Today Might Be The Day

 Since finding an apartment in Columbia. County, Georgia or the surrounding area's, seems impossible.  I am following my first thought and seriously considering a one bed and bath or even a yurt.  What ever, the first interest is getting out of this skilled nursing home.  The sooner I get home, the sooner I will get back to  living life again.  I can feel my self withering away here.  My brown hair is now silver. 

Between, yelling night and day here and the aged mental health problems days are often long.  I have in three days found four different people sleeping in my bed. Since we have no privacy, roommates view you using the bathroom, changing clothes, and preparing for your day. The idea of living the rest of my life in a 14' by 28 ' room, with no privacy,  wearing borrowed clothes, if there happen to be returned from the laundry once the clothes have been washed with only god knows what.  Currently I am listening to a patient screaming that she wants more snacks.

These are two of my favorite children.  These are the kids that saved my life after I suffered a stroke at home.  They have been waiting for me to come home.   One day I will get there,  I just don't know when.  They take turns sleeping in my bed to keep it warm for me.

I am praying soon, and we will bake cookies.  All you can eat. Every flavor!

The wait for housing is horrible, I am on three lists, each longer than the next.  The city of Harlem, Georgia is my first choice.  But the waiting list is 3 to 5 years just to get on the list.  Once on the list, there is no promise of even seeing an apartment. Augusta is worse, the wait just to get on the list in between 5 and 8 years!

Please consider making a donation.  To build a small house for my self, will cost about $ 25,000 without any extras.  Any Donation is welcome and appreciated.

Sandra Welch

6698 Washington Road

Appleing, Georgia

30802

This Man Called Mr Beast

Dear Mister Beast,

    I am a grand mother from Georgia,  and my grand children were home when I suffered a stroke.  These two took the lead from me and saved my life.  By contacting our 9-1-1 fire department dispatch, and making sure to lay out our address and phone number clearly,they made me so proud. By even putting our dog in his kennel to keep him from following the paramedics, as he loves chasing anything loud.  

With in minutes our little neighborhood was filled with neighbors, friends, family and fire trucks and ambulances.  I did not see home for the next year, as healing from the stroke took longer than expected.   But a great rehab center happened to be taking new patients near by.  I went to Walton Rehab center and did the the 60 day push.  True to their word, I left about 60 days later.  I was thrilled to be with my  friends  and family.  However, it wouldn't last for long.  In fact I was home exactly one day when I fell.  This fall would not only send me back to the hospital, but cause a small brain bleed. 

I would be sent to a skilled nursing home, Keysville, Ga.  The year I spent there was filled with therapy. Being far from home was difficult.  So when I was offered the chance to come here I took it.  I was supposed to be closer to home, able to see my grand children more, and more better therapy.   This is Lake Crossing.  And there is little to be happy about here.  The food is not edible. The employees are lacking proper training.  The company just sold to The Reserves at Appleing.  Like any place there are some good and some bad. But as the payee of my bills here, I am finding this place,  less and less desirable.

I have been in three nursing homes and one Rehab center.  Pruitt, Keysville, Walton's Way, and Lake Crossing.  I have worked hard enough that I have been able to return to church and Sunday's at my sister's home.  But I lost my housing, the only reason I am still here and not gone home yet.  I have a short list of needs in my small home,  like clothes racks lowered to reached the closet better and the kitchen counters lowered.  I  know this seems like such a demand, but I can afford a small mortgage.   I need to return to  volunteering for Special Olympics, traveling with the team, fundraising, my granddaughters dance recitals, birth days, school programs, and my family.  

Thank you for your time,

Sandra Dale Welch

Journey Medical Center

6698 Washington Road 

Room; A-13 

Appleing, Ga

30802

706-361-3855

I Really Need To Go Home, Please Consider A Tax Deductible Donation,Please

Christmas 2023 did not bring happiness or joy, but sadness and fear.  As we tied bows on the Christmas fudge and roasted pecans preparing then to mail to family and friends.  

    My left arm went numb, followed by my left knee buckling under me.  Before I knew it, I was on the floor with my arm between the hot oven and the cupboard beside it.  I was in a dangerous situation,  But my grandchildren knew how to help and not become

scared by the fire department or EMT's .

  

    Before long our little neighbor hood was overrun with neighbors, friends, family and emergency personnel.The children were told  that they had done every thing right And saved Nana. 

    I have the double Factor V Leiden gene, so I am on blood thinners for the rest of my life. luckily was found in my early adulthood.

 Before long our little neighbor hood was overrun with neighbors, friends, family and emergency personnel.The children were told  that they had done every thing right And saved Nana. 

    

The First picture of mt after my stroke,
This was taken around Feb. 15th, 2024,
The first time I sat up in bed on my own.
Co-vid caused shortages in supply of materials needed to produce the swings to carry people. 

  I have missed so much being here.  New babies born, dance recitals, all the holidays, birth days,weddings, church programs,graduations, and helping my son's Special Olympic team are examples of some of the many things I have missed so much.

 

This  is where you can help.  I lost my housing after the stoke.  And am working on find raisers to make enough to make build a small home, built to suit my special needs.  Any help would be appreciated .

                                    This is my first day

                                     at Walton's Way for

                                     for more intensive 

                                     therapy.

