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Dear Fu,
One of the things seniors in Canada have going for them is the Canada Pension Plan. If you are 60+ years of age and were born here and worked for 40 years here, you can get an in on the early retirement.
Now in my case, I've led a corlorful life and I'm proud of it. I got to travel, I got to play my guitar and get well paid for it BUT I also came to realize that chasing the world class stage musically was not going to happen in the coventional manner I started out trying to reach for. So that said, I,like many others at that time, had to stop following their dream and look at real life as it was which begged the question, where in the hell do I fit in?
After all the years passed, and all the dreams had been shattered, I turned 60+ and came to realize the best thing I could do for myself was to collect my early pension.
I did so and in short, my monthly CPP pension covers all but $50 of my rent. After that, I'm in a good spot but I also have health issues. A lot of them.
Medically, my heart is doomed. In laymans terms, musically speaking of course, the top half is playing speed metal such as Racer X while the bottom half is barely getting by with swing jazz.. Eventually whats going to happen is the whole thing is just going to give out.
My Dr of Internal Medicine referred me to a Cardiac clinic only to learn that the intake clinic is not taking any new patients. Really?
Story goes that the intake nurse does all the prescreening and administers all the hoops and hurdles but her ratio of admissions to the cardiac clinic is well below what the cardiac cliinics doctors get to help. Where does that leave me? Dying I guess.
Point is a friend of mine will eventually be contacting the Fu that I'm no longer with you so let's all try to get along between now and then !
