I will be 50 yrs. old next may, I never moved away from home because I always went to work and helped out my parents as they helped me not be alone on my own. When my Mom got sick in 2005 I quit my job to stay at home to help my mom, She was on dialasis. She passed away 2007 and now I am staying home to take care of my dad. He is 71 yrs old, has had a quad bypass and going blind. I take care of all of his needs, we live on is social security check. I tried to go to work outside the home but my artrites in my legs and hands wont let me, I also suffer from burcitis in my arm, Many times in the year I have to go to the dr, and they want me to pay 100.00 some agencies I have tried to get help from, Tell me, I am the wrong skin type, not a mother, and therefore there isn't anything out there to help me. My sister pays 500.00 a month on rent, and we pay the rest of the bills, We are on food stamps but they tell me that dad has to pay me so much a month, yet if he gives me money then it goes to pay bills because we need to do so. then the amount they want him to pay me is being subtracted by the amount of food stamps they give me. I dont know what to do or where to go cause like I said I am not a woman of color and I am not a mother, and I even tried to get on disability for myself and I dont quailify for that cause they said I need money to go to a specialist and in return will be told to them if I am sick or not. duh what money do I have to go do that and all my problems the dr the diability gives me only wants to take one xray of one problem not all. They even go as far as to say that they would pay someone else to come in the home and take care of dad but they wont pay me to do it. I know how to take care of dads needs better than some stranger.. My sister cant keep paying for our rented home. she is a mother of four. Life isn't fair for me, and all what I have done for my parents , I cant get anymore help than what I do.
