hizgeorgiapeach
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I hate the stress levels here at home. (Although I love the fact that the stress level is about to decrease by a couple of orders of magnitude!) Tomorrow is payday, I've got to pay all the bills, do grocery shopping, run all the normal errands for payday - but I also have to try and get dad into his doc's office to replace the orders for all his equipment (so that medicare will pay for it, rather than having to suddenly come up with a couple grand extra), get all his prescriptions rewritten (since hospice isn't going to be supplying the majority of them any longer)....... and still find time to make a couple of other fone calls concerning finding dad a nursing home. It got suggested today, when I talked to the one that he spent my February respite in, that I go ahead and have him admitted under a "pending medicare payment" status - which I've still got to find out when I talk to the intake administrator tomorrow what, exactly, that means. This place is damn near the same price as the nursing home he was in previously, and if medicare decides they aren't going to cover the cost (since he's already used up his assets paying for nursing home care previously) - then I flat out won't be able to afford the monthly payment unless I intend to start living on the street. I'm still Hoping I can find someplace that even if medicare denies it, I can still afford to pay it anyway without having serious trouble doing so. If things work out the way I WANT them to, then I'll have a nursing home arranged by the 1st, and be ready to move him in before the 15th. I'm prepared for it to take longer than that - I figure I can deal with things until December, knowing that it's coming to an end - but I Do NOT want to have to do so, and would much prefer that life actually Cooperate for a change.
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