Ok, hopefully, I get all this on without forgetting something! LOL!
1. Jamie, I use cheddar---in fact usually it's sharp or extra sharp cheddar, miracle whip lite, pimentos and all the juice in one jar (I usually use the chopped pimentos and then smash them some more) + sugar. That's all I use. No pickle juice here.
2. Pam, I'm not leaving until Thurs for Louisville, so I'll go on Wed to check on Mom and Dad. Pat will be out of town, too, so anything you can do between Thurs and Sun will be great. I'll go again on Mon when we get back.
3. I did go see Mom and Dad today. Mom was Mom--not really any change. Dad was not as good as last Thurs, but not as bad as he was for Pat on Sun. He looked at me when I first got there like he didn't know who I was. He didn't eat much and kept rolling away. He'd tried to stand up this morning to go to the bathroom in the big commons area and got upset when they took him to the bathroom. By the time I left, he was better. I fed him a candy bar and got him some tobacco, and he was 'chillin'' some then. I did get a call about 6:30 to say he'd fallen on his backside. He'd gone into the wrong room and tried to get into their bed and slid out onto the floor. He wasn't (or didn't appear to be) hurt. Both had been weighed today and both had stayed at the same weight as last week.
4. I talked to MS today and got Dad's bill all straightened out. He now has a $0.00 balance. They had not credited the cash I'd paid at the first of the month to his acct. Cash is deposited into a totally different acct and then they write a check for it and put it then on the resident's acct. Whatever! I asked WHEN the check would be written, and she said today. That left a $55.32 balance still owed. I'm like---nope---should be zero. Come to find out, there was a credit (I had a copy of the bill they'd sent me showing this) on the private pay side that hadn't been moved to the Medicaid said---anyway, it got moved and zeroed out Dad's acct! YEA! He went over Mom's bill with me today, and WHATEVER, again---LOL!---he came out with the same thing. It's $20,796.89! Good grief! I used just about every dollar in Mom's Trust Acct (I called and asked Faith) and their joint acct to pay on this. Bottom line is this: each of us will owe LNC $3200. That's not anywhere near what I was afraid at one point we'd owe. It still stinks, but that's just what it is. I'm taking my check to MS on Wed. You can mail yours to LNC at :
Lakeside Nursing Center
1207 Willow Run Road
P.O. Box 578
Lake City, AR 72437
Michael Smith said to note on it that it's to be paid on Margaret Shelton's acct. The sooner the better on this, so that I can file this whole thing away. It's been a long time coming, but this bill, calling AARP to cancel Dad's coverage and sending Faith 2 more documents will put a big period by this part of the process---the getting them both on Medicaid, paying their private pay bills, switching their drug coverage, cancelling their AARP's, and who knows what else! Ok, I think that's it. Love you all, Jeanie