Tony’s not doing well
Written by admin2 on September 16th, 2009Filed under: Themes, Bum Deal
Remember Tony Clemens, the warmhearted homeless blogger we first profiled in March 2008 and then again in October ‘08?
Tony’s not doing so well.
Updates…after the jump
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Quoting Tony, on homelessmanspeaks.com, September 3, 2009:
I never told you about the times Sharon [Tony's younger sister] and me got taken away by Children’s Aid. Once when they had us, then they decided not to give Sharon her bottle and she was bawling. Believe it or not, I escaped from the CAS building and got her her bottle and I even escaped back in with her milk bottle and gave it to her. No one’s going to take away my sister’s milk bottle if I can help it, if you know what I mean.
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Quoting Philip Stern, on homelessmanspeaks.com, September 4, 2009:
Tony has decided to go to St. Joseph Hospital. He’s got a notable bulge in his central abdomen. Surprisingly it’s not painful but it is somewhat hard-to-the-touch. I’ll update you as soon as I hear from him.
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Quoting Tony, on homelessmanspeaks.com, September 8, 2009:
The doc says she thinks I might of had a stroke but that’s different and this bump in my chest is stress. She’s right because I’ve had big-time stress the last months and I was pretty dizzy the other day too. I’ll tell you about that later. So the doctor said I should be staying [at] the hospital but of course she knows me and I ain’t staying. That would just be putting me in a broom closet—there’s no way I was staying. Anyway, you just have to keep going.
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Quoting Tony, on homelessmanspeaks.com, September 10, 2009:
If I can collect another $8, I’ve got a bed for the night, and it’s in a basement where it’s nice and cool.
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Quoting Tony, on homelessmanspeaks.com, September 14, 2009:
With all this construction on Roncesvalles [Avenue] right now, I’m getting a bit worried some of these stores won’t make it. I can tell you I’m not doing so well either, if you know what I mean.
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Quoting Philip Stern, on homelessmanspeaks.com, September 15, 2009:
Hi Everyone, I haven’t seen Tony in nearly 5 days—if you see him, please ask him to give me a ring—he’s got my number. Thank you.
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Keep up-to-date at homelessmanspeaks.com
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Tony’s in need of a street nurse in Toronto.
Someone who will find him and help him…
Quoting street nurse Cathy Crowe, speaking to The Toronto Star back in January:
“We’ve been calling for warming centres for the homeless for years. All we have is a referral centre, where you can have coffee or tea but there’s no hot food and you can’t lie down to sleep. They’ll try to get you into a shelter or into an ‘Out of the Cold’ church program, if they’re not full. It’s inadequate.” Through the ’80s Crowe was a public health nurse working in the inner city who grew increasingly horrified at the scope of homelessness in Canada’s largest and most prosperous city. A homeless man described her as a “street nurse” and in 2002 she was featured in a documentary film of the same name. Today, “street nursing” has become part of the curriculum of nursing schools and, for many a student with a social conscience, a desirable career ambition. To Crowe, the relationship between nursing and homelessness is self-evident.
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