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My life just felt like it was going down hill, you know.

Then, I had a heart attack and I guess that woke me up.

I had to learn how to walk and talk and do a lot of things.

I still have problems with the handwriting.

Mostly I do a lot better.

I don’t think about it.

I don’t dwell on things.

I was thankful I was here.

I felt bad my kids went through all this pain seeing me suffer.

That hurt me worse than anything.

I wasn’t being able to release my good feeling because I was seeing all this

but they were so worried about me all the time.

I was focusing more on them worrying about me than me getting better.

Without Sherri I wouldn’t have come this far.

I would not have come this far.

She’s been a part of all of it.

It makes me just go forward all the time.

Oh, she’s helped me with so much.

Besides her being there and her checking on me and helping me

and answering all my questions-- which I don’t remember what questions I had--

but I know every time I had one, Sherri answered it

and I felt better after talking to her about it.

I can still just call her any time I have anything and

she takes time to explain everything to me and talk to me.

When my mom passed away she helped me a great deal.

I just feel very blessed having Sherri, I’m sorry.

She got me the walker so I could start walking better and the chair for my bathtub

so I could sit in the bathtub and take my own bath and

the bar for the bathtub so I could get in and out of the bathtub.

She knows how much my kids worry about me and she got me this Lifeline and that just helped a

great deal and that took a load--a big load off of them and me, of course.

This is a wonderful organization I didn’t even know existed before.

I didn’t even know how Sherri showed up on my door.

I still don’t know.

I know she’s told me but I don’t remember.

Evidently when Arrie was in the hospital her social worker there

referred her to DHS for ADvantage.

We got the paperwork after they interviewed her at the hospital.

So, I came to her home shortly after she came home and she was like, “Where did you come from?”

It’s because of this service that so many people are able

to get things that they’ve always needed.

Like for Arrie, she’d had strokes, she’d had heart attacks--the ADvantage Waiver

Program is one of the programs that will keep the elderly in their home as long as they can,

as safely as possible.

There are a lot of people who don’t make a lot of money, even retirement money

and they can’t afford everything.

They can’t afford incontinence supplies and ADvantage provides that.

They fall but they can’t afford the button to help them get up.

ADvantage pays for Link to Life so that they have that emergency button for help.

You know, they have things like Meals On Wheels that they provide for these people that

don’t even have money to buy food.

I mean, it’s an awesome service that people need to know about that can benefit them and keep

them safe and keep them in their own home which is where they want to be.

I don’t know, I just look at life so different.

I can’t do as much as I want to do.

I enjoy things more.

I feel safe.

I feel very blessed and I feel better.

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