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.

Friday, June 6, 2014

Train Ride to Portland

This week Catherine left the Bay Area for a 17-hour train ride to Portland Oregon, to try to visit her sick son, whom she has been technically forbidden to see or talk to for more than 8 long months. She has to make this 17 hour trek because that is the only way she can afford to go. Hopefully, the folks in Portland will give her a mother's courtesy, and allow her to see her son.

The risk of that however is that if they allow her to see Jacob, she may become aware of new "issues", and "situations" he has been put in, opening up yet more objections and concerns. We'll just have to see.

Once she arrives in Portland, it is uncertain if Catherine will have the bed she has requested to sleep in, at the Salvation Army. Oregon being the capital of bi-polar America tends to have these services over booked. A very peculiar and sad situation.

If you are reading this, and can help, please help Catherine with whatever you can spare. And above all pass this on to your friends and family, if we can get enough support rallied, Catherine can survive to keep fighting the system for her son's rights and freedom.
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