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should I stay or should I go now

Sat, 02/26/2011 - 21:44

To give you a little back round on me. I started having epilepsy atthe age of13.  I really do anything with my live after finding out I had epilepsy. I diden't even really follow through whit what my doctors said to do.

Now I am 30 and live at home or with famley my whole life. When I was 25 I had set out to move out on my own. My reason was I diden't want to wake up one day to find my mom dead. Now 5 years later things have changed my mom and one or her sisters had moved to Florida and I stayed in PA.  The reason I dident move with her is I have allot of famley in PA so when I was to move out on my own there would be some one around to help if I needed to go to the store or things like that. As I keep going over and over it in my head and every once and a while my mom will say there is this place down the road from me thar is 110$ a week thats every thing even cable.

Now hears where I am stuck. If I live in Pa ya I will have allot of famley that will help but. But in the summer 1/2 of my fmley moves up a camp ground for the summer. This camp ground is like an hour and a half from where I would be wanting to live in PA. ( Ya I could go to the camp but not for long peroids of time) so in the summer I woulnt have as many people to help me out. plus between work and play the other half will not be around that much to help out they are younger around 18 to 30.

Now if I moved to florida I never have to worry about snow, huge hills, But the only famley I have there are my mom and aunt. Now they still want to come up to camp for few months when its summer in PA when  my whole famley is there but my mother and aunt say that if I moved to Florida and then wanted to come up to camp in the summer I have to  pay them rent. Which I couldent. Because The place in Florida is a week to week place.  So I would have to pay my rent  for my apparment so i wouldent loose my week to week place and pay them at the camp which would be to much and I aske them if i really haf to pay rent and they said yes.

So I really have been thinking and it goes like this.  If i stay in Pa there will be barly any famley in the summer to help out because they will be 1/2 of them will  up at camp. I can still go up to camp just not for weeks.  then when camps over my mom will go to Floida an every one will come back from camp.. 

IF i were move to florida I would be ststes away from ((ALL)) my famley for 3 to 4 months all alone. But the up side i have my mom around allot she will alsways as long as she is able to take me to get me food or meds, And I heard that new hospital for epilepsy opened in florida  

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