Fishin' in the Mission.

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I was discharged from the hospital yesterday . Now I am in a motel in the Mission neighborhood of SF. It cost quite a bit to seepay for three nights here , although the motel gets awful reviews in Yelp , calling it a pesthole .
I am rather wondering what I should do next - Any suggestions ? Thus the idea of fishin' .
I do have some money stored up. In theory I'm going to another town in a couple days . But I just don't know .

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

What would the Hot Team do if you went to them?

...I left without the phone I came in with. On my last day my phone disappeared from my bed. While I was asleep. With the phone in a little slot in the bed's framing, right by me .
I was able to get a new one, and even transfer the monthish's minutes from the old one to the new one.
This part of the Mission is fairly run-down/not fancy, I suppose .
I'll discuss what you asked later, KK.

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

I've been to the Mission District---not so nice.

...Briefly , it was going to a coastal area in Oregon, or back to Seattle, where I was in '15 . The focal town in OR is under 10,000 population , I still have a couple of ID cards from Grunge-Town services places , presumably still good??. Getting around is a real difficulty now , especially w/ my now very CHF-impaired walking .
Seattle is very hilly.

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

...To get to the main point, I had switched from thinking I'd go to a town/area in Oregon that was by the beach, one in particular , population under 10,000 - to thinking of going back to Seattle (was there in 2015) - more services. more of a pool of people to potentially meet , some " stepping stones " I'd used there (nice library , a comic shop, a church I'd gone to) - and even still having ID cards for two HL services places , presumably?? I'm still signed up.
A problem: Now, with my CHF-impaired walking getting around. Even that one of those service places was down a major flight of stairs then. anyway, no elevator, even in, '15 a problem. One aspect of shelter-sleeping I remembered - that overflow from one were sent to sleep at volunteering churches . parish/ meeting rooms. sometimes at nice ones in the suburbs (I remember seeing flyers for a Lutheran??-affiliated uni which seemed a possible.model for a place to go if I ever worked up the uni thing) .and they'd have nice food.

However, the sleeping was still on a mat on a floor and well , getting up from a lying position ...........

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

I meant...in the meantime....until you got the funds to go to these places.

So you don't have to sleep in the street.

...I thought I put up something like what I'm going to say before -
I have sufficient money right now to leave, between my SSDI and an additional gift a non -WP friend gave me . It is about 1and 3/4 checks . I could pee it away hanging around here for a while:-(.
I have found out that that one particular HL spot in Seattle, an HL daytime place for 50+ which springboards into a big shelter which sometimes overflowed into that sleeping-with-the-Lutherans situation, that is one of the two places I still have IDs for - That is still down a quite large number of steps , with no elevator:-(.

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

...It has taken me a lot of time to get this done, so...........I have now run through a lot of the money.
An argument against going is the " be sensible " of " you shouldn't run away. You can't run away from yourself " However, if we really stretch that, no one will go anywhere!
A compelling argument for leaving is the wanting to get things going on the digging up of my records to try and start the process ongoing to cc to, from there. go to uni . As I have mentioned, I believe the California state university systems , UC and CSU, are closed to me.
KK...I think at this point the Hot Team would provide about the same , a shelter space, etcetera.
Probably . Recently, one day they said I had a space for that night, as it turned out I did not.
Remember, I lost the.crappy SRO simply for not showing up because I was in the hospital ,

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

...I wemy put to-day and got more stuff - but I also lost a $29.99 duffel bag which I had only recently bought . It had nothing on it, anyway , but...
I had experiences backing up how crippled I am .
I have a day left in this expensive fleabag motel. I am likely, if I go to the Hot Team on Monday, to just get a slot in that last shelter again .
If anyone cares to answer - do you think I should go to Seattle or stay here ?

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

...It is late-late/early on the Monday I have to vacate this motel.room .
I have gotten a little better as far as energy when I begin to walk , and general feeling - certainly at the beginning . I daresay this is because I've been able to sleep and lie down at length in a supporting - and queen-sized - bed! I presume I will, at best, immediately go back to the shelter situation tom'w note - where I cannot get as much rest .
Remember, I AM CRIPPLED If I could only rest/get the gs together in a more normal way .

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

You'll be in the same situation in Seattle, probably---except that you will more likely be "homeless on the street."

...To more fully outline this, KK, that card I have for the 50+ daytime shelter, the place automatically springboards into shelter, at least it did then.
Also, I feel that some action on the getting my HS-and-era records so that I could get into cc so that I may from there get into university HAS TO start being moved upon !
It's not that it can only be done in Seattle - it's more like it can't be done here in SF . IT'S NOW OR NEVER .

I guess you could call the King County Community College or whatever. See how they can find "lost" records. Or their policy when there are "lost" records.

Where is this "50 or over" shelter? In Seattle proper?

...Yes, Seattle proper.
It was a daytime hang@out place, which fed into buses to the main shelter, which , if it was full'ypu weren't with a regular slot, fed to those church building sleeps I mentioned .
I rather wish for the " nice suburban kid " status I once had ...

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!