Friday, August 12, 2011
Bobbi Payne Director of Residential Services for the BWCS
You can get toxoplasmosis in the following ways:
- By swallowing the parasite in cat litter or dirt that has cat droppings in it. This can happen if you put your hands to your mouth after gardening,cleaning a cat litter box or touching anything that has been in contact with cat droppings. Cats sometimes carry the parasite that causes toxoplasmosis, especially if they hunt animals or are fed raw meat. (Playgrounds and smoking areas, UM HMMM!)
- By eating raw or undercooked meat, especially pork, lamb or wild game.
- By touching something, such as a cutting board or dish, that has been in contact with raw or undercooked meat and then putting your hands in or near your mouth.
- By eating unwashed raw fruits and vegetables, or drinking water with the parasite in it.
- Swollen lymph nodes
- Fatigue
- Headache
- Body aches
- Fever
In people who have a weak immune system, toxoplasmosis can cause serious medical problems, such as:
- Confusion
- Blurry vision
- Trouble with balance and coordination
- Seizures
- Problems with the lungs
Your immune system can become weak for a number of reasons. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection leading to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) can weaken the immune system. So can some kinds of cancer chemotherapy or medicines that are taken after an organ transplant.
If you become infected while pregnant, your unborn child may also become infected. Infected babies may not develop any disease, or they may become very ill, with serious damage to the brain and eyes.
If you have been infected previously (at least 6 to 9 months before your pregnancy) with toxoplasma, you will develop immunity to it. The infection will not be active when you become pregnant, and so there is rarely a risk to your baby.
Routine screening for toxoplasmosis is not recommended. However, if you are at risk for toxoplasmosis because you have a weak immune system, your doctor might want you to have a blood test.
Toxoplasmosis is usually treated with antibiotics.
Source:Congenital Toxoplasmosis by J Jones, M.D., M.P.H., A Lopez, M.H.S. and M Wilson, M.S. (American Family Physician May 15, 2003, http://www.aafp.org/afp/20030515/2131.html)
I have repeatedly written about Pregnant women and their children throughout these blogs. I have mentioned the smoking area and the pregnant women in them (5), with their children. The cats love to stay near the smoking area and some of the women love to pet and pamper them, AND FEED THEM. You can spot the chicken bones, dishes and cat bowls throughout the WHOLE playground/smoking/picnic area, THE WHOLE AREA!! There are bowls and cans of catfood as you come into the shelter. Note, It's not just cats eating from these bowls and dishes and cans. There are skunks, opossums, and raccoon there as well. People coming into the shelter first develop a cough, then sore throat, fever and aches. ALL newcomers develop these symptoms, which the clinic treats with amoxicillin and luden's cough drops. YEAH RIGHT. So you see why I HAVE A PROBLEM with the cats, the feces, the playground, and the pregnant women. Let's face it, kids will have touched their eyes, nose and mouth about a dozen times before you can get them to the sink to wash their hands, all the while on the way to the sink they have touched EVERYTHING. Which is why I carried Hand Sanitizer with me and still do. And can we say washing the hands like an obsessed person. And I wasn't the obsessive one in my group of four Birds. But we all carried something to keep our hands clean, always.
OKAY, back to where I started, again. Let me see, blah blah, nice person, blah blah cats, ah the blog by Mr. Arriaga. It's just that money and power corrupts. She rose from sadness to the possibility of greatness. But she misused this power. She used ti to literally shit all over a system that was designed to help others like herself rise above THEIR sadness, anger, hurt, distress, and reach the rungs of the ladder that leads upward and away from all of that. While helping hundreds of women and children along this path, She fed her flaws, her ego, her Id(4) with the knowledge that she could also destroy a persons hopes, if only for a little while. I say that because a strong person like me will only whimper a bit when you strike her and then reach for something to strike back. If you try to take away My voice, I'll resort to other means, such as writing. Either way, I am going to get my point across. Right now, it's writing that I do best. I can speak, but it isn't like writing, where you can edit things out or rearrange the words so that the English experts don't come and tap you on the shoulder and cry foul. But speech, on a spontaneous level, can't really be edited. First of all, what if someone walks away while you are in the middle of this spontaneous oral work and they get the wrong impression. Secondly, you look like a blithering idiot when you try to backstroke and delete in real time. Besides, my mouth seems to get me in trouble most of the time. But the written word also gets me in trouble too. Look what happened with Ms. Bobbi Payne and my written complaint. I have others you know, I just never turned them in at the manager's office. Let me share some of them with you here.
RESIDENT COMPLAINT ABOUT ANOTHER RESIDENT(S) (this heading always makes me laugh because it EXCLUDES the words THE STAFF, which indicates to me that the BWCS definitely, de- de-definitely did NOT want to hear the complaints in regards to themselves)
If you have a complaint or question about something that has occurred between you and another resident while you are staying at the Shelter, the first step is to talk to your case manager and/or use this form.
