Social Services. At every social service, I was given a big hug. NW Justice Project. This Attorney spent a good deal of time with me regarding Nick’s bankruptcy. Together we called the mortgage where I was given a realtionship manager. HEALTH POINT $25.00 a visit provides primary medical and dental care and pharmacy services, and naturopathic and behavioral health care a visit, or you can pay next time, which I was very thankful for.
HIV/AIDS TESTING I still had insurance, so my Attorney recommended getting an Aids test. Wow, that was another humiliation, but a relief that it was all negative. 24-HOUR CRISIS LINE provides immediate help to individuals, families, and friends of people in emotional crisis. HOPELINK I went there to help me with my electric power bill. It had gotten up to $700. They had a program for energy assistance. SALVATION ARMY was the last social service I visited. And when I finally had to succumb to going to the Salvation Army. The first thing they did was hand me a sack of groceries. No fruit or vegetables it was all boxed canned or bread.
When you have to fill your refrigerator and freezer with glass jars full of water because its computer makes it shut down if there is not enough food in the refrigerator. To then wake up one day and have to ask the neighbor for $6.00 to buy gas to get to a minimum wage job. The neighbor not knowing that I had no food or toilet paper.
Toliet paper! OMG, I would have hated to live in the Middle ages. Bad enough, no toilet paper, ever worst would be without conditioner for your hair. I would be one of those hunchback, toothless, hair pointing all directions in one big fuzzball on top of my head.
And I believe because it was the great recession. When I would call the credit card or student loan and worst of all the mortgage. I would beg for more time more ways than I could come up with the money. Instead of sending me directly to collection I would find a voice on the other end of the phone where they too had a runaway spouse or there child was an addict.