My Friends Its Great To Be Back with You Today….. I Have been working a lot on Gun Violence and Healthcare in America…. And One Key Part of Healthcare is Home Care…. Yes Home Care  ….

What Is Home Care ? Why Is It Important ? Can It Help Me or My Family ?

I will Attempt to Answer These Three important questions in this blog…. With Examples of Why it’s so important….

Home Care Is Medical Care or Assitance Medically received in The Home Not An Institution or Nursing Facility…. Services Such As Physical Therapy Occupational and Speech Therapy…Bathing , Cooking ,Grooming ,Laundry ,and Cleaning of Your Home…, In Short if You Are Elderly or Disabled You Can Qualify for these services…. Through Medicaid and A HCBS HOME and Community Based Servies Waiver… Funded Through Your State and Federal Medicaid Program

Why Is This Important

Many Seniors and Disabled Need Help Now …..They Face A Lousy Choice To Struggle to Live Independently or Go Into A Nursing or Assisted Living Facility…. The reason is MANY need help with basic care described above …. Offered by Home Care…However Wait Lists Are Too Long and Take Years Sometimes to Get Services Neeeded Immediately…. Communities benefit in Two ways From Home Care…….      Jobs Created By Being An Aide To The Disabled and Elderly …..Plus Money Spent By The Patient and Aides stays in the area ….Plus Family members can care better for them with help for Senior and Disabled Relatives…. Giving Them A Caring Safe Enviormnment in Their Own Homes…. And Many Can Still live independently in Their Own Homes with Help….

         Leatha Jack and Kay Kay

Pictured Above Jack Brown 3rd Son of Leatha Sherill Bush…..Leatha Sherill Bush and Her Daughter Shaquary Wasington….Who We All Affectionately Call Kay Kay …. ***All Photos above Courtesy Leatha Sherill Bush

A Situation And Choice No One Should Have To Make

Leatha Sherill Bush Is A Loving Mom and Grandmother who has faced and overcome many personal challenges in her life… A Few Years ago She Faced A Situation…..That No Parent and No One Should Ever Go Through…. A Few Days After Christmas A Few Years ago her Son Jack Brown 3rd (Pictured Above)  was shot and injured outside a store in Downtown Miami Fl…. Now Leatha was all ready caring for her daughter Shaquary Washington (both pictured above) who was born with Cerebral Palsy…. It was A Challenge but God Helped Leatha do it…..But Now She had to take care of Two Disabled Children…. She Was Doing Great …..But  Asked For Help As It Was Needed in Her Home to Have Nursing Assistance For Both Jack and Kay Kay…. But Sadly Florida would not help both Jack and Kay Kay to get care at home…. So Sadly She Had to Choose …. Care for both with Little to No Help ….Or Put Kay Kay in A Facility so Jack Could Get Help…. Sadly Kay Kay went into A Facility….. Why because Florida Would not have expanded HCBS Medicaid Services to Do This at Home….Medicaid Would Pay For Care For Kay Kay in A Facility…. However Leatha Heroically cared for Jack until and died less than a year later from his injuries from the shooting…. All The While Visiting Kay Kay  and Being Kay Kay’s Loving Mom That She Is…. Constantly making sure Kay Kay got proper care and was looked after in the Facility…. Sadly This December Kay Kay Died …. in A Hospital….  Her Mom Leatha Wanted Her Home ….. Had Florida Been more Cooperative and Offered more services Leatha would not have been put in that situation….. A Situation No Parent and No One Should Have Been In…. Making A Decision No One Should Ever Make….because of Lack of Services…. Leatha Wants All Who Can be Home to Be Home….. She Is Fighting For This Too…. We Thank Her For It….

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Allison and JJ Holmes…. Photo Allison Holmes Fsceebook

Allison and JJ

Allison Holmes has been caring for her Son JJ.(Both Pictured Above) A Brilliant Young Man who at age 17 having Cerebral Palsy…. Is His Class President….. Allison too needs Help As She is needing help caring for JJ..  At Home…. Allison needs Both Healthcare for herself ….As She is JJ “s Full Time Caregiver….Florida The State They Live in Refuses to Expand Medicaid Leaving Allison among the 1.1 Million Uninsured in Fl.. Medicaid Expansion Not Only would help others get access to Healthcare but provide through HCBS Medicaid Waiver Care for JJ. Which would ease the burden on Allison and Familes like her As She Does It All For JJ… They Are Willing to Ask For Help From Elected Officials and Challenging those who repeatedly refused to Help Them and others in Their situation Going So Far As to Be kicked out of rallies held by opponents of Medicaid Expansion and Expanded HCBS Waiver programs. We Thank Them For This….

Fred Christian Sr My Dad With Me Fred Christian ****Photo Miami Hearld ….Photo of My Dad Fred Christian via Facebook

My Dad and I

In 2018 My Dad had a horrific leg infection…, Now He Overcame a lot in His lifetime…. He Is 75 Now Having Cerbral Palsy also…. He was able to walk until 16 Years ago when a leg injury left him in A wheelchair From A Torn Achilles Tendon.. with limited mobility… He got the infection and did not receive great medical care where We Were living in SW Florida…. We relocated back to South Florida in early 2019… Because He was not getting well…. I Asked For extra help to Help him and got no where…. I Asked Insurance The State and All I could…. Finally …. I Faced A Bad Choice I needed help to Help him and that was recommended to me…. He temporarily went into A Facility…..He hated the place and wanted out…. The Care there in My Opinion was Awful…. I Am Greatful He Is Home….. He Now gets Home Care…. But He Would have been better off had He gotten it sooner… And The Home Care He Gets Is Much better Than Any Facility Can Provide…. He Is Happy At Home And I Want Him and Others like him to Be Home and Get Care….

My Friends That Is Why The HCBS WAIVER …Is So Important….. No One Should Ever Have to Choose or Be Forced into. Any Facility when Family can Care For Them or With Help They Can Do It Themselves …. The Waiver Opens Doors For The Elderly and Disabled….That The Facilities Coldly and Creully Close…. An Open Door Welcomes and Includes The Elderly and Disabled in The Community…. Which Door America ??? THE OPEN OR CLOSED ONE…. I WANT THE OPEN ONE AND Hope You Do Too…..

Special Thank You My Friends Leatha Sherill Bush, Allison And JJ Holmes…..Dedicated With Love To Shaquary Washington Our Angel In Heaven Kay Kay

Thank You All God Bless