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(44,397 posts) Wed May 13, 2015, 09:35 PM May 2015

ELDERLY CANCER PATIENT CALLS 911 BECAUSE HE HAS NO FOOD [View all]

Source: abc1@

When 81-year-old Clarence Blackmon returned home Tuesday after spending months in the hospital for cancer treatments and rehab, his refrigerator was empty.

He had nothing to eat and no way to get to the store. Hungry and desperate, he called 911. He asked the operator if someone could go to the store for him and buy some groceries.

He told the operator whatever she could do would help.

"I can't do anything. I can't go anywhere. I can't get out of my damn chair," Blackmon said in his 911 call.

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Blackmon told Hinson that all he wanted was a head of cabbage, some cans of beans and beets, some popcorn, tomato juice, and soft drinks.

Read more: http://abc11.com/society/elderly-cancer-patient-calls-911-because-he-has-no-food-/718448/

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ELDERLY CANCER PATIENT CALLS 911 BECAUSE HE HAS NO FOOD [View all] Liberal_in_LA May 2015 OP

Just so sad marym625 May 2015 #1

delivery of the food Liberal_in_LA May 2015 #7

look at that frail little man. He used to be a child who roguevalley May 2015 #12

It made me mad and then I cried. 840high May 2015 #15

I could not even get mad, I just cried, 840high. nt sheshe2 May 2015 #41

... 840high May 2015 #48

Thank you for the pictures marym625 May 2015 #20

Most, if not all hospitals do have such social serivce workers. Hoppy May 2015 #69

Would like to know marym625 May 2015 #70

welcome to third way dem and demented repug America roguevalley May 2015 #11

I don't like it here marym625 May 2015 #23

America, Fuck Yeah! nt onehandle May 2015 #2

He was in a hospital for months...he was 81...he had to have a social worker of some kind. Not libdem4life May 2015 #3

actually, my niece is a nurse. This is normal. roguevalley May 2015 #14

Every hospital I have been in or near has to have an exit plan. Someone took him home. libdem4life May 2015 #24

Every so often the LA Times prints another granny-dumping story from Skid Row, no less Hekate May 2015 #45

Even on Skid Row, people come down and try to help. You can't help someone who doesn't want libdem4life May 2015 #49

In my experience dealing with older relatives, the discharge plan kicks in Lydia Leftcoast May 2015 #56

Sent home...means they have a home and someone like a relative takes them? libdem4life May 2015 #58

You must be thinking of some civilized country, not America. I guess you haven't valerief May 2015 #57

Definitely not Aerows May 2015 #64

No, it's not normal. Hospitals are supposed to have social workers who plan for after-care. pnwmom May 2015 #34

In what state is that normal? procon May 2015 #59

See post 49 Jesus Malverde May 2015 #63

My parents are in their mid eighties.They do have home nurses and physical therapists visit but my 1monster May 2015 #16

Every hospital has a hospital social worker. We are talking about a dismissal, not home health libdem4life May 2015 #26

Social workers don't grow on trees, but they work in hospitals, pnwmom May 2015 #35

Believe me - it happens. 840high May 2015 #21

Please tell me how it happens. libdem4life May 2015 #27

watch michael moore's "sicko" niyad May 2015 #30

As I said, if the hospital did not authorize an exit plan, I'd have my attorney over there post libdem4life May 2015 #38

here - one example 840high May 2015 #33

This man was over 65, which makes him eligible for a host of services unavailable, pnwmom May 2015 #36

Sorry, I can't make out what you wrote. libdem4life May 2015 #39

My apology - quick copy and paste. 840high May 2015 #47

Sometimes it takes a while for services to start Warpy May 2015 #60

That's what he gets for getting cancer and being too onecaliberal May 2015 #4

Heartbreaking. KarenS May 2015 #5

I worked the Omaha Police Dept front desk the last couple years of my career Omaha Steve May 2015 #6

glad to hear that people care Liberal_in_LA May 2015 #13

you rock, Steve nt steve2470 May 2015 #43

Tell me again SCVDem May 2015 #8

There is a number at the link to call the PD if you can help. leftofcool May 2015 #9

Try 211.... Spitfire of ATJ May 2015 #10

what the hell....that human has NO FOOD>>>>WTF? irisblue May 2015 #17

I hope that someone can help him apply for meals on wheels. totodeinhere May 2015 #18

I was thinking that also Archae May 2015 #40

if we help him, then what incentive will cancer patients have to cure themselves? whereisjustice May 2015 #19

Ouch. So fu@king true. R. Daneel Olivaw May 2015 #46

Before a patient is discharged LibDemAlways May 2015 #22

and there are idiots that would call him a 'taker'...fuck them all SummerSnow May 2015 #25

The hospital needs to be sued...he'd win. They have legal liability for releasing him without an libdem4life May 2015 #28

watch "sicko" and then tell us about him winning a suit. niyad May 2015 #32

I've never heard of a hospital that doesn't plan for after-care and would release any patient, pnwmom May 2015 #29

bless that dispatcher and those who helped. and damnation to whoever just dumped him at home niyad May 2015 #31

Someday.... Boomer May 2015 #37

I also will add that if he lacking emotional or intellectual skills, the social worker libdem4life May 2015 #42

we live in a christian nation. our resources go to the military industrial complex. tough luck nt msongs May 2015 #44

No, we do NOT live in a Christian nation. Chef Eric May 2015 #53

I dream of, one day, awoke_in_2003 May 2015 #50

This is what happens when you let tens of millions of people fall into poverty or near poverty jtuck004 May 2015 #51

This is what is wrong, very wrong with our healthcare system. And those Repugs want to cut Medicaid YOHABLO May 2015 #52

K & R. Can't write anything now about this ugly, cruel country. Poor, dear man. appalachiablue May 2015 #54

*** Follow-up article with more info as to how this happened... SaveOurDemocracy May 2015 #55

thx for more details Liberal_in_LA May 2015 #72

Wonder if they have meals on wheels? That program delivers hot meals to shut-ins and keeps an jwirr May 2015 #61

A for profit privatized health care system failure. herding cats May 2015 #62

Blatant Example of a Dysfunctional Nation Aerows May 2015 #65

I can see this happening dembotoz May 2015 #66

News rarely makes me cry. This was the exception. Vinca May 2015 #67

If he didn't have a phone...... Sunlei May 2015 #68

If you can't add to corporate profits anymore, no more pudding. harun May 2015 #71