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The time has come. I always knew it would. Being raised a forever-giving, forever-guilty Catholic, I HAD to learn to be okay with saying this: I need to prioritize my family. I remember it like it was yesterday. More than eight years ago, I was standing in a dark parking lot after an advocacy meeting,…
He Was Fifty. She Put On Cartoons.
From the outside, it probably looked like kindness. A man who doesn’t speak is lying in a hospital bed. A nurse turns on the TV, finds a children’s cartoon, and leaves it playing. Something gentle and bright to pass the time. My brother was fifty years old. When I asked the nurse why she had…
Two Buckets, One Person: What Happens When Systems Don’t Fit
I met a person with IDD while working in behavioral health. They were in acute crisis stabilization — the kind of admission that’s supposed to be short, contained, focused on getting someone safe enough to leave. But this person was incredibly anxious about discharge. Not about being in crisis. About leaving. They were going back…
If you’re on SSI or SSDI you get free healthcare BUT often you have to wait even longer to get authorizations in some cases. Even though social security is a federal agency the state doles out the medical insurance. In California it was called Medical-Cal.
For those that believe the agencies are consistent.. good luck.