@zakwilliams Hi Zak, Condolences to your family on the anniversary of your dad's death. Thanks for your honesty. I'm 59, have had epilepsy since age 6. I lost decades of a fully productive life because it was legal to not sell health insurance to epileptics. -Michaela /1
2/ @zakwilliams With the advanced in science, I learned that my crushing depression and anxiety were part of the epileptic brain, and that it's not just seizures. When I watch drs and researchers on YT vida discuss epilepsy, co-occuring problems, I've tears on my face.-Michaela
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3/ @zakwilliams It takes between 3-20 yrs to be approved for Social Security disability. California, my native state, needs to kick it in gear and provide medically disabled people with income, who aren't working. -Michaela
4/ @zakwilliams A shocked Englishman wrote me recently on Twitter that he was shocked that I was on yr 3 of sleeping in my car. No services. No disability income. Former paralegal. A's college. 59. No smoking, drinking, drugs or crimes. Shelters hell holes. -Michaela
5/ @zakwilliams The Englishman said that it's unlawful there to discharge a medically disabled person from the hospital without putting them on disability income, housing, and other services. California needs to change our policies, support people as they get batter. -Michaela
So I took an action step today and emailed @MayorJerryDyer about getting a motel room for me in north Fresno, CA. I heard back from a city assistant: no motel vouchers. I'm 59, with epilepsy, 3rd yr in car. No drugs, drinking, crimes. -Michaela cc: @Jason_Elliott@SecFudge
2/ The woman from the @CityofFresno emailed me that I could stay in Fresno's shelters, a hell on earth which I've already done, and I will NOT be returning to those unaudited hell holes. -Michaela
3/ @SecFudge@Jason_Elliott@MayorJerryDyer@Esmeralda_Soria I've epilepsy. 59. Since age 6. Complications from epilepsy. I've ALREADY been in the hospital! I don't have a broken moral compass! I don't need hand holding and told what to do. I need a safe place to live! -Michaela
Friends: I am down to 3 bars of gas in my small car. No coffee $. No food $. I'm homeless, age 59, due to life-long epilepsy and other neurological conditions from it. The government takes YRS to grant benefits! Could anyone PayPal me $ for basic needs for the day? Thank you.
2/ Me: No drugs, alcohol, or crimes. Just epilepsy since age 6, and other neurological problems from it, which are quite serious. Our government decides to take yrs and play games with peoples' health. It takes YRS to get benefits, housing. Outrageous.
Thanks @danielbowmanjr for enough $ to get coffee, some food, and some gas until tomorrow. I just saw a mentally ill homeless man sifting thru a dumpster looking for food. He is young. Black clothes. Very hot here. I will try to find him. Feed. I want to cry at what gov does.