. I had to go to doc tonight after work to get some prednisone pills which I'll take for 12 days, starting tomorrow. She said it will make me irritable but energetic. It's ITCHY! Welt on my eyelid, behind my ear, neck, upper chest. Not fun.
I am still working on getting my mother's creditors to start sending me the bills. I discovered that it would probably be easier with most of them to just call them with my mother present and then have her get on the phone to add me as an "authorized" user. I had been trying to fax my power of attorney paperwork and it was just a pain waiting on hold for someone to get the fax number, etc.
So tomorrow for the 4th Saturday in a row i am schlepping over to my mother's. It's the only day of the week I can do this unless i take time off from work, which I'm not about to do.
At least I now have access to her bank account online, and the new checks have been ordered.
Speaking of time off, there is a mandatory furlough for contractors at the bank for the first week of July. I'm not happy about going without a paycheck that week, but I have no say in the matter. So I've arranged to spend an overnight at my dad's on the jersey shore for 2 days, and then hope to get some home improvement-type work done around the house. And squeeze in some MUCH needed R&R.
Three of us walked at lunchtime today, and we were all looking forward to the ice cream truck that parks outside the bank every Friday from 3 to 4. We were so disappointed to not see his truck there....he is on vacation. I did grab Chinese to go for dinner tonight as a consolation prize.
Oh, crap. I have poison ivy
June 7th, 2014 at 12:01 am
June 7th, 2014 at 02:46 am 1402109198
Sorry you have to deal with your mom's finances - I dread the time I have to do that. I'm still pretending I don't know my mom when the creditors call my house looking for her. I may have a lot of debt, but at least I pay mine!
And now I want Chinese food... mmm yummy
June 7th, 2014 at 09:54 am 1402134885
I'm not at all crazy about going on steroids, but sleeping at night is awful and i caught myself scratching in my sleep. Not being able to rub my eye is tough. I'm going to take extra calcium and Vit. D since prednisone is bad for the bones.
So far, dealing with my mother's finances has been a real pain. It has to be done, there is no question about that, but it's been difficult and I've barely started. I'm hoping once everything is set up it will become routine, but even then, since she's still writing checks, I'll have to continuously be telling her how much I paid for this, how much i paid for that, using her checking account, so she can keep it balanced.
Never having been married, I honestly don't know how married people keep a joint checking account and keep things straight. If there are any married people with joint checking accounts, I'd love to hear how you do it! Is there an easy way to share this info back and forth?
June 7th, 2014 at 01:59 pm 1402149573
So sorry about that poison ivy. Awful! It can drive a person crazy!