Are you ready to take a shotgun to any speaker that keeps playing the annoying Christmas songs that have been blaring at full volume since Halloween? Yup, I'm there with you. Only a few more days to go until we can shove Mariah Carrey's "All I Want for Christmas is Yooouuuu" back into the big, plastic Christmas storage bin and stuff it up in the attic where it is 104* in August. Hopefully, she suffocates.
The other one I loathe is 'It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas' by the annoying singers that sound like they were hired away from the creepy fun house. "And mom and dad can hardly wait for school to start again....a ha ha ha ha ha ha HA ha ha ha ha." fingernails on a chalkboard
I do not hate all Christmas songs equally. There are two songs I really like, but they are not overly mainstream. One is "Christmas Wrapping" by the Waitresses. The song has the best bass line ever. Another fun fact, the bassist is a woman. The other fun Christmas song is Little St. Nick by the Beach Boys.
Now, onto elder hospital care. SuperBETCH is has been in the hospital for well over a month. She was admitted into Santa Rosa Memorial and was in intensive care for a few weeks. She needs dialysis for 4 hours daily. She also has bone cancer. There are so many things wrong. Here is the sad part for Nice Guy (son of SuperBETCH). SuperBETCH is too "well" for the hospital (or so they say), but too sick to go home. Just where does she go? Well, right now she is at a facility in Sebastopol for the time being. They have dialysis on site.
Here's the kicker. Medicare only pays for a limited time for care at the facility in Sebastopol. I forget what the exact time is, but it is limited. SuperBETCH has long-term care insurance, but it is only good for certain facilities and there are other fine print requirements that are next to impossible to meet.
So now what? Well, nobody can care for SuperBETCH at home. She needs to stay where she is at. However, her care will cost $3,000 per DAY. Do the math. That's $90,000 per MONTH. If she is there for a year, that will add up to about $1,000,000.00. NiceGuy's sister (SuperBETCH, Jr., who is 58 years old, divorced, and just got fired from her job) thinks she is going to inherit a pile of money. News flash: most the estate, if not all of it, will get eaten up in long-term care for SuperBETCH.
Hey, I'm not without my own dealings with my sister-in-law who is elderly and broke. If she died today, there is not enough money to bury her or have a funeral. We would have to pay for it. She is $7,000 in credit card debt, has zero savings, and has $3,000 in her checking account which is dwindling with increased prices. In California, the pecking order for funeral expenses is first the spouse, then kids, then siblings. Yup, you could be stuck paying for a burial for your dead-beat sibling you cut ties with decades ago.
Sister-in-law sits in her chair all day long and watches tv. She expects everybody else to figure out her life -- and to pay for it. She will not take care of herself, but expects everybody else to take care of her. Here is what frosted my beeeehiney today. She texts me a picture of some make up she wants. This is a WANT and not a NEED. What does she need make up for? She is 80 years old and never leaves the house. She needs make up to watch tv? Keep in mind we are paying a significant portion of her living expenses.....and she texts me with a make up request? Thank God they discontinued the make up she wants. The make up she wants is expensive!
Well, enough for now.
Good luck, America, with the aging Boomers. There is a reason they are referenced as the most selfish generation. We are just now seeing the early Boomers fall into poverty. The tsunami is coming. They will not take responsibility for their life choices, but will demand Gen X bail them out. That is another whole 6 hour conversation with a bottle of wine. I've got lots to say about that.
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