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   Carol,   
      
   CS>Hehehe welcome!   
      
     Thanks. I've seen your posts in FIDONet for years.   
      
   CS>I've been offline for a bit here.  Family medical issues.   
      
     Same here. My Mom is in a nursing home, and I can only go visit her   
   once a week. Part of the reasons are the long drive (never mind they   
   drive like maniacs on the interstate highways -- the speed limit in   
   rural areas may be 75, but they're doing at least 90, if not 100 or   
   more), and the use of gasoline...but it has been a very stormy spring   
   around here. If there's flooding, etc. I stay home. Even if she had been   
   in Little Rock, she told my brother and I *NOT* to venture out. Here,   
   most everyone thinks they can stop on a snowy, wet, or icy pavement,   
   just as fast as they can on dry pavement.   
      
     The place in Lonoke, Arkansas, where she is, is at least 45 miles east   
   of Little Rock (about an hour drive each way from what was her home (now   
   mine)). It was the only place that would take her, because she had too   
   much in stocks, life insurance, etc., that had to be cashed in, to go   
   into a Miller Trust, to pay the $5500 a month nursing home bill, and the   
   $700 a month pharmacy bill. Hopefully, if they get her on Medicaid on   
   July 1, I won't have to pay that...as my Mom doesn't even have $55 in   
   the bank.   
      
     You have to have UNDER $2000 in assets to get on Medicaid, and they   
   look for records from the last 5 years (bank statements, credit cards,   
   even gifts or checks to ones own children). Two years ago, her health   
   was declining at 90, but she has really gone downhill in the last year.   
      
     My brother wanted NOTHING TO DO with the financial end of it, but he   
   wanted his money. So, I had to become her Power Of Attorney, and take   
   care of all of that crap on my own. Then, I had to move back to what is   
   now my place last fall, and lost 95% of the furniture, as I had no room   
   for it over here.   
      
     We finally got some funding last month, where he could fix the roof on   
   his mobile home, and repair his vehicle...and I could pay several bills,   
   including appliance service policies, and car repairs. I also am doing a   
   "compensation" final trip via Amtrak passenger train to Albuquerque, New   
   Mexico in September, for a ham radio event. I will also travel to   
   Clinton, Arkansas in early October, for a state square dance event (ham   
   radio and square dancing are my 2 other hobbies besides the BBS)...but   
   those will be my FINAL TRIPS outside of central Arkansas. My health and   
   finances are getting to the point where it's too difficult anymore.   
      
   Daryl   
      
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