Robert Skierkiewicz

My name is Robert and I was in a Harley accident on 4/8/16 and went on Social Security Disability because I injured myself in my spinal cord very severely. I then was in a coma for 10 days and when I came out of it they said I would never walk again and after three and a half years of taking the medications at the doctors prescribed I finally walked away from them all literally. And then I was able to get out and start exercising again and move myself in ways that I did not think I would ever be able to do because I was completely paralyzed on the left side of my body from damage to my C1 C2 and T5 vertebrae. All that said last year on June 6th I took off on a walkabout Across America to go visit the people that had stood by my side after I was in my accident. I rode a bicycle and walked all the way across the country and around in a big giant Circle all visible on my Facebook page as people were following me who are my family members. It took 1 1/2 years... Then when I got back to the Oregon I was completely without anything because everyone had stolen everything that I owned. My bicycle was stolen in New York City but I retrieved another one through some hard work and effort on the east coast and was able to make it all the way down to Mississippi and do volunteer work in Lake Charles Louisiana and Moss Point Mississippi for hurricane damage from all the Hurricanes we had last year. This was all a part of my self prescribed physical therapy program. Then I went to California visit the rest of my family and one of spending three months in Oroville California doing fire damage volunteer work and guess what I'm able to walk again however I still have a limp and I'm still in lots of pain but I'm not on medication. You talked in your broadcast today about me. I get 529.00 in social security, 129 I food assistance and inflation and Covid has me homeless with no ladder up because I'm still disabled and unable to do no more than menial tasks,most which involve my day to day survival...firewood,water, a daily hike to charge my phone etc. Tomorrow I will be 61 years of age and I'm disappointed, confused and falling thru the cracks of despair and helplessness. I AM the face of the forgotten American.