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• Buzzardbilly asks: Dear Malach, Oh, The Cure will get in. How could they not?  Yeah you would think so, but this band, whose first release was in 1978, has NEVER EVEN BEEN NOMINATED!  What a travesty.

More fun times with clients . .
So, this was a fun day at work.  Firstly, the client I talked about a few days ago, we are putting him into our Domestic Violence Homelessness program, he should be in before Dec 1st.  Good news there, now I just got to get the time to recover his stuff.

So today, I met with a client that my brother, fellow co-workers, and legal services has been trying to get me together with for a month now.  FInally did.  This woman is bi-polar, and spend a lot of time in psychiatric hospitals.  Her landlord is trying to evict her, stating she is absolutely nuts.  She is also a former crack addict.  So, she just returned from a stay at a hospital and I set up to meet her today.

So I walk into her apartment, and it is a complete disaster area.  Broken walls, kicked down doors, smashed dishes, paper and clothes all over the place, it looked like the place had gotten robbed.  The client was their and she proceed to tell me how he landlord wants her out so bad, he came in while she was in the hospital and destroyed her apartment.  I told her to call the cops right now, she refused saying all the cops ever do is beat her up and put her away on a Section 12.  That was my first warning.

There is a huge part of the ceiling torn down, which she claimed was from water damage, of course, there were no water stains.  Huge chunks of plaster have been ripped down in the bedroom, and along with a door smashed of it’s hinges.  Of course there was a plaster ridden hammer in the room on her bureau.  The final thing that sent off the red flags was her TV.  It was pretty new, flatscreen, and a hole had been poked forcefully through the screen, and hole just big enough to fit her cane tip.

Yeah, so I knew I dealing with a looney.  I am good with those.  So, I agree with her, take her to my Fall River office, and we sit down and talk.  Seems her past living situations, have all turned out like this too.  What to do, what to do?  We will see on this one.  We are referring her to our women’s SRO.  Why do I have a feeling I am going to follow this mess around for the next few years.

So, I get back to my office, and sitting in one of the basic needs advocates offices for the past 3 hours is another bi-polar homeless woman.  Malach sits with her, get’s her back to reality, she wants us to kill her.  That is enough for me, I convince her she would be best served taking a taxi over to the crisis center.  It took a while, but she voluntarily went.  What fun!

And of course, I ended my day, with one of my favorite clients.  She is living in one of our Scattered Sight Homeless Apartments.  Beautiful 34 year old with a past history of alcoholism and drug abuse and mental health issues.  She has really done and awesome job builder her life back up the past couple of years. 

The past few months have been tough.  Her 55 year old mother who has HIV, had a stroke, is starting to suffer from dementia, but was recovering and living with her daughter in the apartment in our program.  She was taking care of Mom as she recovered, and both were doing pretty well.  Last month her mother had another major stroke, and had a hard time recovering from it, on top of it, because of her weakened state, the HIV has turned into AIDS, and she is having uncontrolable seizures.

I am going to start working with her weekly to help her through this, I don’t want to see her back where she was 5 years ago.  Breaks my heart.

Nice
So, yeah, the New Bedford Police take this stuff seriously . .  here is the video, warnng, lots of use of the F-Word, and the rap really sucks too . .

Yeah, don’t quit your day job, if you got one.  It is funny, all the locales are place I drive by everyday, and PO Judy Young is a very reasonable woman too.  Hey Murk!  What say me and you redo this one?  We could he HILARIOUS!  Ahh, typical New Bedford idiots.

I got your F’n Volcano Right HERE!
BOOOM!

Malach’s Video of the Day

I am Malach, hey Murk, let’s combine the above video, with the Anti-NB Police one!