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I sent flowers to the nursing home to my aunt and my mother, who room together. My mother, oddly enough, has bounced back and seems to be doing much better since she got her feeding tube. She eats a little; but I think having her diet supplemented with the feeding tube has really helped her. Physically, she can do nothing; but her mental facilities are better than they have been since before her knee surgery, which almost did her in. Mother is now 87.
It is my aunt, who is 85, who has gone downhill the quicker of the two. She has had a couple of strokes and it is really hard to understand what she says; she's awfully weak as well. I just fear the loss of her son could be too much for her. She has not been told that he committed suicide--only that he passed away. We all agreed that neither she nor Mother could handle that.
The nursing home is taking both of them to the service by medevac and will have a representative there with them. This facility where they stay is so good.Â
When my other brother was also ill with cancer, the nursing home staff voluntarily arranged to have my mother fly to Houston to see him; a person from the facility went with her; they spent two days and Mother was able to spend a full day with him.  It was the last time she saw him before he passed away. Social Services paid for their airline tickets, their hotel room, had a medevac to meet them at the airport; and covered all meals and gratuities.
Social Services also paid for my surviving brother to have a place to stay where he got his meals when he went through chemo. This place took him for treatments if he did not feel well enough to drive on any given day.  Since he had no insurance, we were able to get him care at Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, where his bill was also covered by social services.
The very last place we should cut benefits is to programs such as these. Let's cut the military budget that gobbles over half the taxes we pay each year, get out of Afghanistan and quit trying to police the world. It's impossible anyway. We can't change people's cultural thinking.
And, for heaven's sake, let's NOT fight to eliminate Obamacare if the Supreme Court doesn't strike it down. And if they vote strictly party lines, they will, as the Republicans hold a 5-4 edge. We already know that Scolia and Thomas are in the Tea Party's back pocket...they have both attended secret meetings with the Koch brothers that have been documented in the press.
It never would have come to this without the Republicans trying their best to find a way to discredit Obama.  His plan will solve many of the problems I have just discussed. My brother did not have insurance because he had a pre-existing medical condition.Â
With Obama's health care plan, he could have bought coverage. What people who are griping do not understand is that the requirement that everyone carry insurance or pay a penalty is the ONLY way that insurance companies would agree to insure people with pre-existing conditions and not raise premiums.
Which would these people rather have...insurance that will cover their pre-existing conditions or no insurance AT ALL? For many, that is what they face.
And Republicans want to eliminate all social services or seriously cut their funds.  Gawd, I hate those people. They sit up there in their Ivory Tower, making decisions on matters that they know nothing about. Social Services extends people's lives every day, pays for 99 per cent of the care for our Senior citizens as well as providing assistance for families in times of crisis.
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