My mailing address:

 Sandra Welch

c/o Journey Skilled Nursing and Rehab

6698 Washington Road

Appling, Georgia

30802

This Thing Called Salisbury Steak (A Rose By Any Other Name, Would Stink Just The Same)

 By Now other people are becoming aware of the situation I am in.  I am still working on either a small 

house or at this point a bridge to live under, like a troll.  I am serious, between the theft here, the sense of 

complacency by employees, poor food, lack of training,  stolen clothes, aged materials, and the high 

 

over turn I am ready to do anything to leave this place. 

 One of worst things other than burnt fake eggs,   is over abundance of Salisbury steak. It is served at least

once a day. As typical Salisbury on or off the bun, 

always drenched with gravy or nicknamed hamburger steak of course  tasting noting like hamburger or 

steak. Potatoes are usually served in mass amounts.    Smashed, instant, fried, or boiled.  And just as bland.     

So of the food here.  Steak and gravy, with those instant potato.

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The second cold shower this week is the last straw.  When

 things as simple as having hot water to bath in is

 a problem then it is seriously time to look elsewhere. I am

not alone, others are begging their families for help too. 

I can gripe all day, but it would not help.

The best thing I can do, is BEG people to help.  I am looking for help building a small cottage home. 

 Nothing fancy.  And just big enough to get me out of here! 

The Skilled Nursing Care was at one point in my life needed, but, I am cleared to go home as soon as I can 

find housing that can suit my needs  I still take physical therapy and for a short time a nurse will check on

me, but other than needing housing I am free to go.

If you can help and willing please consider making a donation.  

Thank you.

Sandra Welch

6698 Washington  Road

Room A 13

Appling, Ga

30802

How My Grandchildren Saved Christmas (And Myself)

My grandchildren would save my life. Taught to dial 9-1-1 during an emergency, and to do it without panicking.  Became a well learned lesson.  While my grandson Toby put our dog in the kennel.  My grand daughter called 9-1-1. When I say my super hero's don't wear capes but book bags I am not pretending.  

I was sent to Pruitt first then several months later to Walton's Way. I worked every hour of the intense therapy to recovery.  I was I went through the intensive physical therapy. And was thrilled to be going home for the first time in nearly a year!  I finished the program a little early, something that added to my joy!

I think had more to do with the excitement of going home than just my will to finish the program early, but to get home to my family.

But things never seem to happen as planned or hoped.  I arrived at home to a celebration.  Then the worst thing happened,  I fell backward flat on my back.  I was transported to Doctor's Hospital. I was there again for another couple of weeks.  I was taken to Keysville for rehab again.  This time staying until March 2024. I have been here in Lakes Crossing since January of 2025.  And I am ready to go home! What was intended to be a hospital stay of 3 days but up ended up being two years.

So two years of  time are holidays, church, bible school, my grand daughters dance recitals, my grandsons gymnastics, meals out, family get to gatherings, and collage graduations are lost.

I am now 60 years old and free leave when I can find a home.

I have tried pubic housing, but the wait is 2 years to 5 years. And that is in Columbia, County, Georgia. In Augusta, the wait is up to five years, just to get on the waiting lists!  And no promise that one will open up.  I am stuck here in a nursing home until I find a cheap piece of land to build on. 

The cost of the nursing home, leaves me with coins to buy the items I need like body wash and toothpaste. And nothing left to buy clothing or even new personable items.

It just seems buying a Granny Flat for one person, makes better sense.  Some A-frames begin at $ 12,000 and Granny Flats begin around $ 20,000. I am looking into even Yurts to just get out of here!  So, after several fundraising tries I am going a different route.  I am now BEGGING for help. I am here until I find an affordable Granny Flat  or A-frame that will  suit  my new special needs. Thank you.

  

Sandra Welch

C/O Journey Nursing Care  and Rehab

6698 Washington Road

To Sandra Welch

Room A 13

Appling, GA 30802

  When my hair was not 

grey.

I Need To Find A Granny Flat; And Fast!!

 I have been up and down the internet, looking for help to find people willing to help 

me buy a Granny Flats. Affordable and priced right. These are just samples the

 Granny Flats I am interested in. After several attempts at fundraising with no luck, 

I am doing this the old fashioned way.  I am BEGGING for funds to help me purchase 

  one, maybe two bedroom, singe bath, basic kitchen and laundry to put on a 1/2

 maybe 1/4 acre plot.  I would like to rent a spot and give it or donate it when I pass 

away. I am not asking for a freebie, but to lease a small plot.

There are things I would love to do art wise, like

fairies, art work, stained glass, and lots of

custom work.  This is me about a year after the 

stroke.  I was getting ready to leave Pruitt, in Evans, 

Georgia, thank God.  It was awful there.  CNA'a

were often rude and spiteful. But I got a good break 

Rehab.  Two weeks later, I went home.  A took a bad 

fall. After there, I was sent to Keysville, Ga. The stay

 there was good for the most part.  But I over stayed 

and over my medical

care.  I am now at Lake Crossing which is a recent 

purchase of Journey.  That brings me here.  Waiting 

to find housing.  Public housing is full 

with a two to five year waiting list, just to get  

on another list and look at a 

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place. 

So instead I am looking to build a small one or two 

bed room, Granny Flat. I plan on 

going As cheap as possible. And Begging the 

public for help, Get this Grandma 

Home, please! Perhaps someone knows some one 

interested in helping.

Thank you,

Sandra Welch

6698 Wrightsboro Road

Appling, Georgia 30802

https://www.paypal.com/mep/fundsmanagement/money?entryPoint=money_ti

gofund.me./c12304829

These are  two of the three beautiful grandchildren I need to get home too!