Our Lewy Body Dementia and Parkinson disease journey....step #4

 

When daughter Val was home and son Jon was here we all went to a lot of appointments and tried to get a few things settled. It felt like the hand of God was moving right before us each step of the way. But step #4....we took a tour of a facility that would deal with Lewy body dementia and Parkinson here in the valley. I won't say which one yet as more needs to be worked out. This is just because our neurologist told us to prepare...poor hubby with these diseases more issues will keep arising. So...I had to start dealing with the state of Idaho...mercy....what an ordeal...we even went to our elder attorney for information and backing on some issues. We have not had anything to do with the state of Idaho in over 45 years other than social security which was a breeze to get. But our Medicaid journey was to begin. Calls from the state with some not to nice of people....and me with a thousand questions was getting no where. Daughter was out camping and she does a lot of our paperwork...I was told brent did not qualify and we were to old for any benefits for him...........so I cried....I am an emotional granny....anyway son Jon kept telling just to let the attorney and time play out....I took more paperwork to the attorney...he called us back today and told me what to do. Another call to the state and things just started falling into place....yes, we finally got Brent on Medicaid...and now if anything goes sour we are ready. No we are not getting anything from the state but medical help for brent only...we don't need anything else we got this....but I can now breathe a lot easier...I started crying to the lady from the state and even told her before I hung up I loved for her help....she laughed and said she was glad to help someone who really needed it...God's hand moved one step ahead of us again...we are so blessed...will let you all know the place and pics when it comes time...God bless...