Please follow the steps below:
Your Name: Roberta K. Smith
Your Case Manager's Name: Analy Galvan
Details about the situation or concern: After the unfortunate incident that I was dragged through by the staff here on 10-28-11, I want to point out, again, that the real problem was still not addressed to my satisfaction, ie "unsupervised"/Non Custodial children in the PC Lab with NO STAFF MEMBER IN ATTENDANCE. It has happened repeatedly, I have witnessed it myself, it was verbally mentioned while the staff member was there during the "speaker phone" talk that I was DRAGGED to which involved Ms. Bobbi Payne.
Name(s) of the resident(s) involved: myself and staff and the resident's of BWCS
Date of the issue or dispute: 10-28-11
How would like to see this resolved? (not a typo, that is how the form appears, for real) I'm sure alot of the mother's here are upset with me for bringing "Victor" under the microscope but I would like you to assure that these children in the shelter are not left unsupervised. You need to also keep in mind that although some parents here are content to let their offspring blatantly break the rules and some even assist in the breaking of these rules, there are parents here who are diligent and act responsibly and they are, and their children are being left open for attacks, threats, and abuse at the hands of the irresponsible.
Your signature: Roberta K Smith Date: 10-29-11
Please fold and staple this form and give it directly to your case manager or slide it underneath the case manager's door to ensure your privacy. (It really states that)
Then there's this one.
RESIDENT COMPLAINT ABOUT ANOTHER RESIDENT(S)
If you have a complaint or question about something that has occurred between you and another resident while you are staying at the Shelter, the first step is to talk to your case manager and/or use this form.
Please follow the steps below:
Your Name: Roberta K., Smith
Your Case Manager's Name: Analy Galvan
Details about the situation or concern: please reference page 1 or 2 of the "Resident's Daily Living Agreement" numbers 4 and 5 specifically in regards to the children. The bold type in particular which I quote now verbatim:
#4 I will supervise my children at all times and remain aware of both their location and activities. (with the following excerpt there verbatim)I will not leave my child unattended in the dining room, children's building, children's TV room, courtyard, hallways, lobby area, or the front of the facility.
#5 I will have my children in our room by 8 p.m. daily.
(I said verbatim and I wrote as such)
Name(s) of the resident(s) involved: BWCS residents in total about 3% now residing here. I won't give you names but tapes are available for viewing by STAFF I believe and have so been told. So pick randomly and then roll forward to 8 pm on any given day.
Date of the issue or dispute: 10-5-11 to present
How would like to see this resolved? I would love to have some quiet time or adult time, as I used to say to my children when they were the ages of most of the children I see here, to speak freely without offending "little ears" with either colorful language or adult content. But I see that the above #4 and #5 guidelines have somehow become this mongrel version of "take them to the room and leave them there while I go to the dining room to hang out" or "bring them with me after 8:30 pm and since I'm there, the children aren't really unattended". It's a catch 22 and it's up to You, The Staff to rectify and reinforce this situation. I'm sure that many complaint have been filed just as I am sure there will be more in the future. My real concern is for the children tat are being left in the rooms alone and unsupervised and how it isn't fair for the irresponsible to dump their children on another Mom.
Your signature: Roberta K. Smith Date: 10-29-11
Please fold and staple this form and give it directly to your case manager or slide it underneath the case manager's door to ensure your privacy. (first of all there's a code key door to get to your case manager's office plus you have to go through Lourdes to get the door opened during the day AND you are encouraged to turn these little ditties in AT THE MANAGER'S OFFICE)
Or,
RESIDENT COMPLOAINTG ABOUT ANOTHER RESIDENT(S)
If you have a complaint or question about something that has occurred between you and another resident while you are staying at the Shelter, the first step is to talk to your case manager and/or use this form.
Please follow the steps below:
Your Name: Roberta K. Smith
Your Case Manager's Name: Analy Galvan
Details about the situration or concern: "In case of fire, strollers are not permitted in the dining area so we can ensure a safe evacuation if necessary." "En caso de incendio, carriolas no son permitidas en el comedor para asegurarnos do una evacuacion segura si es necesaria"(don't look at me, that's how the sign reads)
Also, why can't we sit outside on the patio in back of the dining room? The door is easy to get out of but then it locks so you can't get back in. And the light fixture is broken on the lamp post,.
Name(s) of the resident(s) involved:
Date of the issue or dispute: 10-5-11 to present
How would like to see this resolved? It's a catch 22. Some of these women have multiple children and they are not at the toddler stage yet so it's an engma.
