thinking of damo

What he told me after my panicked post here about his situation reassured me
but confused me. He said the house is going *up for sale* today, and "things
happen to an empty house," so he was hoping his landlord would let him
continue to live there until the house was sold.

I've been emailing him daily and have tried phoning but there is no answer.
There is just no way to know whether he's still got a place to live or is
out in the street.

Although there was little I could do to help him, I still can't help feeling
like I let a friend down. And in some ways he was the best friend I ever
had.

On Aug 1, 2:51 am, "Playa Del Now" <fort...@luneytunes.com> wrote:
> What he told me after my panicked post here about his situation reassured me
> but confused me. He said the house is going *up for sale* today, and "things
> happen to an empty house," so he was hoping his landlord would let him
> continue to live there until the house was sold.
>
> I've been emailing him daily and have tried phoning but there is no answer.
> There is just no way to know whether he's still got a place to live or is
> out in the street.
>
> Although there was little I could do to help him, I still can't help feeling
> like I let a friend down. And in some ways he was the best friend I ever
> had.

I am sad to see this happen. Hope he will show back up sometime. If I
had money available I would give him some.

I suppose his general health these days, in addition to his mental
health, is not up to such challenges so much these days. I hope
something works out. He was doing so well on his new medicines for
once.

"Gelly" <Gelly.D@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:a4234f31-f35f-4b59-8516-85d68e2d7bf2@27g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> On Aug 1, 2:51 am, "Playa Del Now" <fort...@luneytunes.com> wrote:
>> What he told me after my panicked post here about his situation reassured
>> me
>> but confused me. He said the house is going *up for sale* today, and
>> "things
>> happen to an empty house," so he was hoping his landlord would let him
>> continue to live there until the house was sold.
>>
>> I've been emailing him daily and have tried phoning but there is no
>> answer.
>> There is just no way to know whether he's still got a place to live or is
>> out in the street.
>>
>> Although there was little I could do to help him, I still can't help
>> feeling
>> like I let a friend down. And in some ways he was the best friend I ever
>> had.
>
> I am sad to see this happen. Hope he will show back up sometime. If I
> had money available I would give him some.
>
> I suppose his general health these days, in addition to his mental
> health, is not up to such challenges so much these days. I hope
> something works out. He was doing so well on his new medicines for
> once.

I just got an email from damo about half an hour ago and thought I should
post about it right away.

His landlord will let him continue to live in the house while it's on sale,
but insists that he complete his assisted housing application. Damo has had
trouble doing that so far. One thing blocking him is that he sees assisted
housing as the place old folks go to die. I think he's expecting to be
routed into a seniors' residence.

His big hope is that he finally starts getting his army pension so that he
can afford to put his possessions in storage and galivander around the
Carolinas busking in villages for about a year until he does get social
housing. There's vague talk about him coming up here for a visit on a
backpacking basis. He thinks there would be no problem arranging for him to
have a mailing address with a friend. But another former soldier tells me
the army pension people need to have their asses seriously kicked in order
to feel motivated to complete the approval process, and damo doesn't have
the motivation or shit-togetherness to do that.

In the meantime he's assisting his landlord in doing work around the empty
house the landlord's late mother used to live in. He's made adjustments to
his meds that are enabling him to sleep well and maintain a decent level of
physical activity. All in all he doesn't seem worried about his future.
Perhaps, then, I shouldn't be, either.

In my reply to damo I said that he and I are like a couple of quadriplegics
sharing a hospital room. We love each other dearly but can't lift a finger
to help each other because of my nonexistent income and his schiz stuff.
It's really sad when friends are reduced to this, because there should be no
greater asset in a person's life than friendship.

Damo says:
I'm alive.

I went in the river a few times these past two weeks and jumped in and
made it to the ocean yesterday......jumped in.
We're having a heat wave.

See if I can get those applications done today.
Then its a year or more for enough folks to die off until it reaches my
place in line.
It like an assembly line in a factory. At the very end they plant you in
the cemetary directly across the street.

The klonipin can make me so damn tired and weak but beside that I love
the stuff.

Gonna ask my shrink if he can get me some help filling out this crazy
paperwork.
PILES of paper for each application.

Then, at the end, if I can get a place with subsidized housing (cheap
cheap cheap) I can just wait my turn for the body bag ride back out the
front door.
Won't have to walk.

Gonna see about this army pension again too soon. Same day as the
shrink.
Is been a year now..........

I've been eating good.

I paid a dollar and 19 cents for a roll of scott toilet paper yesterday.

And I'm living with a 15 year old long hair cat who coughs up hair
balls.

My sweet potato vine in my front window is growing beautifully.

My neighbors' visitors are overtly hostile to me and I can't go outside
after dark without caution.
They throw rocks at my door.
So this keeps my cigarette smoking low as I can't smoke inside here..

Grandpa Damo

Glad to hear that you're doing ok, Damo.

Good luck on the pension.

penguin

good luck Damo. Our prayers and good thoughts are with you. Whatever you do,
please try to continue to post. Your posts are precious gold.

Katie


"Twang - twang" <damodara@webtv.net> a écrit dans le message de news:
29525-4895B3F0-1353@storefull-3231.bay.webtv.net...
> Damo says:
> I'm alive.
>
> I went in the river a few times these past two weeks and jumped in and
> made it to the ocean yesterday......jumped in.
> We're having a heat wave.
>
> See if I can get those applications done today.
> Then its a year or more for enough folks to die off until it reaches my
> place in line.
> It like an assembly line in a factory. At the very end they plant you in
> the cemetary directly across the street.
>
> The klonipin can make me so damn tired and weak but beside that I love
> the stuff.
>
> Gonna ask my shrink if he can get me some help filling out this crazy
> paperwork.
> PILES of paper for each application.
>
> Then, at the end, if I can get a place with subsidized housing (cheap
> cheap cheap) I can just wait my turn for the body bag ride back out the
> front door.
> Won't have to walk.
>
> Gonna see about this army pension again too soon. Same day as the
> shrink.
> Is been a year now..........
>
> I've been eating good.
>
> I paid a dollar and 19 cents for a roll of scott toilet paper yesterday.
>
> And I'm living with a 15 year old long hair cat who coughs up hair
> balls.
>
> My sweet potato vine in my front window is growing beautifully.
>
> My neighbors' visitors are overtly hostile to me and I can't go outside
> after dark without caution.
> They throw rocks at my door.
> So this keeps my cigarette smoking low as I can't smoke inside here..
>
> Grandpa Damo
>