Fed-up cop says "enough" - tired of seeing starving, poor, struggling elderly

[SemperEadem]

49. I"m in the same situation at 52

my nearest relative is a 3 hour flight away...and last minute plane tickets are prohibitively expensive. The rest of my family is on the west coast--a 4 1/2 hour more expensive plane ticket away. I need to get a procedure done, but I've put it off for over a year because I have no one to drive me home and take care of me.

I recently took a really bad fall in my kitchen--slipped on some water on the floor. I thought I broke my hip. I didn't but I really messed up my elbows and knees, twisted my shoulder and bumped my head. I could not move for 5 minutes and my phone was nowhere near me. I cried like a 2 yr old while on the floor--I could so relate in that moment. Eventually I was able to get up, but what if I had broken my hip? How long would I have been unable to move? Sure, my phone would have rung, but it was in the car at the time, as I was getting ready to go to work when this happened. Living on one's own can be a dangerous enterprise when one does not have a support network in place.