In the regions

How to become anyone?

December 28, 2011 Violetta Tokareva

I will answer right away: very easy - just lose your passport. Or, speaking of the legal language, “lose” for some reason. However, these reasons are also worried about few.
I remember that I used to be surprised, reading some extraordinary adventures described by the authors of LJ. And I thought: “No, well, it happens to people, but somehow everything is usually for me. Neither the epic with a short letter by the Russian Post, nor a fascinating story about how I thumped last Friday in Voronezh, and woke up the next Monday somewhere in Lisks. ”
Voila. As a result, a story happened, after which I finally became convinced that my country is shit.
On November 17, at about 10 pm, we found a grandmother at the stop, who was crumbling from the cold on the bench. I agree that the phrase “found a grandmother” sounds wildly, however, this is so. And “we” are my girlfriend and my girlfriend-representatives of a very unloved LGBT community in this country, which is engaged in “propaganda of homosexuality among minors.”

The granny clearly introduced herself to Anna Vasilyevna Zavyalova born in 1938. It seems not a homeless person, not drunk, agreed that we bought her tea, and asked for a sandwich with chicken breast. “So soft and without cabbage. I just can eat him, ”she said to a orphaned mouth. Although no, lying, she has a tooth. One.

The temperature on the street is below zero, dark. Nearby people are a bus stop still, but everyone stands with their backs to us. We looked at each other and called the police - to find out what social service in this case can be transferred to the old woman.
“The car left,” the dispatcher answered on the phone.
About 15 minutes later, a police bobik stopped nearby. From there, three healthy cops of ninety -meter crawled out. Smile. “Well, why did you call us? - Ask with a grin. - This grandmother has been sitting here for five years. Do you think how can we help her? "
“Nothing,” we answer, “they just wanted to ask the operator where you can determine the grandmother at night.”
- Do you understand that all calls are recorded?
- And what?
- And the fact that we must go to each call. So let's go now to write an application for a false call.
I barely climbed into a high rear seat with its sixty meter.
“To the head of the city police department, Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Kotov. Next, write from whom, at what address you live, ”the policeman dictates to me. - Next, describe why you drew attention to the old woman. Yeah, late at night sat at the stop. Alone? Are you joking? Yes, you know how many of them in the city are sitting alone!? Further what? ""
“Date and signature,” I answer.
- No matter how. Write: by the time the police arrived, the grandmother disappeared in an unknown direction. What do you look? Write, write. And you will not call us next time. You understand that we are not bad, but the structure of the police rotten through and through. We cannot help. We can only take into the monkey for three hours and then provided that the grandmother violated public order, that is, cursed obscenities and fought. So if I do so, the whole department will laugh! And we have no shelters in the city.

“Understand,” a healthy man explains to me as a first -grader, “nobody needs homeless people in this country, and the police will not help here.” This structure was lowered below the baseboard.
And the citizen Zavyalova herself could not leave. That night we took her into an empty apartment in a taxi. She walked barely.

Quest

The next morning, the smell of an unwashed human body we felt on the landing. Grandmother sat on the blankets that we laid and complained that she poured hydrogen peroxide from the bubble. She treated her wounds on her legs, which turned into a continuous purulent mess almost on the very knees. The ambulance arrived in 15 minutes.
While Anna Vasilievna talked about the fact that at five she was the prisoner of a concentration camp with her mother, we thought that the old woman was a “dead soul”. She has no documents, including a passport and insurance certificate. The only thing we have seen for this morning - her house, Murmansky Lane, 35a, really burned out. This is a one -story decrepit builder with a broken roof and an entrance to the gate littered with garbage. A neighboring man in a home cocoon and a jacket on his naked body said that the house was burned about 10 years ago, and "the grandmother was still that shooting."

“I dragged all the garbage into the house, so it caught fire once. And she also had a “black” daughter -in -law. Well, you understand what it means. The grandmother and now have relatives who are waiting for her death. Yes, what the dick who needs in this country?! So you do not do this - my advice to you, ”he said.
After about an hour, Anna Vasilievna was already groaning in the ambulance car on the potholes of the road at the entrance to the city hospital No. 3.
"What? Homeless? Without documents? Then they would be brought to the BSMP (an ambulance hospital), why here? Mmm ... but you do not need to take your leg. This is not a gangrene, more like a neglected thrombosis of the veins. Well, I take it. Here it smacks of a quest, but I love it. Roll it, ”said an already gray -haired surgeon Alexei Alekseich and ran to smoke a thin already gray -haired surgeon.

Meanwhile, there was nothing to roll up on - all sitting gaps were busy.
- And how many of them do you have? - I ask.
- Two.
- Not oily.
- We are upgrading. It used to be one and a half, - the doctor is Yern.
The truth is said that surgeons are distinguished by specific humor. And the case really turned out to be the beginning of the quest.
Tomorrow there will be a week, our grandmother lies in the surgical department of this hospital and once a day in twenty minutes overcomes a ten -meter distance from the ward to a dressing room and back.

I published this post in my LiveJournal on November 24. More than a month has passed since that time, but in fact, the matter has not moved. More than a month ago, we submitted documents to receive a new passport for my grandmother. We have not done this piece of citizen so far, and the old woman still does not even have an insurance medical pole. From the first hospital, the granny was discharged after three weeks later, I had to drag it into another. There, judging by the letter from the regional department of health, we can only leave it for a month. But where to go later? The design in the nursing home lasts about two months, but this is subject to a passport. There are no shelters in the city. Employees of the social service in confusion. They say that for the first time they were faced with such a situation, and they look at the floor guiltily.

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