Daily Log 01/28/2009

Pain was about the same today as yesterday. No real change.

More bad news. We found out today that if mom moves in with me or to Pinal County in general, then she loses her medical coverage through Mercy Care. This means no wound care, hospital bed, nurse, or care giver. The can request that Pinal County take her on but, it could take a month to month and a half which, means no coverage until then. There are two alternatives. One is to move her in and try our hardest to take good care of her without any medical services in which case, Pinal County would be forced to take her. We still have to go without services for a while. Two would be to put her in a nursing home temporarily and request that Pinal County take her. Two problems with this option. 1. My mom would rather die than be put in a home even temporarily. 2. Pinal County could say that they won't take her at all.

It's going to be insanely hard but, we chose option 1. Kat has an old Full Pillow top mattress set that we are going to use temporarily and we are just going to do the best we can to take care of her without medical services. If anyone has a bed frame for a full size mattress that we can borrow, I would be very appreciative.

God willing, mom will be okay until we can get new medical services started up.