Wife of 23 years and mom to 3 wonderful kids... feeling a little out of my element here in the South, but trying to live by the 'bloom where you're planted' motto.
YES, her Dr. (awesome guy!!!) will sign off on her disability paperwork.
YES, she is on permanent medical leave from Crawlmart (without getting paid, though). YES, she got a new script to try to help w/ her tremors.
Dr. explained that the average time for disability payments to kick in is 2-5 YEARS and that is after it has been denied 3 or 4 times!!!!!!!!!!!! What exactly is she supposed to do for that long w/ no income? Some of the red tape in this country is unfathomable!?! The Dr. suggested getting a disability attorney, but even that may take time and who knows if they’ll even take her case (I’ll call them, regardless.)
-Still terribly shaky – tremors are out of control… hard to say which is worse, her tremors or her depression (she's maxed out on her depressions meds).
-She spent Xmas all alone in her little rat trap of a house (harsh, but true) not because we didn’t offer to have her here, she just didn’t want to “interfere” with our day??!!
-Continues to live in the sickest, most disgusting squalor you can fathom… bugs are back w/ a vengeance this time, scum landlord won’t do a damn thing for her. She didn't have water for one entire week during our recent freeze.
-Turned down for food stamps – apparently one needs to make less than $10/yr!?!
-Turned down for Medicaid???
-Continues with no health insurance yet needs extensive medical care
-I found her daughter on FB, but she is unwilling/unable to help her out in any way?!
-Her regular Dr. (a saint, which will see her for $40/visit) referred her to a neurologist & a MRI. I took her to the Neurologist yesterday and he fortunately told her she doesn’t have MS, but because her current tremor meds give her terrible, staggering side effects, he has “no idea” what to do w/ her and is pawning her off on Emory for trial tests… in my novice opinion, Emory = MONEY! Money that she doesn’t have.
-Walmart insisted she take a medical leave of absence, but until there is a diagnosis from the Emory Dr, no one will officially declare her disabled, so she had Z E R O income. Walmart won’t let her come back ‘til there is a release and she can’t get the release NOR the ‘disabled’ label ‘til she goes to Emory.
-When home, which she is full-time now, she sits within the 4 walls of her “house” with ABSOULTELY nothing to entertain herself with. No TV, no radio, no music, NOTHING. IF you know of someone who could hook something up for her (Tony has tried already and couldn’t), please let me know.
-2 mos. late on car pymnt - probably just a matter of time 'til it gets repossessed.
-Please pray for God to work miracles in her life.
Apparently Santa didn't think I was taking nearly enough pictures w/ my ol' point n' shoot camera, (or perhaps quality was the issue) so he generously presented
me with a receipt that one of these was coming my way:
Additionally, he must have thought that my little girlies were being shorted on the amount of footage we have of them vs. the volumes that we have of Xian and again, generously had this wrapped up for me:
AND YOU THOUGHT YOU SAW A LOT OF MY KIDS BEFORE..... !
We had an enjoyable Xmas this year! We're so very blessed! I say that first and foremost as to not sound ingracious when I say that I was terribly lonely this year... YES, I'm so happy that T is back. YES, I'm so blessed to have healthy children! But, I was nonetheless a little melancholy that we were alone. My memories take me back to SD with a houseful of people. I can't help it.
**roll over bottom of slide show to stop it & see caption**
My cousin and his lovely wife from SD were in town last week to welcome their new baby into the world. They named this precious babe Georgia.... quite a miracle child. She came to them via a surrogate. My Lily LOVED giving her a bottle and just taking her all in!
We wish this new family of THREE the very best that life can offer.
We witness a miracle every time a child enters into life.
But those who make their journey home across time & miles,
growing within the hearts of those who wait to love them,
are carried on the wings of destiny and placed among us
by God's very own hands.
--- Kristi Larson
