I took Mom to the eye doctor, the same one who performed her cataract surgery, because I'm concerned about her eyesight. He said her eyes tested twenty-twenty with glasses, but she has a gradual deterioration of the arteries, and that her senility problem didn't help. I was tempted to tell him that it wasn't just senility, but her medication causes mental fogginess too, but it's better than the madwoman she used to be, but I didn't.
I also took her to the bank, so that I will know what is where, etc. The bank personnel were wonderful, and said they had many depositors like her, gave me access to her lock box. and permission to write her checks for her. She was supposed to sign her name on three documents, but could only manage to sign twice. The bank personnel recognized the problem and said that since they had seen her and knew her condition, they would accept two signatures in lieu of three. One employee told me that she admired me for taking care of her and not sticking her in a nursing home.
Now that I'm sending inquiries to the insurance companies, I should know soon how much insurance I will need on her, if she dies in the next couple of years. If I don't have some insurance, I won't be able to complete the restoration of her house, and I'm hyst beginning that project.
I went to the grocery store for myself and spent all but $5.00 of my food stamps. I don't receive anymore until the twenty-seventh of February. I gain weight the first two weeks of any given month and lose it the last two weeks of the month.
I heard on the news that in 1983, one out of every three people received some type of financial assistance, which coincides with my suspicion that the government is grossly distorting the facts, Democrats and Republicans alike. If the total Population knew the true facts, would the government have a revolt on it's hands?
I have this lump in my chest that says to me I'm extremely anxious about the future. I can't seem to shake the 'doom and gloom' attitude, nor get rid of the lump in my chest.
I should get my unemployment check tomorrow, and I'm in dire need of it.
When I moved here, my gas and electric bell was one-fifty of my house payment, but now it is the same as the house payment.
