MI ADAPT folks rallied in protest at his hospital room, literally surrounding his bed with their chairs and bodies, and in the process getting tons of media coverage of the hospital's wish to dump Sam. While the media coverage raised public awareness and put a temporary damper on the hospital's plans, the hospital remained determined to dump Sam, thinking MI ADAPT would go away. But no such luck.
Finding a lawyer willing to file for an injunction (court order to temporarily stop the hospital) for free, they swung into phase two of their plan. The only problem, they had three days to prepare the court case. Frantically they called across the USA for facts and figures to support their argument that going to the nursing home would be harmful to Sam. Locally information was found that showed this particular nursing home had a long and sordid history of abuses and similar problems. In addition, folks went into overdrive to find attendant services and an accessible, affordable place for Sam to live.
Though the hospital sneered at the injunction up to the 11th hour, when they all finally showed up outside the courtroom they offered to settle out of court. They agreed to give ADAPT more time to find a place for Sam to move into, and ADAPT (already hot on the trail of several decent options) agreed.
Sam is out in his new place, and hopefully will be joining us in Atlanta. Without the efforts of ADAPT, especially Dusty, Linda Shroyer and Verna Spayth, we can imagine only too easily what Sam's fate might have been.