As far as the patio, that's up to Staff, and also whether I feel like setting off the alarm (done that) and walking all the way back around to get back into the dining room (done that three times in one day just to see who was paying attention), which means hopping the fence that is sometimes unlocked and unchained by the way (ie, patio near back fence with barbeque grills on it)
Your signature: Roberta K. Smith Date: 10-29-11
Please fold and staple this form and give it directly to your case manager or slide it underneath the case manager's door to ensure your privacy.
Now, if you recall from Chapter five THE INCIDENT, it was Ms. Payne's suggestion to me that I slip my information regarding the who, what and where or certain individuals UNDER HER DOOR. So I am going to assume she had some part in the preparation of this complaint form OR she took her idea from the form itself.
Now, after October 28, 2011, I had planned to submit a landslide of these "complaints" but I got cramps in my hands so I stopped writing them after number twelve, yes I said twelve. One was so long, it became Chapter 5. I covered, clothing vouchers not being met, the laundry rooms and THE UNSUPERVISED children who break the washing machines, lovers who love in a room filled with children, the lack of any sort of News Source, why we have wifi and can't have laptops, why an item gets posted on the Calender in the hallway only to never take place. It was quite an exhaustive stack of paper. I still have blank ones as I may want to mail some to the FVPS, Inc. and I'm still thinking of picketing in front of the building just to gain attention to my blogs and what's not right with the shelter, the part no one seems to be interested in. It makes good copy and a good news story when there is a charity involved BUT NOT if there's a complaint or several complaints. It appears to me that no one really gives a flying fuck what the hell goes on inside the damned place as long as it looks OH SO GREAT on the news with the pretty little pictures of the Smiling Staff members and the Philanthropist of the Week all standing in front of the camera......Breathe. Just breathe in and out.
To say I get heated under the collar is an understatement. I get friggin; pissed is what I DO! I want to run up and down the damned streets with a bullhorn in my hand yelling false prophets and liars and sadists run the BWCS, that's what I want to do. And that is in fact what this is all about.
People like Payne are all so fake. They love attention and will hide all that is wrong, to the detriment of any individual who gets in the way. They don't really care about these people, they care about themselves and their own IMAGE. Mrs. Stubbs was right to tell Brian the You were trouble and to stay away from you Ms. Payne. Even nice people can be mean, but you even take that to a whole new level.
So sit back and pat yourself on that boney little back of yours, with your two toned her and your crappy Spanish. Keep refusing to face the messes you make and the promises you break. Keep spitting on people and setting them out on the street, with their kids. Keep taking credit for the works of sincerity that your staff bestows on the residents of that gorgeously fucked up shelter. Keep giving out false information and unwritten rules and keep cultivating that grey/gray area, that pit that you throw out there for lack of anything better to say. Keep practicing in front of the mirror with that smile on your face so it will reach the voice you use to spew your tripe. And I will always remember you fondly just the way I have written about you right here. If there is an example of The law of Sensitive Dependence Upon Initial Conditions (Edward Lorenz 1963 The Butterfly Effect and I thank you Ms. Analy Galvan) then let us agree to keep flapping those wings. Let us also agree that the ripples are still going, still spreading and if I have any say in the matter will stay on the net, on the web and on paper for all to see for eternity. it will certainly stay on my mind.
(1)anal retentive (Source:http://www.urbandictionary.com) A mild form of obsessive-compulsive disorder. A collection of very irritating personality traits that include stubbornness, orderliness, and a desire to control others and their surroundings. It makes a person meticulous or fixated about little things, nit-picking or paying extreme attention to detail, and trying to control his or her environment and other people. They do things “by the book’’ with no flexibility in the way they complete tasks, and expect others to do and think as they. It’s their way or the highway, basically. They are the worst people to work for or live with. My roommate is a good example. He irons his underwear because he doesn’t want the wrinkles, assuming people will see them or care. He always must have his room spotless in every detail, including making his bed to perfection before going to work. Before he puts dishes in the dishwasher, he washes them thoroughly, defeating his purpose for the dishwasher. And he must have the dishes in the washer sitting at a certain angle, for fear they wont get cleaned. He will also literally pick tiny particles from the living room carpet, before using the vacuum cleaner. Psychologists say that anally retentive people’s habits—often controlling—stem from lack of being breast fed as an infant. Basically, people who are anally retentive act like they have something up their butt. Instead, they need to see a psyciatrist. And if things don’t go their way, they go nuts! Anally retentive people are usually very annoying as a result and may have a hard time making and keeping friends. NOTE TO READERS, I laughed when I found this and absolutely felt the need to share it with you. I am not this bad but I do the bed making dish thing and I have absolutely no problem making and keeping friends, at least I don't think I do.
Jocelyn has obsessive compulsive disorder, and checks the door 16 times to make sure it is locked. NOTE TO READERS, I most definitely am not this bad. The most I check something is two to four times, lol! No really!!
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