It didn't last long

Rick came over at 1:00 p.m. and moved a recliner all by himself.  I had intended on helping him, but he went ahead and got it all loaded before I even got home.  After delivering the recliner we came back home and I proceeded to vacuum up the floors and clean things up.  Rick took a shower and got ready for us to go out to eat. I hadn't eaten all day and it was now around 3:30 or 4:00 p.m.  Rick in his usual manner started in with his ground rules about how it's going to be around here or he will move out for good this time.  I listened and understood his side of the story, but I don't think he understood my side of the story.  He also told me how miserable he had been having to move out, and I told him that he broke my heart by moving out, and that if he was already threatening to move out even before he actually moved back in, then maybe he shouldn't move back in here with me.  He quickly said that he didn't mean it to sound that way, but how else could I take it.  That was soon forgotten and all went well as he finished getting himself ready and we headed out the door to go get something to eat when it all started up again.  That name calling and criticizing me.  I just couldn't take it so I told him, in a loud voice, not shouting, that for the last 3 weeks nobody has called me fat, ugly, dumb or criticized me for how shabbily I dress.....so I turned around and came back into the house and he drove off to eat without me.  

I don't have a clue as to whether he will come back here tonight or not.  He's been gone since the morning of November 11th anyway, and wanted to return today, but things didn't work out as we both wanted.  He just can't control his mouth.  He'd be perfect if it wasn't for that.  He makes me laugh and we have fun together, but his constant belittling and bullying are just too much for me to handle. I'd rather live alone than to hear how awful I am all the time.  I make every effort to be nice to him and to make sure his needs are always met, but I guess that's not enough for him.

Our Government never ceases to surprise me in the depths they will go

Here's something that I read that just doesn't seem right and I hope this proposal dies before it becomes final.  It pertains mostly to seniors on Medicare Part D, the prescription drug program,  but there are also disabled younger people who are also on Medicare Part D.  Is this how our government is going to handle the mental health problem?  Do they not think that some of these seniors, with nothing to lose won't go on a rampage once off their drugs and possibly hurt someone?  
Of course, I know some of you are thinking that people on Medicare and Medicaid can just buy their own antidepressant and immunosuppressant drugs, but you forget that a Social Security monthly check is not even enough to live on.

 New Medicare Rules Could Increase Seniors' Suicides

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed a new regulation limiting the drugs covered under Medicare's Part D, the prescription drug component of the program — a rule that could have "serious consequences."

Currently, Part D plans must include medications in six drug categories. But with the new regulation, published in the Federal Register in January, CMS would no longer require all drugs from the antidepressant and immunosuppressant drug classes to be covered by Part D.

"Seniors would no longer necessarily have access to insurance for these drugs, with serious consequences," Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, wrote in an article published by RealClearMarkets.

"Depression is the most frequent mental health problem in the elderly, and lack of treatment can lead to suicide," she observed. "Depressed patients can cause difficulties for family members and caregivers."

Immunosuppressant drugs are used to prevent the body from rejecting a transplanted organ, and cutting back on these drugs would make transplants more risky and less successful.

CMS calculates that disallowing drugs in those two classes would save $720 million from 2015, when the regulation would take effect, to 2019. That's just $144 million a year, two-tenths of one percent of net Medicare outlays in 2019.

"Reducing access to major classes of drugs that were required from the beginning of the Part D program would cut Medicare costs by shortening seniors' lives, but that is not the direction in which our society wants to go," Furchtgott-Roth said, adding that the regulation "should be changed" before it becomes final.