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Am I steering my own, true course or heading for the rocks?
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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 742959" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Thank you Smithmom. Actually he gets the medication free. Because his doctor is part of a teaching hospital there are waivers available. The pharmaceutical companies have to give out some of their high cost medications to ill people who cannot afford it. But in any event, I was able to keep him on my insurance, and did so precisely for this reason. I wanted him to be able to have Cadillac treatment if and when it became available and he needed it.He hates homeless shelters. He actually does not like homeless people!!! He feels superior I think. I don't think he thinks of himself as homeless.</p><p></p><p>This is one thing that perplexes us so much. With all the contempt he has for how his parents lived (they were homeless) and how other drug using, homeless people are, why would he live like this...and how does he insulate himself from the recognition that he has fallen to the lows that he finds beneath contempt?</p><p>It is not the cost of the medication. It is how to keep the medication safe. He would carry it in his backpack. That is not safe. He would have no place to secure it. And there is the issue of remembering to take it every day. And then there is the issue of facing and taking seriously the risk of stopping the medication or of not taking it consistently. There are just too many hurdles. </p><p></p><p>I have no power and no control in the best of circumstances. I can only oversee the medication if he were to live with me, which is not impossible. </p><p></p><p>I think I mentioned that there is a wing of my house that can be closed off with a door. It has its own exterior door, two bedrooms and a bathroom. It could easily be adapted into a self-contained unit. He does better when he is here. The thing is that I have not done better with him here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 742959, member: 18958"] Thank you Smithmom. Actually he gets the medication free. Because his doctor is part of a teaching hospital there are waivers available. The pharmaceutical companies have to give out some of their high cost medications to ill people who cannot afford it. But in any event, I was able to keep him on my insurance, and did so precisely for this reason. I wanted him to be able to have Cadillac treatment if and when it became available and he needed it.He hates homeless shelters. He actually does not like homeless people!!! He feels superior I think. I don't think he thinks of himself as homeless. This is one thing that perplexes us so much. With all the contempt he has for how his parents lived (they were homeless) and how other drug using, homeless people are, why would he live like this...and how does he insulate himself from the recognition that he has fallen to the lows that he finds beneath contempt? It is not the cost of the medication. It is how to keep the medication safe. He would carry it in his backpack. That is not safe. He would have no place to secure it. And there is the issue of remembering to take it every day. And then there is the issue of facing and taking seriously the risk of stopping the medication or of not taking it consistently. There are just too many hurdles. I have no power and no control in the best of circumstances. I can only oversee the medication if he were to live with me, which is not impossible. I think I mentioned that there is a wing of my house that can be closed off with a door. It has its own exterior door, two bedrooms and a bathroom. It could easily be adapted into a self-contained unit. He does better when he is here. The thing is that I have not done better with him here. [/QUOTE]
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