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Too much paperwork. Its overwhelming.
Caregivers | Last Active: Mar 22, 2019 | Replies (16)Comment receiving replies
Dearest @ihatediabetes , can I ever identify with you. I wish you and I lived down the street from each other. We could crank up some music, put the kettle on, and enjoy a hot cuppa before we tackle the mountains of paperwork.
I have calendars and planners, baskets and folding files, binders and desks. All in an attempt at some semblance of order and peace. We homeschool our little Einstein, and we love it. But there is so, so much paperwork. And it all has to be done in a timely manner. I have had two foot surgeries this summer and it is rather difficult to navigate through every single VERY imporatant piece of paper.
It didn't help matters that I had to print out the forms for admission and registration. Well, somebody, we won't say who, dragged their feet and waited until the last possible moment to purchase the ink. After signing about fifty sheets of paper and declaring on my Aunt Fran's grave that everything I have declared is the Gospel Truth, I am ready to hand deliver the check for the Homeschool covering.
Thank God the Administrator is not usually in her office except on certain days. I know she is beginning to think I am some member of the Witness Protection Program. Frankly, at this point, I don't even care. Just having to fill out even MORE paperwotk, and send the Homeschool Legal Defense Association $40.00 more to expedite the process of applying, makes me want to sign myself up for a nice , long stay at Happy Valley Sanitarium.
I'm totally serious. I pay my taxes. I don't lie to my dentist when he suspects me of chewing food on the side of my temporary crown, which broke and came off, by the way. I have my correct weight on my driver's license. I tell the truth and nothing but the truth when I witness an altercation, a car wreck, or an incident of discrimination. I'm a nice person. Kids and babies love me. I teach classes at church and play the piano.
I don't deserve this and neither do you. We are the Rosie the Riveters of this generation where brilliant minds are driven senseless while completing umpteen forms that ask you the same questions repeatedly, to try and trick you to say the wrong thing. Which is the right thing. But we are honest women! We are going to say the right thing!
Enough of this, I say! It is time for us to stand up and do the right thing! Let us make our way to Starbucks, and then do some retail therapy. To support the economy, of course! Be strong, my sisters! Do not let that mountain of paperwork defeat you! Let us be free! Oh...and don't forget. "We are better together!" This is Mamacita, Mayo Clinic Volunteer Mentor, signing off!
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Amen. And again, I say, AMEN, Sister! I have it easy helping my blind, arthritic walker-mobilizing, finicky heart-challenged, headed for the century-mark Mother who lives alone and cooks and does her own laundry. BUT, when another puzzling form arrives and I have to search for one more qualifying financial document, I do get frustrated. And getting the call from LifeLine that she’s headed to ER when I’m half way across the country on vacation makes my own heart go finicky. And just when I deliver the pads and Miralax she needs and congratulate myself that I’m done with the Walmart run, she says “Oh, the next time you’re at Walmart could you pick up some 150 watt light bulbs, I’m out.” So then the search is on for the elusive 150 watters. Oh, the guilt. How many people my age, let’s just leave it at “retired”, still are privileged to have a parent? I try to stay in the moment and it worry about tomorrow
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I just has my son's annual meeting with county, day program, and residential program. Its always stressful to me. Then I have a mountain of papers to sign. The day program has papers. The residential program has papers. The county social worker has papers. They told me its like signing papers for a mortgage. But how often does a regular person sign mortgage papers?How often do you buy a new house?? But this is something that I do every time we meet for my son's services. And that's still not everything. I still have to do guardian report to court, SSI payee report to social security, MA renewal. Plus I take son to dental and doctor appointments. I am taking son to U dental clinic for dentists that are residents in dental specialties. Like they need experience with high needs patients. Thats what they told me. Now I am taking my son to Mayo Clinic ophthalmology so they can monitor optic nerve. Then I have medical genetics appointment and I have to schedule him for his CT scans for heart and kidneys. I am thinking of sending my son to special needs winter camp so he has fun over break. I sent him to two different summer camps last year. I don't know what I should so day to day. Its floundering all the time. But I just tell all the professionals what I am doing. I think they just watch and observe. Sometimes I think they are trying to learn things from the caregivers and they don't have all the answers. I think we are in lots of research programs and don't even know what they are researching. Haha.