Jacob Neitzel

Jacob Neitzel

Please help Catherine & Jacob

At age 18, Jacob Neitzel was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic. With the correct medication, he could have been a productive member of our society. Instead, through a series of medical misdiagnoses, bureaucratic circumstances, and outright injustice, Jacob has led an unfortunate life. He has not only been denied access to proper medical care, but also denied his human and civil rights, being effectively incarcerated in 1995.

Once in prison, he was dangerously placed in with the general population. He was beaten, raped, and sold or traded as a human commodity by cruel inmates who used and abused him. Prison officials and guards often looked the other way, or in some cases aided his abusers while benefitting financially. In 2004, in a last ditch attempt to free himself from this horror by suicide, Jacob suffered a serious traumatic brain injury (TBI) with severe frontal lobe damage.

Relying on a wheelchair, and having contracted Type II Diabetes and Hepatitis C, Jacob has been shuffled from one mental institution to another. None of the facilities has ANY expertise in the treatment of TBI. His right to fair and reasonable health care has been completely dominated by the system that now uses his situation to bleed him of whatever benefits and finances they can claim, in his name.

Jacob needs help, not just with basic comforts and quality of life. He needs to be saved from a system that has continually failed him. His mother Catherine, who loves her son and desperately wants to care for him, tragically has not been allowed to help him. Due to her attempts to bring attention to his situation, she has even been threatened with the same kind of institutionalization to which her son has been condemned.
Catherine has recently found a place that provides treatment for TBI and will welcome her assistance.

Finally, it is an opportunity for Jacob and Catherine to be reunited. Catherine needs to rent a small apartment close by to help Jacob with his improvement and care. With her help, Jacob has been able to walk more and need his wheelchair less.

Jacob and Catherine need your help now, and now there is a way you can help them. If there was ever a crowd sourcing cause, this is it! Please click on the links below to read Jacob’s story. Pass it on, spread the word, and donate whatever you can to this family that has literally lost everything.

Jacob and Catherine are up against the wall. They have nowhere left to go. More than ever, they need your kindness, generosity, and outrage. Please help them now.

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Jacob’s Magical Mystery Tour …..While in Oregon

In November of 2011, Catherine and Jacob decided to travel to Oregon in search of better treatment for her son’s TBI. Things worked out quite to the contrary.

When they arrived in Medford, OR on 16 November 2011, Jacob showed signs of confusion and anxiety, it was a long road trip and something he was not used to.

Rogue Valley Hospital in MedfordIn 2011 Jacob wound up at Rogue Valley Medical Center in Medford, OR where Jacob was abused and mistreated. Catherine complained to higher authorities, as a result, Jacob received a ‘mea culpa’ letter and was transferred to Oregon State Hospital in Salem after his medical records were forged. (JACOB’S TBI WAS DENIED, nobody cared.

Salem State Hospital in SalemAfter about 4 months of Rogue Valley, he was transferred to Salem State Hospital. The doctor there recognized his TBI, could not help him and he was shortly after released.

Salem Health Hospital in SalemJacob wound up there briefly; they forced him to give a blood test suspecting him to be high on drugs. This was not the case. Catherine said he had a TBI, was in a wheel chair and had a verbal outburst. As Jacob fought back against being forced to take the blood test, he was physically beaten and abused by the hospital staff, who threatened to file charges against him. They denied his TBI.

Portland State Hospital in PortlandJacob’s TBI again was denied; he got no TBI treatment yet was physically and mentally abused.

Salem State HospitalJacob was sent back to Salem State Hospital because Catherine confronted Dr. Wolf & Elon Shlosberg regarding their Jewish Religious practices in the State Hospital.

No TBI treatment given. Dr. Wolf sent Jacob to Dr. Jobe’s Unit at Salem State Hospital because he felt threatened by Catherine re: Jewish Religious Practices.

Gateway Behavioral in Eugene
In March of 2013, Jacob was placed at Gateway Board & Care in Springfield, OR, where again, there is no treatment or consideration for Jacob’s TBI. He is being warehoused, has gained more than 50 lbs. in weight, his diabetes has progressed as his hepatitis C is totally ignored.

Sacred Heart Hospital in EugeneJacob was taken off all psychotropic medications, was taken down to baseline, for no apparent reason, other than for the attending psychiatrists curiosity. Again, he received no treatment for his TBI, and he had no behavioral problems.

Salem State HospitalJacob again was shot up with psychotropic medications, and shipped off to Portland State Hospital, again, his TBI has been denied.

Portland State HospitalJacob has been there now since February 2014. Again he received any treatment for his TBI. He has gained 70lbs in weight, his blood sugar has elevated.

He now has type II Diabetes which he did not have before, and he has a high liver count, which he did not have before.

Conclusion
At this point Oregon has institutionalized Jacob completely, in that he has not been able to set foot outside of the Oregon State Hospital during the past three years as Jacob has no interest at this time to even go outside his 4 walls.

To add insult to injury, for many months that Jacob has been kept in an institution, both his mother and his friends have been forbidden to either see him or speak to him by phone.

When Jacob attempts to call out, the hospital interrupts / ends the phone call.