Help At Home girl needs to clean more but my father won't let her. I made the call to her boss to discuss this and the worker convinced my dad to let her clean some, but there needs to be more intense cleaning not just surface cleaning. This girl that helps him has been a long time friend of his and he just wants to go run around town in her car and blow his Social Security check. Supposedly this girl, her boss and I got on the same page about what needs to be done for my father. My father is our neighbor and when he's gone with her I sneak into his little cabin to investigate and I am not pleased with what I'm seeing. He has been living back at home since early June after leaving AL... YES, he should have stayed there but it was out of my control since he's still "competent". I have silently refused to step in and help with cleaning, grocery shopping etc. since this girl is hired to help him, she can do it. I do dispense his meds which he is choosing to skip all of the time. I only interact with my dad when my husband is with me. After years of dysfunction with him and then later in life trying to build a relationship with someone who is somewhat narcissistic perhaps and a great manipulator, he uses his own emotions to try to throw me in a guilt trip which used to lead me into a path of sympathy and compassion. These last two months I've realized I have been his enabler as far as getting him anything and everything that he wants for the past year. I've come a great way of letting go of wanting to try to change him to "my" idea of how he should take care of himself and how he has chosen to live.
Now with him back home on our family property, living in a little cabin my husband built for him after we had to destroy his bedbug infested dilapidated trailer, I have stepped back and let his life continue the way it was before he had the stroke last July. At that time he was partially surviving with the bedbugs for six months at least along with mouse turds and P on everything. We paid for extermination but it was not a success because the trailer was in such bad condition it just escalated to a terrible demise, the stroke got him out of there into the hospital and destruction began. I got POA... into assisted living he went... got kinda better... holding of the cabin was in slow motion to try to keep him in assisted-living... 9 months later cabin got finished and home again home again jiggedy-jiggedy he went. Sooo, after all that, my question is here, how do I get this girl to clean his damn cabin to the perfection that I believe it should be in or do I let it turn into another stench???? The cabin is considered his even though we paid for everything entirely ourselves out of guilt of destroying his trailer and most of the contents. Do I just sit back and watch this all happen again just like I did with the bedbugs were around? I mean years before that I kept my distance from him and let him do his own thing because that's what he wanted and it turned into a big bad mess. Sometimes I can think clearly what I need to do about this and I just don't know I'm so messed up. I can't talk to my dad about this and his uncleanliness. It's getting so unsanitary in the cabin someone please tell me what to do.
Husbandrecently had his property surveyed off into two tracks, 5 acres for him and 35 for us. From what I'm learning here today it does not sound like that was the thing to do or a very right decision at all
We do have a lawyer and he's the one that came up with this plan and I doubted it from the very beginning !!!
Yes I could've went to Walmart last night to get it or went there this morning but I'm refusing to take part in this junk anymore
He owes assisted-living $21,000 since he was Medicaid pending and had carotid artery surgery last September. Those bills were over $100,000 but supposedly covered by Medicaidat the times. Come to find out my dad did not report his property back in 2009 which has thrown up 1 million red flags and now they're asking 1 million questions and years of bank statements. It's been awful and time-consuming and my dad does not give a crap that we have to do all this paperwork for him. My husband says although we paid for the cabin my dad has to purchase it from us ( which husband says the value of the cabin will come off of the value of the property) and then he turns around and gives it back to Medicaid, this just boggles my mind because that doesn't even make sense to me. Too much juggling around of stuff for my mind to handle. Medicaid does deserve their money because theyve been paying his medical bills, he gets cheaper prescriptions and Help At Home care for all these years. Now that he's back home he cashes his Social Security check of $634 every month and spends it however he wants on stupid stuff. He bought a used Bose radio from his Help At Home girl for $100 and she recently put him on her cell phone plan...we bought him a cell phone years ago and has been paying his way on that the whole time till like a month ago...she convinced him to get on her plan which was supposedly cheaper and to have phone that he can "handle". I am very happy to not be paying his minutes anymore but how can this be cheaper for him if he is going to have a cell phone bill with her for $30 a month !?! Is paying his utility bills
Crazy !!
We've lived in our home for 30 years, this is where I grew up and wanted to be even though of my dysfunctional divorced dad. Husband and kids and soon-to-be granddaughter are attached to this place but I don't care anymore I want to let it all go I really don't care. I'm tired of working it so he doesn't see his property get auctioned away or sold or completely gone to the government. We are not trying to hide anything from the government and are willing to pay the fair market value. I never understood the whole concept of this contract deal to pay him monthly to supplement his Social Security check.
It never made sense to me because he's on Medicaid I don't get it!!!
Right now Medicaid has been picking up the bill for Help At Home but I'm assuming that's going to stop September 1. The secretary at the assisted living where he was told me he's only covered until September 1 and then he will probably need to buy a supplement insurance to his Medicare
Lower your standards. A whole lot. I care for my folks long distance. I'm visiting now. Couple years ago I'd have big fights because they won't let me get any help, cleaning etc in the house.
So after fighting I'd run around like an idiot cleaning my self to death. I don't argue or clean anymore. Everyone is much happier, less stressed.
I still do the basic stuff, dishes, laundry, vacuum, gather up trash and junk. But windows, mopping, dusting, deep cleaning, no more.
If they don't care that the windows are filthy why should I.
I'm a 62 year old guy. My standards are not that high to begin with but I try to at least keep their place up to basic animal house standards. I make sure the rotten food goes out, bad smells are tracked down, just basic stuff.
You have to find that balance of keeping basic hygiene and safety with old stubborn folks. Dust bunnies? Who cares....