Beyond At This Point.
You guys, I am ass-to-the-ground tired, but I haven't posted yet this month, so I am going to commit a cardinal sin and copy/paste some stuff from my Tumblr and from a comment section with a good friend, to explain where I have been and what has been going on.
( Some Mom-related stuff under here. )
( Some Mom-related stuff under here. )
She has Medicare and Medicaid, but they won't always cover certain meds. And they will cover rehab, but only for X amount of time and if she isn't better by then, they figure it isn't working and they stop paying. Never mind that some people take longer to heal than others.
The cost of the med she needs reminds me of what has happened with one of the AIDS meds. Maybe you've heard about it. The company that makes it has a new owner and he raised the price from a few dollars per pill to something crazy like $450 per pill. And there is no law preventing him from doing this. The prices of many meds is totally out of control in this country.
Oh yeah, I followed that whole thing real close! Because that is just a exaggerated version of what all drug companies do with life saving meds. They know we can't live without it, so they jack it up. I mean, if you need it bad enough, you'll pay any price right? Unless of course you can't pay any price and then oops, oh well, screw you.
Why did she have so much unopened mail? Does she suffer from a form of dementia, or Alzheimer's disease?
For the last year before all this began, we had been discussing with her siblings that we thought she was getting dementia. But now we realize that at least part of it was because she wasn't getting enough pumping from her very sick heart. We didn't realize she even had heart issues, let alone so bad as she did. She is still not great, slow and forgetful, but that can be explained by her general exhaustion and poor health from recovery. But the complete confusion is gone and that was from the heart. Still, I am opening all her mail from now on!
What a dreadful burden for you. I hope you can come up with a solution.
Think you. I love my mom, despite our off-kilter relationship. So at first it was just "family does for family" which we are big on in my family. But we just hit the six month mark of her fall/heart surgery and she isn't home yet, so I'm getting pretty tired of it all. And so is she!
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