I just applied to another company for a medical loan to have Mr. Leeny's teeth extracted, and was turned down by them. This company was the first to extend credit to me after the chapter 7 filing in 2003 (a medical loan to get Mr. Leeny's teeth capped), I have two credit cards with them on which I have never had a missed or late payment, and just the other day I got a letter from them offering me a $30,000 loan to buy a new car! Yet they won't lend me $2,200 to have Mr. Leeny's teeth extracted.
The woman from the church was not able to bring up Mr. Leeny's need at Sunday's meeting of the benevolence organization; it was an annual meeting at which that kind of business was not addressed. She called me the next day and told me she's pretty sure that they will approve this in January anyway, but that it would be mid- to late January before that would happen. She said she would ask them for "around $400", and that I should get started raising matching funds. How the heck am I supposed to do that, hold a bake sale at work?
I told The Temp what was going on, and he said he would bring the matter up with the church Council at their meeting last night. I'll talk to him about it on Sunday. I'm just not that eager to hear that they can't do anything.
The GP is putting Mr. Leeny on antibiotics and is taking over management of pain medication for him. He suggested I find another dentist who accepts funding from the other source, but now that they've turned me down, too, that isn't going to help.
I feel like an absolute failure.
