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A year ago in May I left Ohio for CA. I left a career I had and my house, as well as my car and all that I knew.
I did all that for my wife (and to be honest, partially for me and what I was going through). We came here to CA to be near her family who was supposed to help us out as my wife was getting worse.
They haven't helped much (spent more time bitching at her for being ill) and my job wrote me up for missing a few days when she was sent to the hospital (et al, see previous threads).
The care she has gotten here has been shit - a nurse in the hospital telling her they could not do jack for her because she has Parkinson's. Yeah, we know.
Having my daughter call me in the morning at work and telling me that mommy won't wake up - and being faced with going home to take care of her or keeping my job and meager income.
My daughter wins. Every damned time. So now I go back home to Ohio, to live in my dad's basement where the wife and I started out 10 years ago.
WTF happened to this country and employers here? I have worked since before I was 18, busted ass at every job I have ever had and excelled (been promoted many times at jobs because I work my ass off), watched as old companies I have worked for have been bailed out via tax dollars, and when us 'little people' have a crisis (not of our making) we get shunned.
The company I am with now whines about cuts in medicare and how it will affect their bottom line, and beg for relief. When I do the same I am met with 'so sorry, it is company policy not to have any mercy'.
They, and other companies, beg for relief but don't give their own employees the same.
In a few weeks I will pack up a truck and drive home, and my wife will see the south west one last time.
She is still smart as a whip, still able to talk (and to those who have called her, thank you, she needs to talk at times), but her body is kicking her ass. And now she feels guilt on top of it all because I put in notice at work today.
Health care in America sucks. Period. These big (and sometimes small) companies in the US who spend a ton on influencing politicians to help them suck as well - because the very thing they plead for they don't give.
Sorry - just had one messed up day and needed to vent.
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