Words are inadequate

if all he's got from polio is a limp he is *extremely* lucky. my fiance's mom didn't have any difficulty from polio itself, but now she has post-polio syndrome, which is giving her osteoporosis and a depressed immune system, among other things. she's in desperate need of a hip replacement (all the cartilage is gone, so she chips bone when she moves) which she can't have right now because she's about to get chemo for breast cancer.

she can't stand for any amount of time because of the post-polio effects, so she can't work, so she's on welfare. she has medicaid so all her medical bills are covered, but she still has to *get* to the hospital somehow, and she can't afford a car that doesn't break down every other week (and also can't afford to have her car break down every other week), and even with being in subsudized housing, that only leaves her $400 a month to pay for everything else.

and she's stark's mom, so he can't talk to her about any of this without panicking (and she can't talk to him for more than five minutes at a time without laying down the guilt trip), so that means that when she calls him, i end up being the one who talks to her.


... that was more TMI than i was intending, sorry.