5 Great Things That Have Happened for Bernie Sanders Since He Announced

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24. My mother...

...is only 68 and in a nursing home because of permanent brain damage from malnutrition. She is in a Medicaid facility. She is mentally ill and an alcoholic. Without getting into deep detail about why I was unable to personally successfully intervene until the situation became so extreme that she had to be hospitalized, I will say that I informed Florida Adult Protective Services that she was in danger. I told them that she was incompetent and mentally ill. I told them that if sent her money, she would spend it on cigarettes and alcohol. I told them that I did not have the resources to bring her into my home, where I do believe she would be a danger to my son and to my own mental health. I told them she had no life skills and needed professional intervention. They visited her, interviewed her on her front porch for about 10 minutes and closed the case. A year after that I flew out to Florida to find her hours away from death, unable to move and literally rotting in her own waste. She is now living in a nursing home with the kind of physical and mental health support she needs, but brain damage from malnutrition due to her "failure to thrive" as they say, is permanent.