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June 12, 2008
DEPRESSING NEWS
Today I was continuing to help that friend of mine that is homeless. Well he is in the
hospital and has been there for a couple of weeks , we have been working on getting his
paperwork completed so that he can start receiving disability. Today found out that even though this process began before he entered the hospital it has to be restarted since he
is now back in the hospital . Which to me seems like a bunch of crap. Even though all the forms have been submitted and all the visits with their doctors have been done., he will now have to go back thru and have another doctor evaluation. And if that is not enough he was
told by the hospital that even though he is still in need of rehab , they can not locate a
facility that will take him reason being he has no insurance, and he is a extra big person.
Ok he is homeless so how can he get insurance. So they told him they were going to drop him off at the Union Gospel Mission in Chattanooga to sleep and then in the AM he would
have to go and hang out at the Salvation Army . Then the next night hopefully be able to
spend another night at the mission. Now this is a person that needs a walker, is on oxygen
and taking breathing treatment .
And if you can imagine it gets worse he has 2 grown kids. A son who is actually not
worth anything ( Meth head ) and a daughter who could care less until there is
something in it for her. Of course his daughter ( the mother of his only grandchild) would
prefer to let her estranged husband stay with her ( when he is not with his girlfriend)
then to show some respect for her father. I just can't understand how anyone could
treat their parents that way . I mean prefer to let them stay at a nasty shelter intstead of
taking them into their home regardless of how sorry then think he/she is .
FAMILY AND WORK | By Moodymom | 9:54 PM