They Treated Me Like I Didn’t Belong Until the Seal on the Car Door Changed Everything – The Archivist

Someone muttered something about the burdens of elder care.

I didn’t correct him. There was no point explaining that I paid for my own prescriptions, that Medicare and my supplemental coverage handled everything else. It didn’t fit the story they’d all agreed to believe.

I might have swallowed it — I’d swallowed a hundred small cuts over three years continue reading …