Text 12462, 84 rader
Skriven 2005-09-21 12:12:53 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
  Kommentar till text 12423 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
Ärende: Cell phone cost
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21 Sep 05 20:16, Carol Shenkenberger wrote to Roy Witt:

 CS> Doenst sound like much fun at all!

It wasn't. And although I enjoyed the attention of those pretty young
nurses, I wouldn't want to do it again.

 CS>> anyone can tell.  She's fine with the other one but has to be a bit
 CS>> careful about some food items.
 RW>> Hmmm. Wonder what that's all about.
 CS> Dunno. One just sorta stopped working but kicked back in later.

Weird.

 CS>> I'm not sure which ones but it started when I was still in my early
 CS>> teens and i dont recall much change in diet other than she reduced
 CS>> her coffee intake and took to a decaf type for most of the day.
 RW>> Ahhh, coffee. I wasn't restricted in my diet at all. Although they
 RW>> did I should cut down on coffee. Since we've moved here, the coffee
 RW>> pot ha been nearly retired. I make a pot when I get an urge for it,
 RW>> but it's a daily or even a weekly thing.

 CS> Mom was a mega-coffee person before that.

Sounds like my dad. Two pots a day. More if he could get it.

 CS> I remember it.  Probably 12 cups a day at least?  She'd have 3 cups
 CS> by 9am and the rest spread over the day til 9pm.  Got told to take to
 CS> decaff and I do not recall this bothering her all that much other
 CS> than a slight weening down for a bit where she'd get headaches if she
 CS> didnt have caffine at the start of the 'bring down' at about 3pm and
 CS> again at 8pm?

Coffee is easier to ween yourself from. I dropped my consumption from an
8 cup pot/day to two cups/day, then only on weekends. I never had a
withdrawal headache.

 CS> She shifted at the start to 1 cup at morning, one at mif afternoon,
 CS> and one at early evening.  Decaffe the rest of the time.

That's one way of doing it. Still keeps her on the caffiene though.

 CS>> (allowed with social security though I think she gets an offset in
 CS>> payments so doesnt 'make anything' doing it, except to have fun).
 RW>> She shouldn't. The law was changed a few years ago. The only time
 RW>> that have to worry about the offsets are in your first year of
 RW>> retirement benefits.

 CS> I think Mom delayed thst til she hit 72?  She didnt work all that
 CS> much in any way that counts for social security wages.  Her
 CS> ex-husband (my father) remarried and I think the second wife gets the
 CS> Social Security?

She's entitled to some of his. Whatever those married years added up to,
that'd be the determining factor.

 CS> Her time with Dad was only 6-7 years and the only divorce decree was
 CS> child support of 52$ a month for 3 kids.

He got off cheap.

 CS>  Mom 'self employed' by using her small inheritance from her parents
 CS> to get a house and fix it up, then sell for more than it cost and we
 CS> lived off the proceeds.

Hopefully she invested some of it in another house.

 CS>> and puts in a few flowers in spring for them.
 CS>>                                        xxcarol

 RW>> How sweet of her.

 CS> Yeah, thats Mom!  Gotta admit, I am probably a bit like her.  At
 CS> least, I'd like to think so!
 CS>                                        xxcarol

I'm sure you are. Narry a nasty word out of you in all the years I've
known you here. Even in the heat of battle.


Roy

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