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...Regarding the skimpy/bed clothing I came here in, I should correct myself. I found it, it was not thrown away.
However, the question.remains regarding the things which were firmly packed in on a but left at the rehab when the bringing me to the hospital people lied too me about tackling the on a here - And the hospital, here, refused to send anyone back to get them .
I kind of thought that the rehab place was encouraging me to go to the hospital - Did I mention that? - because they wanted to be rid of me.
Will my possessions be tossed after a week?
BTW, I think people here greatly overestimated; to say this in another way, what the rehab's social worker might do for me. A very large percentage of people are people in wheelchairs! Furthermore, a noticavle.amount of folk (not just that roommate I've mentioned) have dementia%mental softness, anyway. I think the " social worker " might be more an " ombudsmen " for a place of that type - Not so much?? a person looking for berths elsewhere.

...FTM, I think people there would nots me going around on two feet (albeit with a crutch) there, and, contrasting me with majoritg?? there in wheelchairs, think of me as quite healthy - Though tbey did Bri g up my going to l'hopital, so...I acck owlexged that my trying to lead a more independent life there rather messes with their system, but I had to try to lead some sort of life of my own ...
I guess I come across as homeless, a nurse was asking me if I sleep on a tent on the ground or a
park bench with my feet hanging down ...
As far as getting anything done with caretakwrs/social workers here, I think I might possibly get more dome with the people in the combined. Homeless Services Center and Homkess medical Project )different parts of the same campus), which I haven't gone to all that much in my time back here ...

The 7-day hold rule means if you are gone more than 7 days from the rehab they will give your bed to someone else and you won't be staying there anymore.

And the ambulance people are not paid to transport your belongings to the hospital, only you.

...Because I' m just garbage and should expect any- and everything I own to be thrown out at any time, right?
That aside, I suppose at this time I might still be at the rehab even if I'm here past a week ?





niel"]The 7-day hold rule means if you are gone more than 7 days from the rehab they will give your bed to someone else and you won't be staying there anymore.

And the ambulance people are not paid to transport your belongings to the hospital, only you.[/quote]

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No, but sometimes you have see if someone is willing to make exceptions to the rules, for example, give the facility a call and being very polite, ask to speak to someone about your stuff and say "I'm hung up in here in the hospital and I expect them to discharge me in X days. I would really appreciate it if you guys can hold my belongings a little longer so I can come pick them up when I'm well enough. It would really mean a lot to me because I don't have any friends or family who can pick them up for me while I'm here."

If you are nice enough, they might even find someone to bring you your stuff. Are you at a catholic hospital? Maybe you can ask to speak to the priest or a volunteer with the church and they can help you out.

Also, maybe my impression is incorrect, but in a few posts, I see you've become upset with people who have tried to help you because they did not help you enough or were unsuccessful at helping you to your liking. That needs to stop or people won't want to even attempt to help you anymore. They are trying to do you a favor, it's not an entitlement of yours.

...I asked about the hospital getting the past and they said they wouldn't do it, they refused to...Ince again someone here is greatly overestimating how much help an authority figure wiill be, even as I am told what an evil bastard I am for looking for help from somebody else .

...I'll comment more on some thing said about me in another line.
Aunt Blabby said that I (like him, but worse) had frontal lobe problems, and the attention span of a gnat.
Perhaps so. AB and I have never met, although we've written, including off-WP, to each other and phonecalled. I'd thought I sometimes get obsessively fixed on things, which would seem to be an excessive attention span, but also I get caught up in little rituals/secondary things before doing things, which could be seen as an attention span problem
Perhaps at least some of it is the effect of the anti-psycotics the P-IC forced me to take, as I say in my sig .
People don't seem to understand how handicapped my physical condition makes me , how it slows me down.
Other people were attacking me because of my requests for help, saying I was asking for personal addresses - I was not, and a person could work with someone without giving them their street address, anyway - Although, also, I come from the old fanzine/ comic book letter column era, when people let their addresses be printed.
I still don't totally understand why so many were determined that I wasn't to have help in trying to guide those.pictures/memoribilia n
to a safe port, not permanently pay for them, just get them away from NYS and toward me. It's literally, I believe, ALL of the p/m of my family and past I can ever hope to have , some ones I had out here were lost many years ago - It's all I could, really, ever hope to have of my younger days and (sometimes) happier memories - But I was I was, in fact, told by some how great it would be when those were thrown away too .

