sign in my supermarket: 43 million people going hungry in US, including 13 million children

[Heddi]

17. we figured it out and one of my patients

has $0.86 to spend per meal

because she's in the donut hole, she can't afford her insulin, meds, so she cuts everything into 1/4ths and only takes insulin every 3rd day. Her family routinely steals her insulin and sells it on the street for drug money (they sell anything that isn't bolted down).

She has to eat:
low fat
low carb
low protein
low salt
low fiber

she has no legs so can't walk
is dependent upon her family to feed her
has maxed out her benefits through meals on wheels and benephilly and Manna.
her family - the ones who aren't drug addicts, have a series of cognitive and developmental delays. The last time they tried cooking they set the kitchen on fire so the other family members removed the oven. So she had a microwave that stopped working. Her fridge doesn't work, either.

Her meals are typically

Breakfast:
Doritos or other chips.
or
A hoagie
or
Someone's left overs

Lunch:
what she didn't eat for breakfast
or
nothing

Dinner:
what she didn't eat for breakfast
or
hoagie
or
a bag of chips
or
a candy bar

we've called APS, but because she has capacity to make decisions on her own, it is not against the law for an elderly lady to eat the equivalent of 2 snack pack bags of chips in 24 hours having kidney failure, heart failure, diabetes, multiple open wounds, and other medical concerns.

she's just one of about 700 patients that have similar (thought not nearly as bad) issues.

Then there's the man with the open wounds, active maggots....