Young Vallejo Family Loses A Daughter And Likely Their Home - Times-Herald

[WillyT]

Young Vallejo family loses a daughter and likely their home
Lender rejects Rep. Miller's efforts and their appeals
By Tony Burchyns / Times-Herald
Posted: 05/20/2011 03:43:44 AM PDT

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But the eviction couldn't have come at a more deeply emotional time for the Vallejo family -- on the heels of the death of their eldest daughter, Michaela, who succumbed to heart failure on April 27.

A first-grader at Mare Island Elementary School, she lived 1 1/2 years after her second heart transplant, and would have been 7 this month.

Born with a congenital heart defect, Michaela was featured in a July 8, 2008, Times-Herald article about her first transplant surgery at Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. Her second transplant was in August 2009.

Now the family, which has two other daughters, ages 2 and 4, must grieve and move at the same time. The bank has refused their requests -- and those of U.S. Rep. George Miller, D-Martinez -- to postpone the eviction.

Facing an order to appear in court Tuesday, the family says it will vacate their historic Virginia Street house by the end of next week.

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Michaela Kost, 6, center, is shown
dressed in her Halloween peacock costume
from last year with her sisters, Merril, 2,
left and Marley, 4.

Link: http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_18103061

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[flor-de-jasmim]

2. It feels as though we've fallen into the alternate reality in "It's a Wonderful Life"

[WillyT]

3. Kick !!!

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[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Just incredibly sad.

[Urban Prairie]

5. I can relate to what they are going through, as illness ultimately caused me to lose my home

almost four years ago, and my wife lost her job to outsourcing a mere two weeks after I was forced to resign from mine for health reasons. My wife's employer made it a bolded point in her termination letter to inform her that we would be losing our medical coverage at the end of that month, heartless fucking bastards. COBRA monthly premium was over $1400 per month in '06, as if we could afford to continue being insured with that, much less the deductibles and co-pays. I am now on Medicare, my wife is still unemployed and uninsured, and she does not qualify for Medicaid b/c my annual gross disability income is ~$1,000 higher than the maximum, which is based of course on the US and state's annually calculated "poverty income level" of a two person household, (+57%)


No private insurance company should be able to profit from the illnesses, injuries, and suffering of US citizens. IMO. Many rightwingers claim that having medical/dental coverage is a privilege, not a "right" but as far as I know, those who are imprisoned are provided with medical and dental treatment when necessary, unlike tens of millions of the uninsured in the US who are not incarcerated?

But if the Rethugs get their way, with the indirect assistance of a milquetoast Congressional Democratic "leadership" alter, slash, and/or ultimately eliminate SS, SSD, SSDI, Medicaid, and Medicare, we would soon become destitute, homeless, and desperate, but likely would have lots more (likely being tens of millions) of people dependent upon government programs and services joining us. Desperate people have nothing left to lose but their miserable lives, and although I am non-violent, I could see my mostly mild-mannered attitude changing. At what "tipping" point would there be enough homeless and starving people in the US to cause massive rioting and civil insurrections, as why not become, instead of just an irrelevant and insignificant death statistics on a government database, "help" to write a brand-new chapter in US history?

[WillyT]

6. + 1,000,000,000... What You Said !!!

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[Urban Prairie]

7. Thanks WillyT!!

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[Terra Alta]

8. this just breaks my heart

Where is the bank's compassion for these people? Oh that's right they don't have compassion; all they care about is the bottom line.