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kerry-is-my-prez

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Sat Sep 16, 2017, 09:03 PM Sep 2017

Got power back last night in Fl. Still no Rachel M. [View all]

Must get my cable back. I still know of many people, including my 88yr old mom who still don't have power. I called 911 and had her sent to the hospital because she was so out of it and had a bedsore- despite having 2 aides coming in 3 times per day, a nurse from hospice a few times a week. Hospice was trying to blame it on our family saying they were going to call DCF. Just wish I could borrow a generator so she could at least have some fans and a refrig. The hospital would not keep her and hospice says they don't have enough room in their facilities.

At the hospital, they said that there were a lots of people sending elderly family members in because they have no a/c or power but that they would send them home if there wasn't anything that wrong with them despite it being a dangerous environment as far as I'm concerned. Being in 85 degree heat in a house for days in end is just awful.

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