Let her choose where she wants to be!! Please!!
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To whom it may concern: I am writing in regards to a woman in Nebraska named Kathy Porterfield. Kathy had a MS relapse and was sent to the hospital. The state decided for her that she would not return home, instead they sent her to a nursing home against her will. Because of her disabilities Kathy is not fully independant, cant't work and requires personal care assistants to help her with many of her daily activities. However, prior to her relapse Kathy was living in her own home, having help come to her. By putting Kathy in the nursing home, the state as has taken away what little privacy, dignity, and independance she has. She has no internet, or any way of communicating with friends, unless they call her. This is no life. Kathy prefers to be in her own home, and have the care attendants take care of her when she needs them there. It is very important to her that she can live the way she wants to, and it is important to me as a friend to see she is treated with the dignity of a human being. Just becasue she has a physical handicap does not mean she can not make her own decisions and does not mean she doesnt know what is best for her.
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103 signatures
Goal: 50,000
Latest Signatures
31 July 2010
103.
BEVERLY BEVERLY L. EVANS
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27 July 2010
102.
gloria williams
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LIFE IS HARD ENOUGH WITH A DISABLITY WE SHOULD AT LEAST GIVE A PERSON SOME DIGINITY!
26 July 2010
101.
Ann Bustell
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25 July 2010
24 July 2010
24 July 2010
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Scott MacDonald(Scooter)
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Living in a nursing home is not what I call living at all. It's a place of depression and filth. Let Kathy go home. Hasn't she been through enough?
23 July 2010
23 July 2010
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Ryan Doyle
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23 July 2010
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Link W Herrman
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11 July 2010
94.
Laura Stoughton
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11 July 2010
93.
Abdirazak Ali
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Respect & dignity are important to human as food & shelter. Do not take them away from any human being!
27 June 2010
92.
Rex Lienberger
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26 June 2010
91.
Bill Alms
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25 June 2010
90.
Kim Hughes
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25 June 2010
89.
Terry Malcolm
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24 June 2010
88.
eric j. goldstein
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23 June 2010
87.
Jenn Murphy
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22 June 2010
86.
Kris Goins
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22 June 2010
85.
Paul Komanecky
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21 June 2010
84.
James Schenk
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I agree that the handling of Ms. Porterfield's case is an act bordering on criminal.
21 June 2010
83.
WILLIAM SPIVEY
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21 June 2010
82.
karen hwang
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20 June 2010
81.
Kelly Rathcke
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20 June 2010
80.
Clare Padfield
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19 June 2010
79.
Belinda Harrison
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