“I have a problem to get the medication,” Magdalena O’Neill told nurse practitioner Jean Bernhardt. O’Neill explained she came to the mobile clinic at Our Lady of Guadalupe hoping to get a prescription she needed. “This medication help [sic] me for all the pain,” she said.
“This is something that we don’t have here, and we can’t prescribe here,” Bernhardt said. She recommended a clinic in Houston that could provide the meds and the dental care O’Neill needs, free of charge. But it’s 40 miles away from O’Neill’s home.
Martin said she’s been struck by the fact that some people here just don’t see any opportunity for themselves outside of the home they know, even if it’s been completely devastated.