Okay, well it seems that what you want isn't going to happen (help from anyone here), so you have to focus more on the reality of the situation and stop posting for someone to do things for you. It's just frustrating for you.

...Returning to the heading subject of this, when I was weighed to-day, I came off as 320 pounds!! !! !! !! !! ! This is losing no weight AT ALL, despite having been exclusively in the hospital, eating only their good, these last days. This could be a crisis! My scrotum/genitalia is very swollen ...
It is possible that the " weighing-me-in-bed " method that I was weighed with was inaccurate, registering things on the bed. One could hope so .

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No one was determined for you not to have any help with logistics of arranging for a parcel to be shipped/stored. Hell, if you had detailed information & knew how large the package was, where it was, where it was to be sent, AND could pay for it & all related costs I'd make the phone call myself and have it all done in 10mins. But you weren't asking for Help to arrange those things. You were asking for others to PAY FOR those things for you. Whether document scanning fees, postage/shipping, storage fees or someone's own personal storage space that they pay their $ for.. etc - you claim you were asking for non-monetary help (which even I would give freely!) yet in the end what you really wanted/hoped for/expected was for someone else on these forums to pay the costs for all of those things & that simply is not any of our responsibilities to pay for. Further, you have no definitive timeline, so it wouldn't be a one off handout to pay for shipping - it would be a commitment to pay for storage, or take up space, for potentially the rest of your life. Your situation isn't fun or enviable, but it's unreasonable to expect any of us to pay those expenses on your behalf.

I didn't say it would be great if they were thrown away. I said it was very freeing not to be attached to material objects.

Anyways, you've still never ever found out and disclosed how much stuff or how great of cost. If we're talking about a pallet that costs $300 to ship and $100/month to store, well, obviously no one here is going to give you that sort of handout. (It IS a handout you are asking for, not help, let's be clear about that.) But, if it's an envelope that will cost $8 to have dropped in the mail and sent directly to you but you simply have no way of converting your disability income into the ability to transfer $8 over to the lawyer's office to pay for postage on an envelope, well then that's an entirely different story all together. Even I would offer up the $8 as a one time handout to get an envelope of pics on it's way directly to you and then you can carry them around with you.

So, really, in 30+ pages you never provided enough information for anyone to Truly decide whether to give you a handout or not, IMO. But based on the information provided, we're very likely talking about a lot more $ than $8 & ongoing expenses of paying for storage etc - in which case, you're best to EITHER figure out how to pay for what you want yourself, OR let go of the thought of being reunited with your brother's stuff. To be sure, though, you really should follow up with the lawyer and find out. What IF it's less than $10 you're actually in need of sending over there? Probably not, but at least following up you'll find out IF it's hundreds of dollars + storage expenses etc and then you can breathe a sigh of relief and just say "Ah well, f**k it. Let it go.. it's just stuff, I have my memories and no one can take them from me."

I...I really don't want to talk to you, Aspiring Accountant, but I have asked folks back East the size of the. stuff and they have not given that information (and I think I said that) it to me! Furthermore, I think may have even said here that, the East Coast person appears willing to pay the transportation!
You can't understand what it's like, but I have NO mementos ...Woyld-be Burning Man " let's burn everything and feel superior about it cuz I have lots stuff ".
f**k you, dude.

...I am back at the rehab place now, they rather abruptly discharged me from the hospihospital - It Is cozier here, but it seems that, as I stated above, the hospital had made no progress on my weight, I don't know if I'm still 320 , I haven't been able to be weighed since I was back here ...

Please explain how you would ship your stuff to someone without getting their name and address.

...If it was a different address from where they lived, they need not give me their home address.
I have something far more immediately important now ! which is...







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Please explain how you would ship your stuff to someone without getting their name and address.[/quote]

I wish you could find out how much stuff there is. This would solve many problems.

I agree that you have to make sure you get your SSDI money.

Has the rehab place said anything about getting you more permanent housing once you leave the rehab place?

How could someone receive your stuff if it was sent somewhere else?