If you don't think this is a breeder-centric world...
Long-term posters know that I have been taking care of my mom and late stepdad for the last two years. He passed away just over a year ago, but Mom then got breast cancer and then had a severe stroke just after the cancer treatment ended, leaving me unable to go back to work. She is in a skilled treatment facility for rehab and will return home to my care in mid-February. So...
1. Applied for Medicaid for her in case she has to stay in a nursing home. That was on 6 November.
Just this week, after providing Social Services with a boatload of info weeks back, the case worker calls and wants even more info. Then our state governor announces plans to freeze new Medicaid applications because of the huge budget deficit. I withdrew Mom's application as a result. But it's obvious that Social Services wouldn't have been dragging its feet for breeders with bastards to feed.
2. Applied for a local radio station's Christmas Wish fund, seeking just a little money to help with the bills and explaining the situation here. Mom had numerous medical bill copays during her cancer treatment, and we had other setbacks that combined to put me behind paying the bills. Keep in mind that I have been unable to work due to Mom's illnesses. Now it appears that my application was ignored in favor of helping a bunch of breeder single moos. One featured on this radio station had three teenagers and was evidently never married. That's a classic case of bed—made—lie.
3. My brother refuses to help. His attitude from day one when Mom's ministrokes began to affect her was that I should have dumped her and my stepdad in a nursing home and moved on. He has failed to comprehend my explanations about levels of care, nursing home and Medicaid requirements, etc., and I had gone so far as to talk to an elder care attorney back in 2006 when this all first came up. (There is a huge amount of folklore out there about these topics, and most people simply have no clue about it all.) He says he is trying to take care of "his" family (actually his wife's two daughters from her first marriage, and she gets child support from her ex). He was willing to take them camping for a week but unwilling to give me a couple of days' respite when I was caring for Mom and my stepdad together.
Oh well. He'll find out just how much that's "his family" when the girls get angry at him for not letting them do something and they make a false accusation of molestation to get back at him...