mom2caseyafrica
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So we have been in the hospital with casey for the last few days with no real idea of what is going on or when we are going to be able to take her home, and somehow thats not the worst of it these days. Somehow my aunt(whom we currently live with) finds a way to make life worse, to make it seem like she is working so hard, and everything is so hard on her.
My husband and I have no money. I make 560 a month and she asks for 380 for rent plus money from my food stamps. This month i was only able to give her 200 dollars cash. I put at least 300 dollars worth of food into her house and barely had enough left to last the three of us the rest of the month. Yesterday she wanted to take my food stamps card and buy usfood to keep here in the hospital to eat. When she left she called and asked if it was ok to us some of the food stamps to go towards rent and the money she has given us the last 2 days to eat. i asked her to at least leave 75 dollars on the card. That gave her a little over 100 dollars to spend for everything we all needed. She left me 51 dollars on the card, and bought us crap to keep here at the hospital. And to top it all off she went behind my back and asked my dad for 2 or 3 hundred dollars to cover the 180 that i was behind on rent! and still made me feel like I owe her more!!! Plus at the end of this month my husband is supposed to be leaving her house. She says he causes her too much sress, Understandable. He has add, he is stressful. but sh ehas add and depression. She is even more stressful. She yells at everybody. All the time. She is cruel when she wants to be. She says things like my husband isnt worth a bag of potatoes and i should leave him. She makes her girls dig through filthy garbage for a coupon. I cant stand living with her anymore. She even makes this hospital stay all about her. Yes she was helpful in telling me how to get the doctors to really pay attention. But she hasnt done anything but drive to and from the hospital twice and take care of her own family by herself. I do that on a regular basis.
My sister asked me yesterday how i survive on very little sleep. I told her I dont get much sleep(even at home) and I always have headaches. Life is just a little too frustrating these days. I know everyone is having a hard time these days with the economy the ways it is, but isnt it enough that my daughter has cystic fibrosis and is in the hospital with god knows what? do i really have to deal with the crappy economy on my own? Isnt there anyone out there that will stick to their word when they say "is there anything i can do to help??" because there are alot of ways we can be helped right now. My aunt sat there and watched me say i have towork this week to pay my bills. and didnt say anything. My own parents didnt offer any solution besides calling my car insurance company and letting them know that i would be late on my payment.If i work this week i will get 140 dollars. over half of that will go to gas. it wouldnt be worth it. but how else am i supposed to pay my insurance? Shouldnt i be focusing on the baby in the hospital bed next to me? How am i supposed to do that when all of this other crap is going on?
Sorry for the extremely long vent.
My husband and I have no money. I make 560 a month and she asks for 380 for rent plus money from my food stamps. This month i was only able to give her 200 dollars cash. I put at least 300 dollars worth of food into her house and barely had enough left to last the three of us the rest of the month. Yesterday she wanted to take my food stamps card and buy usfood to keep here in the hospital to eat. When she left she called and asked if it was ok to us some of the food stamps to go towards rent and the money she has given us the last 2 days to eat. i asked her to at least leave 75 dollars on the card. That gave her a little over 100 dollars to spend for everything we all needed. She left me 51 dollars on the card, and bought us crap to keep here at the hospital. And to top it all off she went behind my back and asked my dad for 2 or 3 hundred dollars to cover the 180 that i was behind on rent! and still made me feel like I owe her more!!! Plus at the end of this month my husband is supposed to be leaving her house. She says he causes her too much sress, Understandable. He has add, he is stressful. but sh ehas add and depression. She is even more stressful. She yells at everybody. All the time. She is cruel when she wants to be. She says things like my husband isnt worth a bag of potatoes and i should leave him. She makes her girls dig through filthy garbage for a coupon. I cant stand living with her anymore. She even makes this hospital stay all about her. Yes she was helpful in telling me how to get the doctors to really pay attention. But she hasnt done anything but drive to and from the hospital twice and take care of her own family by herself. I do that on a regular basis.
My sister asked me yesterday how i survive on very little sleep. I told her I dont get much sleep(even at home) and I always have headaches. Life is just a little too frustrating these days. I know everyone is having a hard time these days with the economy the ways it is, but isnt it enough that my daughter has cystic fibrosis and is in the hospital with god knows what? do i really have to deal with the crappy economy on my own? Isnt there anyone out there that will stick to their word when they say "is there anything i can do to help??" because there are alot of ways we can be helped right now. My aunt sat there and watched me say i have towork this week to pay my bills. and didnt say anything. My own parents didnt offer any solution besides calling my car insurance company and letting them know that i would be late on my payment.If i work this week i will get 140 dollars. over half of that will go to gas. it wouldnt be worth it. but how else am i supposed to pay my insurance? Shouldnt i be focusing on the baby in the hospital bed next to me? How am i supposed to do that when all of this other crap is going on?
Sorry for the extremely long vent.