I can remember living on oatmeal, working 2 full time jobs trying to support a baby who called all the babysitters Mommy and looked at me like I was a stranger and a good-for-nothing husband(finally got smart and booted him out of the door). I remember driving up to a gas station on empty, and digging 47 cents out of my purse for gas (it was alot cheaper then) and telling the guy to only put in 47 cents since that was all I had. He didn't watch and it went over so I yelled at him. He stopped it and told me I had to pay the extra. I had to climb all over the car to come up with the 20 something cents he went over. I got so sick one time that I was coughing up blood, lost so much weight I was down to 103 lbs( I'm 5' 7") and couldn't even keep down water. I couldn't afford to go to the Dr.'s. The sad part is my parents wanted to help me but I am a very stubborn person and wouldn'
t let them. They finally made me go to the Dr. I had bronchitus, upper respitory infection, was going into pneumonia and the flu. I did learn alot about being self sufficient and am now the Queen of fixing anything with whatever I have at hand
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