Boy Rhonda,
You are dealing with some tough stuff. I suppose that this means that
Ben's job hunt is on hold for now as well. Are you guys able to meet your
bills? I'm so sorry that you are going through so much.
Kathy
At 11:49 AM 1/17/2005, you wrote:
>As some of you may know, I have applied for Adult Low Income Medicade for
>Ben, since he is "an adult, and has low income" sounds like a logical thing
>to do. Well, he is turned down, seems you either have to be a single mother
>with children, pregnant, elderly, or blind. Guess I'll have to see if his
>eye doctor would be willing to say he is legally blind, I really think he
>is, he can't see light when theychange, so doesn't drive, he has to put his
>face right at the computer scree to see it. They say he has cataracts on
>both eyes, and had done some lazor surgery to stop bleeding in the back of
>both eyes, this was prior to removing the cataracts, but because we have no
>insurance we haven't been back. I found a program through the Lions
>Lighthouse but you had to be denied Medicade first, so will try them.
>So, if a young girl gets pregnant and doesn't know who the father is, she
>can have her meeical bills paid, but if a father looses his job because of
>medical problems he is out of luck! I just don't understand.
>
>Rhonda
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