Friday 10/30/09
the "mom" report:

The good news is that Mike is doing well. The bad news is that he is nearing his 1,000,000 insurance payout. So he will stay in the hospital one more day then he's kicked out. He is too well to go to Promise. Bette says he will probably go to the guest house with her and she gets to do his wound care. It's a good thing that she has learned and done so much wound care on him already. Their houses are not done yet in Pocatello. The other option is to send Mike to the homeless shelter in a medical bed.

Okay, the only way I can comment is this: (please cover your sensitive eyes or skip to the end of this whole paragraph....I will lessen the impact by using "texting" abbreviations...now this is an editorial comment) OMG WTF!!! So basically Mike is out of money so they are kicking him to the curb. This is not right. Every day I see people in the Emergency Room who are on "disability" for who knows what and they seem perfectly physically capable except for the laziness factor and, possibly for a lack of the proper number of brain cells, and my dear brother can't stay in a facility to learn how to wipe his own backside and they are saying he's not "qualified" for disability???? Either the case worker is lame or they haven't been a good advocate for pushing the paperwork through for a Medical Card for Mike. I guess I didn't have an issue when I was hospitalized for a month with pneumonia. Since I wasn't working and didn't have any money, the hospital forgave the whole lot. (mind you, the doctors all wanted to be paid so I told them I could pay $10-25 per month for the rest of my life....) I am very put out about the whole deal about Mike. End of editorial comment. Feel free to embellish a bit more for how I really feel about it!

Anyway, if any of you have a great suggestion or brainstorm about what Bette and Mike can do please comment on the post or email me: jclochridge@cox.net

More later,
and so we go
JaCee