Howard had been working as an environmentalist in the marine division. He labored long, hard hours on the boats that respond to oil spills. But it was “a bad chain of events” that got him in the most trouble. While he was between contract jobs, Howard suffered a heart attack that required a quadruple bypass. During his recovery from the procedure, Howard was staying in Florida on a friend’s boat when his situation got even worse.
“I blew my left knee out. Tore the meniscus,” he recalls. And because his friend was planning to move his boat up north, Howard had nowhere to go. “I basically ended up homeless.” Howard was stuck with nowhere to turn. “I didn’t have insurance. I couldn’t get my knee fixed. No one will touch me because of the quadruple bypass for a year,” he says.
Right at his lowest point, Sulzbacher was there to pick Howard up and help him feel steady again. Beyond just a place to stay, they’re also helping him get the medical care he needs! “They’re helping me get my life back,” he says. “What more can a man ask for? What I do with it is up to me.”
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