Observations from Baltimore - Stoops - 1st in a series

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is important in our lives?

 

Over the last two and a half weeks I have been intensely involved as a representative for a hospital patient with liver blood clots.   For privacy reasons I will not identify the patient specifically, but I will recollect here on Realneo, over the coming days, my experiences.   

 

I hope to provide information which may be queried via the internet, and which will provide details and aid to others – preferably before they are in critical condition.

 

I haven’t coalesced my  thoughts entirely - I am still coming down from the experience – so bear with me while I re-engage the web.

 

I will begin – not on a medical note, but rather by looking at the urban environment around Johns Hopkins - thinking also of the similar environment around Cleveland’s University Hospital and the Cleveland Clinic.

 

The community around Johns Hopkins is destitute and reportedly dangerous.  I walked there to view the East Baltimore stoops.  All the stairs in this image lead to vacant homes with boarded front doors.  There are thousands more….

 

What is important in our lives?

 

Each of the houses is about 12 feet wide. The image at the top of this report shows the right side of this street.  All the homes are empty on this block.  Is that important?

 

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