Last week, I was discharged from an Intensive Outpatient Program here at the Memorial Outpatient Department of Behavioral Health due to the fact that my insurance didn't cover the Memorial Healthcare System.
I had thought if that I had switched to Avmed insurance, that I would be able to go to The Odyssey Day Treatment Program at the same facility I mentioned above, so I jumped on the bandwagon without reading the fine print, and look what happened.
I do recall last Friday when I was discharged, I told the therapist that I was going to make the insurance change again, so I got a list of possible insurance companies that possibly covered the Memorial Healthcare System, so last Monday I called each one of them with no success, and then
the superviser of the facility recommended that I call Medicaid to make the switch to the HMO Wellcare, so yesterday, my mentor from the Rebel's Drop-in Center called Medicare and helped me switch to full medicare coverage so that way I can attend Odyssey in February, all I have to do now is hope and pray I get in.
Also this experience has inspired me to do a "Statement Picture" on the Healthcare Crisis here in The U.S.A. , which I will do sometime later this year.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
The Hardest Hardcore Issue that I'm tackling
Well Folks, welcome to my blogspot.
Throughout these past six years since I've been attending the Rebel's Drop-in Center which is at the same facility where The Memorial Outpatient Department of Behavioral Health houses their offices at 3400 North 29th Avenue in here in Hollywood, FL which is in the Fort Lauderdale vincinity here in South Florida, I've had the opportunity to develop my talent as an artist, (I'm a painter, collage maker, and writer) and yes I've sold 17 of my paintings which were of the Art Deco hotels of South Miami Beach, Florida, but now at the beginning of this new year of 2010, I've realized that I like tackling hard-core issues that the world deals with everyday such as genocide, the state of Israel, and The Hurricane Katrina disaster at New Orleans) by making collages on them.
But right now I'm tackling an issue which I have survived is abuse.
I've had a hankering to do an art project that dealt with this issue not only to help me heal, but to
also shed a lot of light on the subject of abuse and bring hope that those who have been victims of child abuse, spousal abuse, elderly abuse, or knows or knew anybody who has suffered in this "Secret Ordeal" of abuse of all kinds whether it would be physical abuse, sexual abuse, verbal abuse, emotional abuse, mental abuse, neglect, abandonment, and all other kinds of human abuses done to other human beings, could heal and lead productive lives.
I have Asperger's Syndrome which is an Autism Spectrum Disorder that was a result of being mentally wounded from the pain and trauma of abuse at the ages of three to five years.
That's why the name of this "statement picture" is called "A Secret Ordeal" because it's an issue that is now more widely known but in most cases goes unreported.
To me right now I see myself as Steven Spielberg directing "Schindler's List" or Roman Polanski directing "The Pianist" because these were issues they dealt with as kids and they had to tackle them sooner or later.
I hope this piece will help to bring this issue to an end
Throughout these past six years since I've been attending the Rebel's Drop-in Center which is at the same facility where The Memorial Outpatient Department of Behavioral Health houses their offices at 3400 North 29th Avenue in here in Hollywood, FL which is in the Fort Lauderdale vincinity here in South Florida, I've had the opportunity to develop my talent as an artist, (I'm a painter, collage maker, and writer) and yes I've sold 17 of my paintings which were of the Art Deco hotels of South Miami Beach, Florida, but now at the beginning of this new year of 2010, I've realized that I like tackling hard-core issues that the world deals with everyday such as genocide, the state of Israel, and The Hurricane Katrina disaster at New Orleans) by making collages on them.
But right now I'm tackling an issue which I have survived is abuse.
I've had a hankering to do an art project that dealt with this issue not only to help me heal, but to
also shed a lot of light on the subject of abuse and bring hope that those who have been victims of child abuse, spousal abuse, elderly abuse, or knows or knew anybody who has suffered in this "Secret Ordeal" of abuse of all kinds whether it would be physical abuse, sexual abuse, verbal abuse, emotional abuse, mental abuse, neglect, abandonment, and all other kinds of human abuses done to other human beings, could heal and lead productive lives.
I have Asperger's Syndrome which is an Autism Spectrum Disorder that was a result of being mentally wounded from the pain and trauma of abuse at the ages of three to five years.
That's why the name of this "statement picture" is called "A Secret Ordeal" because it's an issue that is now more widely known but in most cases goes unreported.
To me right now I see myself as Steven Spielberg directing "Schindler's List" or Roman Polanski directing "The Pianist" because these were issues they dealt with as kids and they had to tackle them sooner or later.
I hope this piece will help to bring this issue to an end
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