We have a 27 year old client who was abandoned by his momma when he was very young. He has cerebral palsy, intellectual disabilities and juvenile diabetes. Recently we moved him in with a family that has a foster care home for adults with disabilities. They are very caring and nurturing. He was so happy [...]
We are looking for a donation of office space for our San Antonio office. We plan to move our office there in just a few weeks. Do you know anyone in San Antonio who might help us out?
There was no way to know if she understood what we were saying when we first met her. She could not talk – could not tell us what was wrong or what she wanted or needed. There was a look of fear in her eyes that I will never forget. She was panicked – stumbling [...]
I went to see an elderly widow who was sitting on concrete steps outside her house. She was crying and she had pulled out almost all of her hair. There were ants crawling all over her. She couldn’t remember when she had eaten last or when she had taken her medicine. She just kept [...]
Ann was visiting one of her favorite guardianship clients, when she decided to ask, “What would you like more than anything in the world? Mary said, “I’d like to see my sister once more before I die.” Working this out was a challenge since her sister lived in a nursing home several hours away and [...]
You could barely see her house from the road. She had not eaten a real meal in years. Her plumbing didn’t work. It had been several years since she had been able to cook or bathe. She was afraid to let anyone know she needed help so she withdrew inside her house and little problems [...]
We told one of our elderly guardianship clients that we never show anyone their pictures to protect them and to insure confidentiality. She gave us this picture and said, “Show this. No one will know it’s me.”
He was a vet. His family had locked him in a shed behind his house for years. He might have died in that shed, but one of his family members got mad at him and split his head open with a hoe. The family took him to the emergency room. Police told us later they [...]
I received a call from Adult Protective Services in a neighboring county. “I know you don’t serve our county, but we have an elderly lady who is starving to death. There is no one else to take care of her. I’ll understand if you can’t help.”
In our first year at Friends for Life, we were asked to be the legal guardian for a man who had been found unconscious on a railroad track. He was living in a shed about the size of my office (which was pretty tiny).