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with diabteic foot wounds

What are you going to do? Can you go to an ER and after they look at your foot ask for a social worker to help you?

oh no! why?

what happend?

did your home get forclosed?

http://www.matchpoint.com/find/Housing- ... ancisco/CA

here is a list of shelters you can look into so you have someplace to stay.

Do you have family you can stay with until you can get a new place?

how are you blood sugars? are you taking insulin?

how are your wounda? you should look at your feet EVERY MORNING!! ! do you feel your feet? take good care of yourself, we need you!

kk CA has some good shelters i bet. you gotta push yourself into them and eventually you can even get section 8 housing or into transitional housing which is better than you can believe it.

all the best to you, man it's tough out there, i wish i lived in CA so i could go to the shelters with you and stick up for you. sorry you have to do it on your own, but hang in there.

perhaps you can get in touch with a fellow wp member from la who would let you stay with them untill you can apply for section 8.

By the way section 8 is free housing for people in need.

I'll pray for your life to get better.

maybe a fellow WP member from CA can drive to different shelters, show you around, get your foot seen in a free clinic - like health care for the homeless (i hate this word, i'm sorry. you'll always have a home at WP) or even the ER, see a social worker about applying for stuff like food stamps, housing, and medicaid. it is all great stuff and it is worth a try.

You got a car? Get one. Even if it means spending the last of your cash. If you have to be homeless, a car is a place out of the wind--and can be better than shelters.

i do not think this gentleman has the means to purchase a car

Treat the diabetic neuropathy at a free clinic (medication too); there's plenty of places for food/water. Find a nice place to rest when it's dark, carry a decent and hefty piece of short and tapered timber around (i.e., a club) in a folded up piece of cloth with another piece as a sling, and perhaps keep a journal of your day to day activities (it's fun).

Matches are cheap, take a stainless knife with you from where you are now, and kill animals with said club (solid hit to the head will do it); there's your food (clothes too). Do your best not to get any wounds.

You'll be fine, and you don't have to do anything illegal, other than perhaps killing animals for food if that's illegal where you are, but I doubt too many people would care about that.

I've done it around here, and it's easy enough; the diabetes might impede you though (that's something I don't know about).

I'm over 500 miles south of 'Frisco, but I've seen a few missions there on my way to Napa. Someone there will help, I'm sure.

Why? What happened? Where have you been living until now? In the past, how have you been getting treatment for the diabetes and the diagnosis for Asperger's? You must have been in somebody's system, somewhere.

I've always heard that shelters are dangerous, even for regular people. Aspies tend to be more naive, so I would think a shelter would be even more dangerous for us. Maybe a domestic abuse hotline would have a different kind of solution.

This group might know of a way to help you.
Disability Rights California
Toll Free 800.776.5746 / TTY 800.719.5798
http://www.pai-ca.org/index.htm

I've never used an Internet cafe. I guess that means we have no way of knowing when you will read this. In my town, the Library has public computers. If you go early in the day, I think they will be unoccupied.

I'm sending you a PM with my phone number. Call me collect if it helps to talk.

Last edited by Tahitiii on 13 Mar 2009, 7:14 am, edited 1 time in total.

To rent fleapit apartment for one month: $400, rent and deposit
To buy non-functioning or barely-functioning car: $200 or less

sheesh - good luck matey.
been there and know what it is like. (homelessness...not the diabetic foot wounds.)
please know there are some WP members who care about this kind of issue and problem.
you could sleep on my couch if i was not so far away. (Australia.) i mean that.

Last I knew, free housing did NOT exist, in the US, and section 8 pays only 80%!

yes try to get in touch with a nurse/social worker/counselor and see if you get something under Department of Mental Health