Since I'm getting older, have health issues and live alone, my best friend and I talk on the phone every night almost. Nights when we don't talk (she has lots of evening activities from her job and social obligations), I leave her a message that I'm still alive and kicking. If she didn't hear from me for a couple of days, she would call my family and probably authorities to check on me if she couldn't reach me herself. That gives me security knowing I won't be lying on the floor for two weeks while I die from lack of food and water and that my kitties will be taken care of. Actually, I instituted this procedure because of my fear that my kitties would be left alone with no food or water. I leave food out for them all the time so they could go a couple of days easily.

But anyway, I have live human contact almost every day. Plus elder care comes in once a week to assist me with things that my disability prevents me from doing.

So I'm cool. I'm also a loner, have always been. When Fox lived here for almost three years while seeking employment, I almost begged him to go out for a few hours so I could have some alone time. I do not do well with someone around all the time. I'd probably have buried a husband in the back yard by now just to get away from him were I still married. :-)