difficult child has broken her ankle and lost her job. She has no money for food and will soon be homeless. She also had her car booted and could not pay the fee to have it removed so they impounded her car.
difficult child is sounding pretty desperate and I think is shocked that we have not rushed to her rescue. She called from the hospital several times last weekend and we didn't return her calls. Then, on Monday, she had the urgent care facility she was at for her ankle call us for the copay. husband told them that she was over her out of pocket maximum so there should be no copay. The woman insisted that Humana said there was so husband told her that difficult child should call an ambulance and go back to the ER because we were not going to pay it. They then relented and said that they would treat her but that she had to sign a statement that said if there turned out to be a copay we would pay it. husband told her that she must have meant difficult child would pay it because we were not responsible for her bills.
Of course, the only reason I could think that difficult child would be at an urgent care facility after being treated at the hospital for the broken ankle and being told to see a specialist was for pain medications. We were not about to pay for that.
Then, yesterday, she changed her phone number to our area code so we would answer (we had her number blocked) and I answered. She very smugly said, "Hi mom" like she had beaten us somehow. I just hung up and blocked her new number. So she sent emails to husband at school with a new email address (we had been having her emails sent straight to a junk folder) to tell him that her car had been booted and she had given the company his number so he could pay them since she didn't have the $80. husband ignored the call from the company and the car has now been impounded.
She sent husband a text from her new number saying that she was willing to go to rehab if we would just get her car back for her. husband texted back that it was great she was ready to go to rehab but if she was doing it in expectation of something in return, it was not going to happen. He wished her luck and told her to contact us after she was in an inpatient treatment center.
I am struggling with how will she get there but I keep reminding myself that she knows people with cars or could take the bus. She is also claiming that she called the rehab that we know would take her insurance and they said they would not take her with a broken ankle. I don't believe that. Does anyone know if that could be true?
Keep a good thought for us.
~Kathy
difficult child is sounding pretty desperate and I think is shocked that we have not rushed to her rescue. She called from the hospital several times last weekend and we didn't return her calls. Then, on Monday, she had the urgent care facility she was at for her ankle call us for the copay. husband told them that she was over her out of pocket maximum so there should be no copay. The woman insisted that Humana said there was so husband told her that difficult child should call an ambulance and go back to the ER because we were not going to pay it. They then relented and said that they would treat her but that she had to sign a statement that said if there turned out to be a copay we would pay it. husband told her that she must have meant difficult child would pay it because we were not responsible for her bills.
Of course, the only reason I could think that difficult child would be at an urgent care facility after being treated at the hospital for the broken ankle and being told to see a specialist was for pain medications. We were not about to pay for that.
Then, yesterday, she changed her phone number to our area code so we would answer (we had her number blocked) and I answered. She very smugly said, "Hi mom" like she had beaten us somehow. I just hung up and blocked her new number. So she sent emails to husband at school with a new email address (we had been having her emails sent straight to a junk folder) to tell him that her car had been booted and she had given the company his number so he could pay them since she didn't have the $80. husband ignored the call from the company and the car has now been impounded.
She sent husband a text from her new number saying that she was willing to go to rehab if we would just get her car back for her. husband texted back that it was great she was ready to go to rehab but if she was doing it in expectation of something in return, it was not going to happen. He wished her luck and told her to contact us after she was in an inpatient treatment center.
I am struggling with how will she get there but I keep reminding myself that she knows people with cars or could take the bus. She is also claiming that she called the rehab that we know would take her insurance and they said they would not take her with a broken ankle. I don't believe that. Does anyone know if that could be true?
Keep a good thought for us.
~Kathy