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Dec. 2nd, 2004 04:03 pmI just got off the phone with the nursing home's office manager.
I explained to her the situation of my mother's "estate" and how there actually isn't one. I also told her about how when my mother was receiving the SSD benefits, the bulk of that money was going towards her bills and keeping a roof over our heads. Keeping the apartment for when we thought she was coming home. And that the rest of what little money she had went to funeral expenses.
She asked if I signed the admission packet, which I have no idea what that is. I met with so many different people when my mother went into Innova and saw so much paperwork, I don't even know who and what they all were. No one really took the time to explain to me the ins and outs of this whole mess and I wasn't in the frame of mind to start asking questions, I had too much else to worry about.
What I do know is that I don't have copies of anything from her admission. And I keep fairly meticulous records. In my little file box of Mom's papers, I don't have anything whatsoever for the nursing home. Nothing.
I'm worried, though, that I signed something saying I'm responsible for this. There was so much shit going on at the time and I was being pulled in twenty different directions at once. The only thing I can definitively say is that I held Power of Attorney and I was first to be contacted regarding anything.
After I explained to the office manager (not that shmuck, Jeffrey) that I'm being piled on by all of my mother's creditors (and hear this now, there's a fucking billion of them crawling out of the woodwork), she recommended that I at least consult with an estate attorney. See if they'll give me a free consultation, because I can't pay for shit right now or for the foreseeable near future.
I literally have zero money for this crap. I barely make my own bills and rent now without that extra bit coming in from my mom, especially with the rent having gone up and me having to pay a full half of it. It's a lot of fucking money and I don't make that much an hour. I'm working fifty hour work weeks now and contemplating taking on extra hours from the call center, but I can't drive myself into the ground with this.
The office manager said she's going to bring this to the administrator (the aforementioned Jeffrey) and see what he decides, then call me tomorrow. I'm trying to be optimistic about this, but I have a feeling I'm going to get fucked.
I explained to her the situation of my mother's "estate" and how there actually isn't one. I also told her about how when my mother was receiving the SSD benefits, the bulk of that money was going towards her bills and keeping a roof over our heads. Keeping the apartment for when we thought she was coming home. And that the rest of what little money she had went to funeral expenses.
She asked if I signed the admission packet, which I have no idea what that is. I met with so many different people when my mother went into Innova and saw so much paperwork, I don't even know who and what they all were. No one really took the time to explain to me the ins and outs of this whole mess and I wasn't in the frame of mind to start asking questions, I had too much else to worry about.
What I do know is that I don't have copies of anything from her admission. And I keep fairly meticulous records. In my little file box of Mom's papers, I don't have anything whatsoever for the nursing home. Nothing.
I'm worried, though, that I signed something saying I'm responsible for this. There was so much shit going on at the time and I was being pulled in twenty different directions at once. The only thing I can definitively say is that I held Power of Attorney and I was first to be contacted regarding anything.
After I explained to the office manager (not that shmuck, Jeffrey) that I'm being piled on by all of my mother's creditors (and hear this now, there's a fucking billion of them crawling out of the woodwork), she recommended that I at least consult with an estate attorney. See if they'll give me a free consultation, because I can't pay for shit right now or for the foreseeable near future.
I literally have zero money for this crap. I barely make my own bills and rent now without that extra bit coming in from my mom, especially with the rent having gone up and me having to pay a full half of it. It's a lot of fucking money and I don't make that much an hour. I'm working fifty hour work weeks now and contemplating taking on extra hours from the call center, but I can't drive myself into the ground with this.
The office manager said she's going to bring this to the administrator (the aforementioned Jeffrey) and see what he decides, then call me tomorrow. I'm trying to be optimistic about this, but I have a feeling I'm going to get fucked.