They more or less have people like Danny and myself being forced to MAKE us *square* people into the *round* holes to qualify for Medicaid or the Medicaid waivers. In other words, we can only have so much money or have to spend it down and then they are always needing to know h1ow much money we have to keep being eligible, etc. In other words, flashlights up our butts and so on and so forth. Some of us just fall between the cracks. To much money/assets to qualify but not enough money to be able to hire the extra care we need as far as home health aides and other things. Lori Michaelson Age - 45 C4/5 complete quad, 29 years post Tucson, AZ
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Steve Oldaker <[email protected]>wrote: > Danny, > > > > If you have not already done so, I strongly suggest checking out the > information at the site below. > > > > http://www.dds.ca.gov/waiver/home.cfm > > > > If you have already applied and have been turned down for some reason, > there may be steps you can take that will make you eligible. > > > > Steve - C4, 21 years > > > > *From:* Daniel Espinoza [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Sunday, August 30, 2009 6:06 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [QUAD-L] frustrations with Medi-Cal and Medicare > > > > > > I seriously don't understand how you guys live off this, I get 1400 a month > and then I have to pay about 1100 for my share of cost. Luckily I'm not > going to get kicked out for not paying rent but I am supposed to and that's > beside the point. It gives me $300 for rent, food, utilities, and any > medical supplies not covered. I think it's really screwed up, I'm going to > call them on Monday and try to figure this stuff out but before I do that I > would really like to know what you guys think? It's almost like I have no > choice but to live in a nursing home, which I would imagine would cost more > than what they give me a month. I live in Southern California so maybe that > has something to do with my frustrations because everything seems to be a > lot more expensive here than elsewhere. I really don't want to move because > all of my family lives here, and they take care of me when my caregivers > don't. > > Thanks in advance for any advice you guys have for me. I've been a quad for > a little over three years now so I really don't understand the ins and outs > of all of this just quite yet…. > > > > Daniel Espinoza 26/m/California > > > > Occupation before accident - Network engineer / SR. Network security > engineer What happened: > > I broke my c2,c6,c7 and had to get donor bone at c2, which left me as a > Quadriplegic <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadriplegia>. > > I had a > Traumatic_brain_injury<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumatic_brain_injury>from > blood going to my brain from my spinal cord, but its getting better > with time. > > I am off a ventilator <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventilator> "woohoo" > however only half of my > diaphragm<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoracic_diaphragm>works right now > "due to an asymmetric spinal > cord injury <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_cord_injury>....." > > > > http://www.thespinalcordinjured.net <http://spinalcordinjured.net/> > > http://www.myspace.com/dannylnx > > > -- Lori Age - 45 C4/5 complete quad, nearly 30 years post Tucson, AZ
