Well, I was going to write about deciding to get my brother's cataracts done through the nursing home's doctor rather than his present doctor who refuses to do medicaid. His insurance will pay about 75% of the cost, but why not have medicaid pay the rest?
However, on Friday, I was very surprised to find out that I have endometrial cancer,it was totally unexpected. I'm not going to go into the details, because this blog is supposed to be about caretaking and not about me. Hopefully, I will just have to get a hysterectomy and won't need extra treatment, but it's obvious there is going to be some down time this summer. I am feeling very badly about placing the burden of taking care of my brother on my husband. We have had to do so much because of him, and the caretaking I have had to do for my parents when they were aging and dying. I am also worried about my teenage daughter's mental health, she has spent her whole teen years living through multiple, serious, health crises that we have had to deal with as a family.
I am pretty sure stress has played a role in my health, it's one of the reasons I decided to place my brother in a nursing home. Now I have to start thinking about changing job conditions.
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