Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Department of Justice Emails Description An account of the resource The Department of Justice received more than 11,000 e-mails in response to the agency's public solicitation for comments upon its plans to distribute the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 established by Congress to benefit the victims of September 11 and their families. These e-mails have been organized here by date. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Monday, January 14, 2002 9:41 PM Injured WTC Victims Dear Sir and/or Madam, I apologize for the long story but the background is necessary. My mother is a survivor of the World Trade Center collapse. She worked at in Tower 2. Her closest co-workers were amongst the employees who were killed. After she ran and walked for 7 hours (in heels) to her home, she was under huge amounts of stress. She suffered panic attacks and intense headaches. She was unable to see a doctor until 9/17/01. That doctor not only ran standard tests on my mother but she took my mother to 's psychiatric emergency room for treatment. I am a resident of Culver City, California. I am the only child of a single parent. I flew from Los Angeles to New York on 9/18/01 to check my mother out of the psychiatric emergency room. While I did this voluntarily (to say the least), nobody else could do it. I was told by the doctors to get her out of NYC ASAP and start her on long term psych care. That night, she suffered a headache so severe that she collapsed in the shower. I managed to get an appointment with a neurologist at . The neurologist heard the whole story and prescribed demerol. He urged me to get my mother psychiatric treatment ASAP. On Monday, 9/24, I took my mother to so that she could be certified to travel with me. She spoke to a social worker and a psychiatrist, both of whom were happy to find out that I had set up appointments for my mother later on that week in Los Angeles. Since the debilitating headaches were continuing, the doctor prescribed more medication and ran an MRI. A bright spot was revealed but the physicians told us she would be okay to travel. We had to follow up with a doctor in Los Angeles. On 9/27/01, my mother's psychiatric treatment started at . On 9/28/01, my mother saw the director of 's pain clinic because the headaches continued. On 9/30/01, I took my mother to the hospital because she was throwing up, she was dehydrated, unable to walk, and unable to see. She was admitted to for a stay that eventually lasted 19 days. The doctors soon determined that she had suffered a stroke that affected her visual cortex. Thankfully (if I can use that word), her sight was the only sense that was affected. Her visual field is reduced so that she can see only a person's eyes if she is looking at that person's face. She can't read. She can't drive. She can't work on a computer. She is on the border of being labelled legally blind and, in fact, she is starting classes at The here in Los Angeles. She is on Worker's Compensation and has been on it since 9/12/01. Her employer, her employer's Worker's Comp insurance company, and her physicians all believe that her stroke was caused by the stress of her building collapse. Because her situation is atypical -- if not unique -- I have had a horrible time trying to get assistance from the Red Cross. I am getting more help from (the Worker's Comp insurance company) than from any other entity. I work for a startup company that is suffering from the economic downturn (I know everyone's going through that). In order to keep my job and care for my mother, filling out forms and calling institutions that keep me on hold for hours gets relegated to the wee hours, if that. My mother is disabled. This is most likely permanent. As a result, she may never be able to go back to work. The lost income puts her apartment (on which she has a mortgage) in jeopardy. It puts her ability to pay for her own living expenses in jeopardy. The DOJ stipulation that an injured person must have sought medical care within 24 hours of the building collapse is, quite frankly, unacceptable. My mother was ignoring her own pain and suffering because of the deaths of her friends and colleagues. Eliminating this stipulation is of paramount importance to my mother and myself. I don't know whether you have noticed but it is very difficult to gather information about assistance and/or support groups for injured survivors. I understand that the families of those who were killed are suffering. They should know that my mother suffers with them. They should know that I suffer with them. Nevertheless, the survivors should not be ignored nor should they be discriminated against. I thank you for your time. Individual Comment Culver City, CA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-14 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource dojN001596.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-01-14