Twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, a 60-year-old Betsy Winkler of Kuna, Idaho, sent for the food – it passes by bakeries, restaurants, supermarkets, to fill his old van products found in rubbish bins.
«There’s pepper, asparagus, salad. Here is a package of potatoes and apples,» she says. «Foods are a bit spoiled, and they throw them out, but there are good potatoes, you see? And lately I gather mushrooms. I probably will be enough to hold out until winter,» she continues.
Some vegetables Betsy freezes or zasasyvaet making supplies. Betsy Winkler is not homeless, she just doesn’t have enough money for food, as all funds are used for the treatment of her husband, 69-year-old David, who has Alzheimer’s disease.
Statistics are merciless. Room in a nursing home in the state, according to Genworth Financial, will cost 88 878 dollars a year. The average income of a family in Idaho for the year — 51 624 dollars.
Winkleri get about 51 600 dollars a year, but their retirement income and social security. They would have lived without knowing the needs, if not for the diagnosis of David.
Now the husband of Betsy lives in the center Ashley Manor Memory Care, and care for him is 48 thousand dollars a year.
After Betsy pays all the bills, it is about $ 740 per month, although she tries to live on $ 30 a monthto save, if the cost of treatment David will increase. The couple have been together for 31 years.
«We had plans,» says Betsy edition of the Idaho Statesman. «We wanted to travel. David lived in Hawaii as a child, and he was hoping to show me the state that I loved more than others.»
Previously, Betsy worked, she was making different leather accessories for bikers, but the business had to sell to pay for treatment, when David was diagnosed. Betsy says that her husband could Wake up in the night to start walking around the room, ready to work. Then he began to forget her name.
David lives in the centre, the contents of which patients not covered by the Federal program Medicaid.
«Why I love Betsy? I love her because she puts a lot of effort to love me,» says David.
After another visit to her husband, Betsy is happy. «He said my name,» she smiles. «The second time in two years.»
To help the pair by going to the website GoFundMe.
