My Caregiver

April 1,2018

Well this is a new month. Igot to write in here more often. I am paying for this site and I might as well use it. My goal is to write an entry every day. A lot of stuff has been going on so I should have a lot of stuff to write about. Mostly it is about the drama concerning my caregiver.

I have this worker . Her name is Stephanie. She comes in fixes breakfast and cleans my apartment. That is a good thing, The bad thing is she comes with a lot of drama. When she comes in she always has a problem of some thing or another. Yesterday for example she was going on about another caregiver named Monica. They also work for another tenant in the building named Thomas. Anyways, Stephanie was down there at this guys apartment. She was getting him to sign her time sheet. Monica kept looking at Stephanie’s time sheet. She accused Stephanie of filling out the time sheet wrong Monica also said she should be on her time sheet. They got into it. She came up to me and told me the whole story. She was crying about it and then she was on the phone to the office for about an hour talking to them about it.

The latest problem was the couch incident.  I had an extra couch I wanted to give to Anne. I am no shape to move a couch. Stephanie said that her daughter and the daughter’s roommate would do it fort $20. Anne agreed to pay them $20. They came up to my apartment yesterday afternoon and got the couch. When they got to Anne’s apt Stephanie told Anne to give her the $20. Then she gave her daughter $10. That money was supposed to be for the guy helping the daughter., We do not think he got his share. I bet Stephanie was broke and she kept the $10 for herself.

Anne did not like the way that deal went down. The more I thought about it the more I agree with Anne. It wasn’t right. I did remember telling Anne it is out of your hands. They wanted $20 and you gave her the money. How they divide the money up is up to them. Anne did nothing wrong. But still she thought the deal was kind of shady. Stephanie told her that her daughter didn’t want her roommate to know how much she was getting. By rights he helped her move the couch and half of the twenty should have gone to him.

I do not like the situation with Stephanie for several reasons. The main reason is that she is very intrustive. She is always telling me how to spend my money and what to buy. Yesterday she is was adamant about me getting laundry b leach. We are not supposed to use bleach in the washers. I am not getting bleach because I do not want to screw up the washing machine.Then she was insisting that I get these very expensive pillows from Wal Mart. She also was insistent that I take Anne out to dinner . I am on a fixed income and my money only goes so far.

I was looking at books on my Nook yesterday. She went on about me buying another book. That really got me mad. This is my social security. I can spend my money how I please. If I want to spend it on books then it is my choice. At least i am not behind on my rent. At least I have food to eat for the month, the bills are paid and I have money for meds. How I chose  to spend extra money is my business. I really got mad and ended up buying and down loading an other book.  I was going to tell her but decided that it is none of her damned business.,

Another thing I don’t like ab out her is that she makes up her own schedule. She is supposed to work from 9-11a.m. She never comes on time. Sometimes she doesn’t come at all . Say for example she will miss Monday. Instead of calling the agency to report off she comes to work on Saturday come on Saturday. Then when it is time to fill out the log sheets She will mark it as if she c me on Monday. I will sign off on the log sheets as now I am afraid of saying anything about it for fear of getting into trouble.

Sometimes I think having this caregiver causes more problems than it is worth. I put up with it because I need the help. But I shouldn’t have to listen to her problems. I