Today we celebrate Steve’s Birthday and 5 years of sobriety and leaving homelessness behind. It was July 7 th 2015 3 days before his birthday when Leigh Ann and I were doing street outreach and came upon Steve in a real serious situation. Steve was laying on the ground in the sleeping back we gave him the week before. As I approached Steve I could see there was something not right. Steve looked up at me and said he could not feel his legs and that he has not been able to walk for 3 days. You can just imagine what that meant him laying there in his own waste broken drunk and trapped. We could not leave him there we called the ambulance followed them up to the hospital and stayed with him through the whole process. Steve’s blood alcohol level was 4.0 at emergency room. We worked with Social Work department at hospital and arranged for Steve to be transported to a rehab center upon discharge for physical therapy to make sure he could walk properly again. During the 4 week stay at rehab we made arrangements for him to get into housing. After the 4 weeks Steve landed in his own place and became our right hand man out on the streets of Syracuse. Now its been 5 years and 3 days from that event and Steve is reunited with his children and living in S. Carolina. Please celebrate with us on Steve’s Day by wishing Him a Happy Birthday.

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John and Leigh