I’m reading along. I have no real plans, but man I wish I did.

I have mixed feelings about my job, but I have no exit strategy. Usually, I love the excitement of a new job, and I would like something less stressful, but this lithium is killing me (no energy, no motivation, weight gain, crossed into diabetes again). Literally. I can’t decide what to do about any of it.

I can draw my late husband’s social security as early as age 60, but it’s something like only half his benefit and I won’t be able to get Medicare yet.

Sigh.

I do feel retirement/bankruptcy is where my mother spiraled downward. I’m afraid of that.