chiggerbit wrote:Nevermind my question to Anita. I found I had the answer all along--he had the surgery in Springfield, MO. Weird facility, if it's the one I think it is. Looks spooky to me.
It's a nightmare to think about it. I had just gone public with some of Michael's prior warning letters, next thing you know, he's shipped off to Springfield and tossed into the hole. He had been diagnosed with prostate cancer and there was reluctance at the prison to acknowledge his rapidly rising psa as a problem. We tried to suggest facilities that could handle the surgery because they were dragging their feet. They waited, then finally sent him to Springfield for his surgery, losing his medical charts in the process. He arrived at the facility where there was an inmate who had previously attacked him, so he was put into solitary confinement for his own protection. The reasons don't change the environment, he got one phone call per month, a one inch pencil, and was not given time out of his cell, even though it is required that they give an hour for exercise. I have drawers full of medical documents, prison paperwork and letters from that time period, trying to get his medical record straightened out and get the surgery done before it was too late. He was in the hole for more than six months, suffering severe complications from the prostate surgery and being left without medical supplies. I recall mentioning it on the radio show and I also did set up a defense fund for Michael. VM makes it sound like I called her begging for money, that is ridiculous. In the end, I spent a lot of money on a lawyer who did nothing, the case was too big for him to take pro bono and I couldn't pay his fees. Right now Michael's dealing with people sending NMN "articles" to assorted prisoners trying to instigate problems. This also happened during the Thompson trial, VM posted the puppetmaster hit piece (memorialized on this thread) on the opening day of the trial, then the article was sent into the prison to several inmates. I guess the NMN girls are angry at their current exposure and working a little retaliation.