SOS---SOS---SOS !...Popping flares and sending out distress messages. We hit several snags and cannot undo the mess in time ! Were going down by the stern and cant do a thing about it. ...D-Day minus 36 hours. Whats more, Bob F. U.S. Navy veteran just may loose his entire household of everything he owns if SW WRAP Inc. does not get those movers out here like they said they would today. Ive already gone to the media and dropped off my written reports and making pleas. Thus far, nobody has called back or got back with us to tell us if they are going to publicize this fiasco...even that isnt looking very promising. Cant stop the eviction on Bob Fs month to month lease. Theyre going to force Bob F out and we can do nothing to stop it....except leave...or the Sheriff will force the issue......I cant let it get to that....itll rip and tear poor ol Bob up. I gotta find a spot somewhere where his chair or him wont get wet because water will destroy his electronic mobility chair. New reading on his weight, 439.7, hes under the 450 lb threshold. I looked him over and he has a red rash under a fold on his right side. That will have to be attended to. No other signs of bedsore problems. I dont know if the YMCA will let me take him there as my guest during the day but at night were out at Holiday Park near the Big Boy engine under the pavilion. Ill be alongside with my pickup bed loaded only with essentials for him. Hopefully Ill be able to find a hot outlet around there so he can re-charge his chair. Ill bring my portable battery and extension cords, etc. to recharge his cell phone, etc. For myself, Ill have to equip the back bed of the truck so I can sleep in it while Bob F. is homeless and settin outside in the dark. Now just imagine the dilemma if he was forced out in the middle of winter. Cant blame Bob for it either. Ive already explained why. This weekend into Monday, our last ditch stand. I have no idea where this is going next. ~ June 26th At this writing there has been a real awful setback to Robert Fredericksons transfer to Cheyenne Healthcare Assisted Living. If there is anyone I have ever met or known that needs to go in to assisted living...its him. That man can do almost nothing on his own besides carry on a conversation and feed himself. Dementia comes and goes and comes back like a shadow. There isnt a day that passes that somebody has got to be with him helping him manage his affairs. He cannot pre-plan, manage his healthcare, make appointments, keep appointments without prompting. Short term memory all but gone and has difficulty remembering my name....etc. etc. etc. His wife and daughter are deceased and his son in law can do nothing with him. He has no family, anymore........Im all hes got. I prize myself at being a fairly good resourceful person but THIS has me confounded, among other social workers stumped as well. Bob presents with so many obstacles and barriers to his treatment that he has effectively, through hardly any intended acts of his own, all but shut down the very best efforts of just about ALL the agencies here in Cheyenne designed to bring aid and relief to him (and his kind of folks). That man needs a guardian in the worst way and the staff at SW WRAP INC. are now starting to see this. Id been telling them as much from day #1. As his power of attorney I can only do so much with him. The eviction clock is still running and were about outa time. As of today were nowhere closer to getting him out of the apartment hes being evicted from and transferred then we were at day #1. June 30 at 5 PM he is to be gone from here. One facility wont take him and the other is doing anything at can to keep from having to take him using any ruse in the book to do so, including bald-face lying to my face.......that was a mistake and theyll pay dearly for it....in a court of law and public opinion. Were going to the media with it today....dropping names, titles, places and faces. Unbelievable. Ok, hes 68 years old, the guy weighs 427 lbs and make no mistake about it, he is very high maintenance. It takes blocks and tackle to move him around and get him out of his chair and into bed and back into his chair. His toileting needs are a project in itself. Legs below his knees, purple, swollen as big as telephone poles. Cant walk a single step. Hes gone through one large mobile electric chair, burnt the motor right out of it in a short period of time and is well on his way to going through the one hes got now. Taking it and him to Physical Therapy clinic today at the VA to get him out of the chair so a technician can work on it. It failed on him last Sunday for which I wrote a report of. There I will have him weighed to determine just how much he really does weigh. I need proof and documentation of the figures. If he gains up to 450 lbs...nobody in Cheyenne will take him due to the inability to pick him up off the floor should he fall. As long as he remains in his chair he runs the risk of bedsores, infection, septic shock......and death. Lord have mercy, I really know how to pick em. But, really, this just fell in my lap all of a sudden like and Im the only person who will have anything to do with him out here in this complex. The admissions people at Cheyenne Healthcare are saying that Bobs Dept. of Education garnishment prevents his admission. He has to have it deferred or dismissed before he can come in, in other words, they want his whole SSI payments minus the $50.00 they would allow him each month. They claim they did not know he had a garnishment or they would have refused him earlier on. BUT, Robert and a friend of his, guy name of Jim says they DID know all about it the last time he was a patient there and he was told by social workers there at Cheyenne Healthcare that they would get right on it........NO, they did NOT. They did NOTHING back then (maybe a year or so ago).....nevertheless, they wont admit him. Plan B is to try to find a motel room to hold him and transfer his nursing care there, etc. to continue his care until the folks at SW WRAP can unMUCK this mess for which we have no idea how long that will take. Were dealing with the Dept. of Education and Social Security....S I G H. Plan C is to dig in, stay right there in his apartment after the eviction date and go to court over it. If nothing else, itll buy him a little time in place. He cant leave the apartment at all after that or management WILL change the locks on him in a New York second. Plan D is for him to leave and Ill have to attend him, each day, throughout a period of his homelessness and try to keep him out of the weather, the heat, somewhere near a toilet he can use.....most of them, he cannot use. Even throwing a tarp over him when it starts raining. Come into the YMCA as my guest and keep him outa the heat of summer. At night, go park him and me and my truck out in Lincoln Park and keep an eye on him. I dont know what else to do. I cant leave him, not until specifically ordered to by a military officer. Soldiers and veterans cant leave wounded, hurt or dead personnel in the field, you just dont do it and you cant quit or give up or admit defeat. Why me ?...........LOL........why not. ....what a mess.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 13:48:58 +0000
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