Yesterday I was waiting to meet up with my outreach compatriots, sitting in my car and watching all the humans walking, driving, running, biking along Mission Street. I spend a lot of time thinking about humans, being annoyed, baffled and loving them. I was talking to my dad the other day who said, “Humans, they [...]
While I was at the VA Hospital this week I spent some of my spare time looking through patient education handouts for some that I could use to hand out to the ladies I see during street/SRO outreach. I’m hoping to set up a mini hypertension screening service for the women we see regularly, and [...]
Last night at outreach I had a wonderful surprise, a new woman joined our team. I met her several months ago as a resident of one of the SROs we go into. She was living there with her husband and two year old daughter. We don’t see a lot of kids in the hotels so [...]
I did crack tonight. Well, I think it was crack, it also could have been meth. I’m really not sure; all I know is that while doing outreach I walked by a gentleman smoking on the stairs and there was a bitter alkaloid burning along with the pot in his joint. The girls I was [...]