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Taking care of my best friend and roommate now for over 3 years but the last 6 months has been incredibly difficult filled with constant anxiety and stress. So 88-year-old veteran has been on a downward spiral since pneumonia and then covid and was in the hospital for 4 months out of the last 6 months. I took care of my grandmother until she passed away but we had hospice then my uncle was in charge I was just the caregiver their full time but hospice came every day. Now I'm in the same situation with my friend Jim and he's getting worse every day. I am have a hard time getting to eat now for the last 3-4 weeks and last week he started throwing up everything... On top of everything else he's a VA hud- recipient and if he passes then that leaves me homeless because I have no income and no savings after 2 years of taking care of him constantly we just live off of his income from social security. Just trying to figure out how to deal with this on a daily basis is exhausting and I really don't get any help from anybody... Any comments would be greatly appreciated I can't seem to find anywhere to even get paid to take care of him except for social security and that of 4 to 6 months before they give you a no decision so I'm really not sure you know what to do but...,
His VA hud-vash social worker is absolutely positively incredibly worthless and she's a senior something or other... I just despise all government agencies with every ounce of my being they are so effing worthless....

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I see I came to the wrong place here... Will be gone before you can even respond, pukes.
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You said you’d be homeless once your friend passes away. So you definitely don’t have your own housing!

Not every resident of a shelter is a homeless, drug addict scumbag. That is a very haughty judgement when you yourself are risking homelessness.

Nor does every patient in a nursing home just die alone because some mean person put them there. I don’t think you can give him the care he needs, and no one person can. But a hospital or hospice setting could!

You are in a situation that is going to end badly for you. You’d be foolish to not start planning ahead for yourself now.
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If you're not dependent on anybody for shelter and food, as you say you are in your post, then you'll be fine once your friend passes and you won't need shelter or food. "I am have a hard time getting to eat now for the last 3-4 weeks and last week he started throwing up everything... On top of everything else he's a VA hud- recipient and if he passes then that leaves me homeless because I have no income and no no savings after 2 years of taking care of him constantly we just live off of his income from social security. Just trying to figure out how to deal with this on a daily basis is exhausting and I really don't get any help from anybody."

Good luck!
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You have made yourself dependent on someone for housing and food in return for care.
You are correct that, at 88, this is self-limiting. When he passes you will have to go to a shelter.
I would call APS to visit to advise you. He may require placement if you cannot continue in care. And you may need guidance to a shelter and to any programs available to help you get on your feet.

I wish you good luck, but getting yourself in this position had this inevitable outcome at the moment it began. I am so very sorry. Had you at the least been married you would have had perhaps some rights as to benefits or housing. As it stands you really have nothing.
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Twostroke 14 hours ago
I see you got this completely wrong, I'm not dependent on somebody for a place to live and food. What you don't understand is I'm not going to let somebody die alone in a nursing home. Will not be going to a shelter with some drug addict homeless people scumbags. You have completely misread this... But thank you for your opinion that is total s***
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