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Placement delayed

Placement has been delayed until at least Monday. Because of the psychiatrists note, we need hospital records. since we can’t get those before a deadline that has already passed today, we can’t admit tomorrow. Since we can’t admit tomorrow and the person who does admissions is out the rest of the week, we are looking at Monday the earliest. That is if the Medicaid approval comes through. If David comes home before placement, we will be in a special kind of hell. Because he knows that he can do what ever he wants and is basically untouchable. David and I will check into a hotel of some kind before I will let him harm anyone in the family. I don’t want my family to become statistics on the evening news “because the system failed my family.” Tweet #fighting4answrs

Feelings of Futility

We are pending approval for placement in a psychiatric facility. Placement is dependent on the insurance company approving the need. Certificate of Need is generated by the insurance company. This allows placement. Certificate of Need is based in part on the last psychiatric appointment that David had with his doctor. So, we finally received the notes from his last psych appointment. Again, the record is inaccurate. Every time we have to argue with medical records to get copies of the record, the notes have been inaccurate. I understand that doctors are busy people, but when placement hinges on accurate notes, writing things like this destroys any chance of placement. The doctor wrote that “patient swung a shovel at his father and broke the sewing machine, after his father washed his mouth out with soap.” Among other things, David is a known liar. The shovel incident happened because we were holding

American Express warning

So, I received this message from “American Express”. Now, this would be an appropriate alert, if… I was one to download web pages to my desktop to run them later. I had an American Express Card. So how about some tips? More and more, we are forced to move toward receiving notifications from companies regarding billing, alerts and propaganda. Our world is increasing digitally and decreasing in paper. Does that make sense? If you receive an alert such as this one, go to the company portal directly, do not click a link in the email message that you received. Call the customer service line to get a voice from the company on the phone to confirm what you are reading. If a company sends out an alert of any kind, they will use proper English. While I didn’t click on any of the links in the email alert that