Wound Care for Homeless Patients

@giveyoursole, @hardlynormal, @hanes Basic Wound care is simple. Keep it clean and dry and don’t touch it until it heals. Great. But what if you don’t have access to showers and toilets or bandages, or someone to help you clean and bandage the wound? What if you are homeless and forced to spend all day […]

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Water in the Waste Land

@urm  #fb“I want that ” my daughter used to tell me. In return I would tell her that “The people in Hell want ice water”. I thought I was being smug until she asked “Well, are you going to give them any?” If you would like to visit a real version of smoldering heated Hades […]

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Maps of Skid Row

a fried asked me where it started and ended – and so here are the maps for what other people think are the boundaries of Skid Row. First – USC.. and Charity Navigator . .

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Skid Row gang injunction

LA CAN – please shut up and get your facts straight. Also, read the etiquette chapter on listening politely to your city Officials before protesting pointlessly. The Gang Injunction is to keep known drug dealers from selling in Skid Row, It is not an injunction against homelessness, people without housing, or people who use drugs […]

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