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A Tour of Hope for the No Longer Homeless

My future was looking brighter than it had looked in a very long time.  After six long months, I was getting ready to leave Hell-Crest Commons, the nursing home I’d been imprisoned in.

Side By Side, where my mom, Anna (the contact my friend Laura’s social worker friend had given me) and I were interviewing with Chrissy (the nurse manager)seemed like it would be the perfect fit for me.  Especially because Anna was getting me the special PCA (personal care aides) services that MassHealth (Medicaid) provided to help take care of me and help me function and be more independent without needing to rely on my parents for everything.

My mom was discussing rent and pricing with Chrissy and Anna.  Chrissy was saying that normally the apartment was $1000 a month, but because I didn’t eat anything she would bring it down to $900 a month.  That didn’t seem quite … Find Out What Happens Next

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Is a Homeless Shelter Really an Acceptable Discharge Place?

As time went on at Hell-Crest Commons, the nursing home I’d been living in since July of 2015 I was slowly settling in. I would work on classes for college online (I was only a couple classes short of graduating with a degree in Professional Writing Studies and a GPA of 3.98 from Elms College), I would go to some of the activities groups, I had gained privileges to wheel myself around the grounds of the nursing home by myself and I would go to the coffee shop and chat with various visitors, people from my unit that I met down there, and people from other units.  Some days I would go down to the lobby to sit on the couch and read or work on a personal writing project or make personal phone calls to friends from Facebook or family.

Jillian, the nurse practitioner in charge of my care … Find Out What Happens Next

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