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Dear friends, Due to insufficient funds for state-paid caregivers, and also to my social security income being limited and fixed, I am without both an overnight and a Sunday daytime caregiver for the first time in three years. Maine only allows $6.25 / hour. I am advertising for a full-time, live-in caretaker, in order to function without anxiety. The cold weather has begun. I quickly lose heat and become painfully stiffened up whenever any dose is wearing off.. So, for the moment, I am in distress, and spending very trying nights alone with my pet cat, Winnie. Until the situation is resolved, I will have very little time to spare. I have appealed to the network of APDA-sponsored support groups in Maine, and my dilemma has reached the APDA in New York for consideration. My house is specially adapted and built for the needs of Parkinson's people, so I dare not go elsewhere--and really do not have any options that make better sense. People who talk to me about nursing homes and "assisted living" are not seeing my house as a better option--oh, well! Thanks for listening, Ivan ^^^^^^WARM GREETINGS FROM^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Ivan Suzman 48/12/9.5 [log in to unmask] Portland, Maine Land of lighthouses 34 deg. F ********************************************************************