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Originally Posted by jester
You gotta be shitting me!
They gave me like I said all the percentages added up to something insane, but I am paid at 90% because I can and do work.
Here is one, your mom lives with you, have you included that, since they do pay extra for taking care of spouses and family members to include parents.
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They bumped me up 50% and rated me unemployable at the time at the time due to the effects of psychiatric medication alone. Antipsychotics, especially the heavy dose I take, tend to make you into a zombie; I'm awake maybe 6-8 hours a day and truly alert about four. Meds like Nuvigil and Provigil can keep me awake and alert much longer, but long-term use (two weeks every day or more) causes them to knock out my antipsychotics -- and you don't want to be wide awake and alert and psychotic. So I only take them as needed, like when I need to get my mother or myself to an early appointment. And believe me, you don't want me off my antipsychotics! I was working before that point, but I kept falling asleep on the job and I'm surprised I never had an accident from falling asleep at the wheel.
As for my mother -- well, I told her that she could divorce my stepmonster at any time, probably take him to the cleaners due to his history with the family, and I could take her as a dependent and still get her Tricare. I checked on that. For whatever reason, she won't dump him, even though they are separated and she has no intention of ever going back to him. (And I've already told him that he's not welcome on my property -- "don't even pull into the driveway.") But for whatever reason, she stays married to him. Beats me. Oh well. He's a nursing home wreck now anyway, and my brother has power of attorney over his finances, so we'll never have any problems with him again. And I don't want him to die, strangely enough; I want him to live and suffer.
Pity party over.