From: gordonbreen623@hotmail.com   
      
   Hello Larry   
      
   This is an interesting statement: "I can't work"   
   I am sorry you feel this way but I don't believe you yet.   
   Several years ago I was given a form from Social Assistance   
   The form had a statement that read something like this:   
   Are you incapable of working?   
   The only way I could answer this question with a "yes" answer was to give up   
   on myself. I had what seemed at the time overwhelming health problems and   
   all forms of work I had done seemed out of my reach. I was following the   
   career of Stephen William Hawking and with all his health problems he was   
   still working, so how can I say I am incapable of working?   
      
   I know all about hell and deep wide valleys with wall so steep that one   
   would say even if I made it off the valley floor I could never get over the   
   wall. A famous singer Harry Chapin once said "Got to be the going, not the   
   getting there, that's good." He also said "So send your mind ahead and maybe   
   your body will follow."   
      
   You are alive today so tell your wife how much you still love her. Ask her   
   if you can help her with something today. Start with whatever you can do.   
   Stop worrying about the things you can't do.  Make the best of each moment.   
      
   G:]   
      
   Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing   
   losses on.   
   Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. The Poetry of Robert Frost, "The   
   Ingenuities of Debt" (1979).   
      
      
   "Larry"  wrote in message   
   news:TvFLi.804$xa2.332@read2.cgocable.net...   
   > Hey Gordon. You're right, I'm just in the valley right now. I'm basically   
   > in the same position, except i can't work, and my wife decided she wasn't   
   > in it for the bad, just the good, and decided we weren't right for each   
   > other any more...after 20 years. I've too will be homeless soon.   
   > A few years ago I had disability send me back to school so I could work,   
   > at my wife's "request"...get off disability, go to work, or get out. I   
   > worked just over 2 years, became less able, and ended up n the hospital   
   > seriously ill, requiring life saving surgery. I wasn't expected to   
   > survive, they lost me and brought me back 3 times. Now I have to go   
   > through the system again to get disability, it only took me 8 years of   
   > being shoved around the first time. Problem this time, my health is worse,   
   > I don't have support at home, and I don't have any fight left in me.   
   > So, most times the valleys are deep and wide, and much of the time I don't   
   > really care if, nor do I really want to get to the other side. Hell isn't   
   > just a place!   
   > Larry   
      
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