Why POA is necessary with HE

Because HE doesn't allow people to properly assess a financial situation or even perform simple mathematical calculations. And now, I fear our cell phones might be shut off because of her actions.

My mother has HE. This means she exhibits symptoms of dementia that come and go at the will of the never-to-be-known ammonia level in the brain. Patients with HE are not permitted to drive. Patients with HE are generally under the care of someone with a POA (power of attorney) or many people, in order to effectively handle their personal, financial, and medical affairs. I do not have a POA with my mother. Nobody does. She thinks she's still lucid enough to make these decisions herself, and doesn't trust anybody on this earth enough to think they won't rob her blind once they have a POA. 

She was to call Verizon today to ask why the DVR we've had for nearly 2 years has been going up in price, though not in services. There's no reason for the increase, and small dollar amounts add up to larger dollar amounts, especially when taxes are based on the charged services. Our bill has literally doubled in the last year, slowly, without Mom noticing. She is so inept at things like this....not only are we being charged the same, if not more, for the DVR, but she changed our wireless phone service. She thinks we will be charged $5 less per month with this new deal, which locks us into another 2 year contract (and I was thinking we need to switch to a company that won't increase the bill for no reason). She says that, while saving money, we went from 700 minutes per month out-of-network and unlimited in-network to unlimited everything. 50 out-of-network texts for $5 addition for each line to unlimited texting. And something I don't understand, but she says I have 300 minutes to go online. I don't know what that's supposed to mean, but it sounds like a data plan to me, and I think my mom just financially screwed us for two years and I have no power to fix it, and she has nothing but stubborn denial that she could ever make a financial mistake.

I hate HE. I hate it, I hate it! We're having such a hard time financially right now, and she makes it WORSE. And the thing is, she thinks she's making it better! She's trying SO hard to make it better, and she gets so hurt if I say she didn't, and she automatically gets angry with me when she does this kind of stuff because she gets so defensive and says I insult her....I think our next bill is going to be over the $300 mark. So I might be on facebook and email only, once our cell phones get shut off. :(