Guys. And thank you for being on top of this. No ones called our family, and my grandmother is going to be 85 years old. Something like this we should have been made aware of right away. It is a trying time right now because my grandmother is up in age. She doing well. She doesnt have a fever. Just the regular aches and pains a normal 85 would have. I have reached out to this facility to get more information. They have not returned my calls. The Health Department is only giving out the numbers here. The Health Department has notices up on the doors as well only allowing certain visitors. Now as to the time frame on when these patients had covid19, that is unclear this evening. I did talk with the Maintenance Worker here who didnt have any details about what happened, only saying that he has been wearing gloves and also a mask. It is important to note that we have been Wearing Masks out here as well, but have taken those off for this report. Well continue to follow this story and have n
Honor for me to be speaking with you today. Guest thank you. Host as i read your book, what a hard it must have been for you to write. You uncovered so many deep extremely painful parts of your past and families. Can you tell me more about your writing process and when and how you decide decide to go about wg this book . Guest the writing process was starting to come together in 2017 i wrote a story for the New York Times about what happened to my exhusband and was called the lawyer of the addict. It was about a years worth of research and writing about it and exploring it with my family and children and seeing if it was okay with them to go ahead and tell the world of this story and figure out why we were doing it and what it meant to us. All of it was largely to make some kind of meaning out of something that felt almost arbitrary and shameful and kelsey, and also to try to understand what was going on with peter and also in the Legal Profession in terms of Substance Use and depressi
I think the writing process started even before the book was starting to come together in 2,017 i wrote a story for the New York Times about what happened to my exhusband peter and it was called the lawyer, the addict. I did a lot of research for that piece and thinking about it and exploring it with my family, with my children and seeing if it was okay with them to go ahead and tell the world the story and figure out why we were doing it and what it meant to us. All of it was largely to make some kind of meaning out of something that felt almost arbitrary and shameful and we felt guilty about. Also to try to understand what was going on for peter and under stand what was going on in the Legal Profession in terms of Substance Abuse, depression and anxiety. After that came with it surprisingly had a viral life and had millions of shares and i got a lot of feedback from readers, especially Young Lawyers who said im worried im gonna wind up like your exhusband. Facing a lot of the same is
Im chair of the committee and to my right and supervisor stephani and supervisor walton and were joined by supervisor hainey and i want to thank corwin coolee for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, any announcements . Please make your you have silenced your stones and cell p. Items acted upon will appear on the march 10, 2020 agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you, are clerk. Please all our first item. An ordinance to require the medical examiner to report information to the mayor, the board of supervisors and the director of health each month regarding deaths from Drug Overdoses. Thank you, supervisor hainey, this item is yours. Yes, thank you, chair. Im here, again, with you, committee to again discuss what we can t do to take action on te most deadly epidemic facing our city which is the Drug Overdose epidemic. Drug use and drug overuse deaths in San Francisco and across california, as we all know have been increasing at a terrifying rate and today, people in our cities are dying
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