Community Action Appointment
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2016 4:44 am
I am in desperate need of some help and have tried everything I know to do and can't get anywhere. My Sister-in-Law was telling me about "Community Action" but I had never heard of it. I googled it and found the email. She said her daughter just got hired through the Community Action to sit with someone and she is in WV but I live in Virginia Beach, VA so I don't know if that is around here or not. I will try to make this as short as possible but with as much information as I possibly can.
My husband has had five strokes. The last one was in 2015. The first one paralyzed him on the right side completely. He went through rehab. Each stroke has done more damage to him. He can't really do much for himself except feed himself but at first after the in 2014 he couldn't even do that. He is in Rehab now but coming home Monday.
I work five days a week and go to school two nights a week. I had him in a program called PACE but they did me wrong a couple times and it really hurt me and I lost all the faith and hope in them so withdrew him but now wish I hadn't. I have no one to help me with him. I need someone to stay with him during the days I work and the two nights I go to school and cannot find an agency that will approve those hours and he has Medicaid/Medicare so I thought that they would pay for his care. I am being told they won't.
My sister-in-law told me to contact you all to see if there is anything you can do to help me but getting me a sitter to sit with him during the week. The hours are Monday and Thursday from 7:30 am - 9:30 pm due to working and going to school right after work; Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 7:30 - 5:00. My next quarter at school starts in a couple weeks and I am only going one night this quarter which will be on Thursday so I would only need someone those long hours on Thursday. I have a girlfriend that wasn't to do it the days I go to school and get paid for it but I don't have the money to pay someone. If it could be done for her to do that it would be wonderful.
Can you please help me with this and let me know if you all do this and what I need to do to get it in place by Tuesday? I will try to get someone to watch him Monday after I bring him home from Rehab while I go to school. You can call me over the weekend if need be. I am OK with that.
I will wait to hear from someone.
My husband has had five strokes. The last one was in 2015. The first one paralyzed him on the right side completely. He went through rehab. Each stroke has done more damage to him. He can't really do much for himself except feed himself but at first after the in 2014 he couldn't even do that. He is in Rehab now but coming home Monday.
I work five days a week and go to school two nights a week. I had him in a program called PACE but they did me wrong a couple times and it really hurt me and I lost all the faith and hope in them so withdrew him but now wish I hadn't. I have no one to help me with him. I need someone to stay with him during the days I work and the two nights I go to school and cannot find an agency that will approve those hours and he has Medicaid/Medicare so I thought that they would pay for his care. I am being told they won't.
My sister-in-law told me to contact you all to see if there is anything you can do to help me but getting me a sitter to sit with him during the week. The hours are Monday and Thursday from 7:30 am - 9:30 pm due to working and going to school right after work; Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 7:30 - 5:00. My next quarter at school starts in a couple weeks and I am only going one night this quarter which will be on Thursday so I would only need someone those long hours on Thursday. I have a girlfriend that wasn't to do it the days I go to school and get paid for it but I don't have the money to pay someone. If it could be done for her to do that it would be wonderful.
Can you please help me with this and let me know if you all do this and what I need to do to get it in place by Tuesday? I will try to get someone to watch him Monday after I bring him home from Rehab while I go to school. You can call me over the weekend if need be. I am OK with that.
I will wait to hear from someone.