I NEED TO KNOW IF SSI has access to information regarding agencies that will help clients in EMERGENCY MEDICAL SITUATIONS such as this? My rent's up $70 a month, and  my MEDICAL EXPENCES ARE WAY OVER that amount, so there isn't much left for GOOD NUTRITIOUS FOOD FOR CANCER PATIENTS.



Thank you for any referrals you might be able to give me. The month of November was totally devoted to Breast Cancer Surgery, and the following six weeks will have to be devoted to radiation and chemo therapy.



Thanks Again for your Referrals,



Sincerely,



Lynda



Lynda F. Phillips

805-616-7394



SS: 329-40-1051



1131 Morning View Drive Apt 305

Escondido, CA 92026



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: LF 
Date: Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:08 PM
Subject: Fwd: Letter from a client of yours whom I have assisted
To: "Nguyen, Mike" 




Dear Mr. Nguyen:

(HUD?)

(Housing authority (Community?) they've changed their exact title again:)

3989 Ruffin Road

San Diego, CA  92123-1815




What do you want from my friend regarding GAS EXPENSES ?  She's already gone out of her way to put two nights at the Hilgard Hotel, Westwood on her CREDIT CARD---for which I must eventually  make repayment plans; can you please "describe" the exact "form" of receipt you are requiring from here ? If  she sends , her GASOLINE CREDIT CARD RECEIPT, that would be asking allot of personal information that I don't fee she should be required to expose in her verifications. . PLEASE TELL ME WHAT YOU NEED for this to be considered a deduction for December? THIS has been, MEDICALLY speaking,  the worst month of my life; and I could not put off the cancer  surgery.It's just a tragedy, that that also had to be the month TERRACE GARDENS chose to increase rents at our building. (I'm astounded my neighbors who have SDI coming in, were increased by only fifty dollars a month", yet me being disabled and indigent am required to pay $20 above that--though I am supposedly "aided by a housing program?" Thank you very much for that-I know you appear to be merely complying with THEIR RULES.




I sent you FOUR VERIFICATIONS OF PAYMENTS from Blue shield HMO payments  ($19.90)made steadily/monthly since April, 2013, 

I sent you STATE FARM RECEIPTS/ verifications, I pay monthly ($14.40) and haven't missed a payment since I moved in to my apt two years ago;I also sent you an AETNA Medical "prescription" service BILL requiring $21 per month.
All of these have to be paid MONTHLY and were PAID DURING THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER.




so tell me IN WHAT EXACT FORM YOU NEED "THESE RECEIPT TO BE  PRESENTED?" Please ?




I TAPED these receipts all together, carefully in lieu of using staples, so that you could easily flip through and copy them without much difficulty . (the surgeon commented they appeared very organized and manipulatable, too?" I  asked that you please return then; to me by mail-as you agreed ---but I still have not received my originals back. It was impossible for me to get out of the apt just to go bump around Rite Aide to get copies ;at their machines--you agreed.




I spoke with Mr. Murillo this morning, today, and mentioned also that LENS FOR LESS is sending a receipt for my glasses paid for in November, too . ($29.95) ...John, the owner of Lens for Less, agreed to mail a copy of that receipt TODAY, Dec., 3rd. He also mentioned, that these extra expanses at a time my building chose to increase my rent, was just UNFORTUNATE..However, the comment he utilized is baffelingto me. He sais the "deductions allowed me" during the month of November,"affecting , future   difficulties during the month of DECEMBER,  was "required to adhere to a Medical Threshold ," of some sort..and that's why you were only able to "deduct" $5 from my rental portion, when it's very obvious to THE LOGICAL MIND REVIEWING THE EXPENSES, that it's not really "fair or equitable" tomy mind,to TAKE A TOTEL OF $64.31 cents, and review it as only equaling a grand total of  $5 ? THE RENT WENT UP BY $70--AND MY required to pay or lose medical services OUTPUT was $64. ???










It's unfortunate that my rental increase share  from $219 -to $290--during a month I was presented with so many UNFORSEEN medical problems; that's an awfully large increase for people on my income with my specific medical needs. It behooves me how doctors advise to try to AVOID STESS and EAT FRESH VEGETIBLES AND GOOD QUALITY NUTRITIONAL foods-to cope with this cancer situation, while after the rent and medical payments are made, I hardly have $50 a week left to purchase food .  Radiology and chemotherapy transportation is another expense, at $7 per day-so that will eat up all my food funds for sure! But it has to be attended to, and I had NO PRIOR WARING . If this "policy "set by HUD, along with GIANT INCREASES IN RENT continues, I shall have to add high blood pressure medicine to the mix TOO.




