Melodyredi's Blog

Do you have a minute?
I just want to vent a little.
I have two dear friends who lost their husbands last year. One at the age of 50 suddenly fell to his death in a Walgreen's Drug Store in the middle of the night looking for an antacid.
The other wasn't feeling well and went to the doctor, after a few tests, he was told sorry fellow you have cancer and maybe six months to live, he died in five months at age 59.
Here is the really sad part to this story, they left these two beautiful middle aged women without any life insurance, savings or plan of action in case of death.
One of the women has a home she must sell to survive, before she looses it,
she also needs to start some kind of career to support herself at the age of 54
(she was a stay at home mom and wife). The other does not have a home her husband had started his own business three years prior to his death and used up every dime they had to make it work. If he had just a little more time the business was just about to pay off. She was left with a huge 32,000. 00 tax bill for the business and she had no income. Now don't be hard on these guys each one was working hard trying to make a living for his family. Each one had difficult situations that caused them to make changes in their later years to survive.Like a company that went under, their went his job, he had to use his life insurance to make ends meet before he was able to find a new job. Not easy to find when you are in your middle 50s.
Well my friends are surviving, one just got her Real Estate License, the other is working hard on her typing skills to try and get a dispatch job for 911.
I thank God for their many friends and their faith, that is their lifeline.

Bottom line, I just wish our country had some kind of help and support for middle aged women who have to start a new life while grieving and trying to keep their head above water.
Instead the State wants 32,000.00 in monthly payments from a widow who doesn't even have an income yet. Etc Etc

Sincerely,
Melodyredi