December 28, 2005

  • Today:
    Woke up at 8, ate breakfast.  Made an appointment to take my mother to the doctor. Went to the gym for 15 minutes stretched and walked.  Went home.

    9:30  Began clearing desk.  Filled out Social Security info for my mom.  Someone in the paper making industry paid someone to change all medicare/medicaid rules so that tons and tons of papers would be sent to people.  "Lets kill a tree today." That should be the new slogan of the Social Services Administration.  It sucks and it leaves me with tons of CRAP to read through. 
    10:20 Desk is looking better.  Now filling out forms to reinstate my little brothers insurance for another year.
    10:50  Filling out more insurance papers for my mother.  These benefits are for people with low income and people with disabilities.  If my mother had no family, she'd be incapable of doing this paper work b/c she is legally blind and can not see to read.  What's the deal with all the paper that makes NO SENSE!  I'm very frustrated right now.  Ugh.  I have to get ready to take her to the doctor. 

    11:15 Leave for post office and doctor.  This will take a good chunk out of my day because most doctors don't accept medicaid and since she's disabled she receives both medicaid and medicare, but she can not use her medicare insurance which would give her a larger range of doctors.  She must use her medicaid benefits to see a doctor.  Which leaves me with VERY FEW choices of doctors for her.  I now have a 1/2 hour drive to the doctor and 1/2 hour back.  Let me ask, how is a disabled woman, who can't drive, supposed to get to a doctor 1/2 hour car ride away?  I could send her on medical transport, but last time I did that she had to wait an hour after her appointment for her ride back home.  Of course she called me at work to cry and yell at me that day, because all this is my fault.  But smile life is good and the desk is almost clear. 

    1:00 Got home, made a card for the mailman, put my dunkin donuts gift certificates in it.    So sad to see those go, but I had no money to put in...  Ate lunch.

    1:30  Getting back to work on the desk.  Making some phone calls to stupid people. 

    2:00 going to drop off prescription at the pharmacy, run a few errands and then pick it up. 

    3:00  I'm so stressed.  I'm going to go drink hot chocolate and do nothing for a while.