Now you 've got me wondering if the AMTRAC CHARGES UP AND BACK TO SEE MYSURGEON AT UCLA being $64, might have also been considered a MEDICAL DEDUCTION.  These medical deductions , to ME, seem to not have been "attended to" or "looked at" at all.




Again, I thank you for allowing me to continue on the HOUSING PEOPLE'S PROGRAMS, but I have to ask this because none of this makes much sense to me at all. Since it is YOUR area of expertise (an those reading this email., ) I was hoping that you,could ?




Please help advise me with this-as I don't want to incur a  "late" fee, by my apt. mgmt., while waiting for his "adjustment" to take place.

MAKE MY CHRISTMAS.  Please look into this AGAIN ?




Sincerely,




Lynda 




Lynda F. Phillips

805-616-7394









---------- Forwarded message ----------
 From: KayBee Nullenvoyde 
Date: Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 3:53 PM
Subject: Letter from a client of yours whom I have assisted
 To: mike.nguyen@sdcounty.ca.gov, Lynda Faye , "bonolatim @dslextreme.com" 







Mr. Mike Nguyen
Housing Authority San Diego
    Re: Expenses of Lynda F. Phillips re Recent surgery
Dear Mr. Nguyen:             
I am Bonnie Callahan, a long-time friend of Lynda Phillips, and temporary Power of Attorney for her throughout her recent surgery, November 15th, 2013.
 
When Lynda phoned me with her biopsy results of stage 2 Breast Cancer, I offered to help her return to her former surgeon located at the Revlon Breast Center at UCLA, as well as put both of us up at a hotel near UCLA the nights before and after her surgery, November 14th through 16th.
However, due to complications with anesthesiology, her doctor ordered she stay at the hospital overnight (November 15-16), requiring me, of course, to stay at the Hilgard Hotel another night.
 
Lynda made her way to Los Angeles on November 14, and I met her there, walked her through her surgery requirements and post op difficulities. She gave me some money for gas and incidentals, to drive her  home. I suppose the overall expenses to me came to around $50-60 or so.

The days I stayed with her to help her were, of course, based on friendship, but I did provide gas for the car in order to accomplish this trip. As I get about 40
miles a gallon, I estimate the overall gas expense was $30. She wants this to be considered.

Lynda asked me to try to refer to resources that she needs, to inform her "In Home-Support-Services" Supervisor, so I might address them for her. Apparently her daughter is paid by "In Support Services San Diego" to perform household cleaning. (But  is anyone paid to assist  Lynda in regard to her need to shop for good quality foods and to get the groceries home?  I am concerned as
to this need being met if Lynda is going to be further disabled by her treatment).

Lynda tells me that whenever "food in kind" is accepted, she has to report this to the Social Security Department, so she needs for them to be informed, as Lynda wishes to pay me later for those small items I helped her with; Gas from UCLA to Escondido was an important item to us, ( as well as my driving from my home to UCLA on November 14--I have no idea if this is admissable.)

I want to be sure she is complying with the Social Security Rules, and I want to know that I am assisting her effectively in this matter.
 
Lynda's Multiple Sclerosis disability, compounded by recent cancer surgery, leads me to wonder if she will or will not obtain much help through her eligibility with the local  North County Van Transit 

services-as their drivers are not obligated to actually HELP LIFT groceries etc.

(Lynda's concern: Are they/you serving  patients to get to their appointments? Lynda needs help due to a damaged right shoulder and arm/fractured ankle, from a trip and fall, and there is no service that will help with her grocery needs, i.e., deliver, so I offered just while I was there over the weekend she was recovering--I do not know much about this aspect).
 
I sincerely hope  this information can be utilized to help Lynda get back to normal soon;  being able to utilize her left arm (removal of lymph node+breast surgery ) and sit at her computer again.

She tells me that her Blue Shield PPO application and payment for the upgrade was never considered, so she now has to seek out a new DentalPlan-
Apparently her dentist canceled her appointment saying "deal with the cancer first." She designated Blue Shield do an electronic payment for this, and I don't know the details from here on in.

Sincerely, BG Callahan

