Medical

This has been such an ongoing battle that it utterly disgusts me knowing prisoners have ZERO control over their needs. I'm not talking personal needs, I'm talking MEDICAL. Something so crucial to their overall wellbeing.

Since John entered the system in March it has been an uphill battle trying to get his medical needs under control. I've called countless times to the actual prison and sent emails to the ODRC. I've spoken to medical staff, case workers, and lieutenants to make sure John receives medical. Let me remind you. John has had a heartache at 32, diagnosed with an enlarged aortic valve, a stroke three months after his attack, PTSD/depression, and back surgery for slipped discs. A very unhealthy man.

He requires a CPAP machine to sleep, and heart medicine to survive. Yet, here we are a year into prison, and he just recently got his CPAP machine. They quit giving him his mental health meds, have switched his heart meds, and will not give him his blood pressure medication.

I have sent over my medical POA, knowing it wasn't going to matter in the prison realm but hoping it would make a small difference. We are 10 months in and John hasn't received MINIMAL medical care. Yet, hold up... The prison he is in recently WON an AWARD for saving money in their medical department! Yet at what cost?

John only received his CPAP machine when his Attorney called in and requested it. When I called the Attorney (months ago) asking them to call ODRC about his medication I was told "this isn't something we typically do but I'll see what can be done". Either they didn't make the call, or they did, and the prison didn't respond. John is on month two with NO medication.

Anyone want to take a wager on how long his heart has before it goes? My guess is July. He has approximately five months until his heart fully gives. Anyone??

In a perfect world I would open a business and have several staff working to where all we do is take complaints and concerns from inmates and their families. We'd call the prison and the ODRC to advocate on their behalf until their medical needs were met. In a perfect world, this would be a dream.

You know what's really crazy. Our tax dollars help pay for the medical that these inmates don't receive. So, where exactly are our tax dollars going? Makes you think, huh?

I guess I'll wait until ODRC and NCI kill my LO. Without medical, he won't last 18-life.

Isaiah 53:5 

"A man of great pain and familiar with sickness; a man of suffering who knew what sickness was".

This is what depression looks like. Two years of suffering.