Currently patient and care giver have insufficient social services;  additional nursing of six hours per day being essential to this class patient.

Spousal care giver is beginning to physically breakdown and is emotionally and physically exhausted.

Patient has never received the appropriate bed, with Trendelenberg capability.  As a consequence the patient's bowels are afflicted.  This will diminish her prospects of long-term recovery.

Patient receives no physical therapy nor brain scans.

Patient cannot afford to purchase an $18,000 pupillary tracking apparatus that would enable her to communicate, write letters and poetry, change TV and Radio stations and basically relate to care givers her needs, likes and dislikes.
 

Patient has been and is effectively without physician since leaving UCLA in January of 1997.

Household remains under continued threat from California Franchise Tax Board who had already removed over one thousand dollars from their account for not sending in their 1996 Tax Return, even though such moneys had already been deducted in 1996 from the patient's payroll.

Spouse caregiver has insufficient funds to pay for his own medical coverage and currently has none.