.

Here is something I can thank Obama Care for! I found out that I can’t work no more than 28 hours a week. That is just over 3 days a week by 4 hours! I used to be able to work 4 days a week with out have to worry about having to take the company health insurance. As of this January this has become company policy that part time employees can only work 28 hours a week. If you work more than that you have to be put on the company's health insurance, no exceptions! So I can no longer work extra nights without causing problems with my heath insurance coverage! I have my own health care insurance, but I would have to take what the companies offers as my primary coverage, which is not as good as what I already have. It also keeps the heath insurance cost down for the company if they don’t have to cover all of their part time employees. The down-side is, that all part time employees that don’t have health insurance, will have to pay the “tax” (fine) for not having health insurance! The only good thing about this, for me, is not having to work all those extra hours anymore. The bad side is the pay checks suck! With paying higher taxes, starting this year, my take-home pay is a whole lot less! The poor are getting poorer, while the rich keep getting richer! Thank you Obama!!!

I know I have not been online for some time. My life has gone crazy. Between work, doctors and finances things haven’t been going well for us. My wife’s health is not real good, so I have been spending more time helping her around the house. So I made a choice on what time I have to do postings, which is not going to be much. This month we have many doctor appointments and at work I’ve been putting in extra hours, again. In fact I have been working extra hours starting with last October. This year I found out that we are going to have three inventory weeks. We just finished one and will have one in June and another one in October. I can’t say much about what is going on at work publicly, what I can say is that I am having some problems there right now. At home I spend most of my time taking care of my wife. My sister and stepdaughter both work day shifts, and I work night shift. So, I try to keep an ear open during the day listening for my wife. Sleeping has become something that I do in catnaps. A few hours here, a few hours there. On my nights off I try sleeping when my wife sleeps. But I only half sleep then! I found out that our car will need some major work done. A head gasket, at a cost of about $1300.00. So I got out my bicycle, and when the weather gets better, I will be using that to go to work. The wife does not like that idea! So any long trips with the car are out of the question, for now. Not sure when I will get the money saved to get the car fixed, with all of our doctor bills and other financial setbacks. House needs a new roof and we can’t get a loan to fix it until we fix the roof, Catch 22! Fixing the house is more important than fixing the car!
So you see, My Life is becoming a downer, and I don’t want to post about that! We all have our own problems, and you really don’t need me adding mine on to yours. My friends here can’t help and I would never ask that of you! So why should I burden you with them?
I just did this posting to let you all know that I’m Still Alive!