I went to see Mom and Dad today at lunch. Dad seemed to be so glad to see me: he kept saying did you just get here? eat some breakfast with us? He was drinking coffee and 'waiting' on breakfast. Mom was asleep in her chair. They didn't bring them lunch until between 15 and 20 till 1:00! Dad kept yelling 'help' and 'where's my food?' and 'I'm hungry' and saying it was the d....mess he'd seen. When they did bring lunch, I fed Mom all of her food and Dad ate about 1/2 to 2/3 of his. He then rolled off and went to bed! Some of the stuff he said made sense and some didn't at all. Mom never said anything. As for how they were, I asked Debbie how they were doing and she said she'd been off all last week. Anyway, they were ok. About the same. As for me, I've really just had a hard time of it lately. I think I finally have let everything finally just crash in on me----I think everything that's happened the last several years that wasn't good/happy I've just locked away and didn't really let myself deal with it. With the death of Annie, it's just kind of opened everything up for me. I've got to just get myself back together and it will be fine. Bruce and I had a good time in Florida---we neither one wanted to come back. It was so peaceful and I LOVE the ocean and the beach/water. On the money situation, I got another letter from DHS. I assumed it was THE final one. I took it to Chad today and Beth said 'no' it's DHS's reasoning for 'why' the lady ruled as she did! Don't even get me started on her!!!!!!! Anyway, I said do I just need to get a final number and let the sisters know the amount. She said that Chad has filed an appeal and is waiting for them to contact him with a time. They'll do a phone conference and I won't have to be there-----good thing! So for right now, we're still in a holding pattern on that. I did ask that worse case scenario would DHS begin to pay April 29. Yes is the answer. I also asked about keeping AARP and Humana for both of them right now, and she said she would. So I mailed in AARP's payment for April today. Nothing like being 1/2 month late! Anyway, we are getting close to the end of this segment----we'll still have the battles to fight about Dad's, I figure, even though he has a Medicaid card, etc. Jamie, sorry, this is my turn to be depressed! You'll have to wait a little while. Only one of us at a time, and I was here first! Love you all, Jeanie