What Helping Hearts means to me is hope, hope in that you're going to be treated very,
honestly, that you get to live in a home environment, me being paraplegic and blind
and with other problems that I had, people would usually put me into either a nursing home
or a boarding care. But here at Helping Hearts, they saw that,
no, you know, I can live independently as a resident in one of their homes.
And I am so glad that they do that. It's just like a family atmosphere.
You get to meet a lot of nice, interesting people.
But you also feel very safe. You feel secure and also secure in the knowledge
that you're going to get three meals a day and they are going to be nutritious meals.
You're going to be able to have them take you to your appointments when you need to go
instead of having to wait an hour, hour and a half for paratransit to show up.
And, you know, so your life, your life is going to be a lot easier.
They take the burden off of you, you know, that you're carrying with you.
If you're out there and you're on the streets or you're in a really bad environment,
you know, we can't help where we're at.
But when Helping Hearts comes along, that is just like, that's gold.
Helping Hearts and Jimmy Impact came in and they saved me.
You know, there are so many places out there that say that they are a room and board.
They're not a room and board, you know.
They're just trying to pack ten people into a two bedroom house.
Okay, and that's no exaggeration.
I'm blind and paraplegic, but I've started lifting weights because that's never going to happen again.
But here I don't have to worry about it. Here you have a background check on every person that comes in here.
So that you can feel safe and secure.
Like I say, there are, I can't even name one place here in Sacramento that's any good except for Helping Hearts.
Other places, they don't treat you right.
You know, if they kick you out, they just take the rest of your money.
They have where they take people that are too disabled for them to, they don't really want to care for them.
They just want the money, these other places.
And so they, you know, they'll take the person to a hospital or they'll call the hospital and say,
oh yeah, he's having trouble breathing or something.
And then they take them and then they say, no, we don't want them back.
They've furnished me with a desk in my room and everything and a filing cabinet so that I could do my work.
And so right now I'm in Braille Literacy too.
And I also have projects.
I buy these interlocking puzzles and put them together.
And then I paint them and Helping Hearts helps me out with that.
It's a place that has literally saved my life and my two dogs.
And I have no plans on going anywhere.
I just have a lot of plans on getting a lot of stuff done and a lot of things accomplished.
