Ugh
Today I had to make two phone calls. That quite literally stresses me out more than anything else. In the last few months I've been working on winding up my late father's estate; I was planning to retire but then was laid off so retirement came two months early (this does not affect me financially, we're fine) and then, of course, as I'm not employed anymore and am turning 65 in May, I've had to enroll in Medicare and my husband had to enroll in both Medicare and Social Security. Of all of that, the worst part was having to talk on the phone. For most of the last twenty years I've been unable to hear people speak on the phone and trying to do so is an exercise in the most extreme frustration I've experienced - except, of course, I've experienced it over and over and over until at this point I have a loathing of talking on the phone that psychologically I cannot get past. At work, I was participating in Teams meetings extremely successfully. I had co