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Caretaker: He did smell absolutely terrible. He would, never shower, ever. Um, and when he lived with me, uh, he was really big into running. He would run 10 miles a day, uh, he used to like 5K races and other stuff like that. He would, he would run like 10 miles and then just refuse to take a shower and all I could smell was, just, sweat throughout my house. | Caretaker: He did smell absolutely terrible. He would, never shower, ever. Um, and when he lived with me, uh, he was really big into running. He would run 10 miles a day, uh, he used to like 5K races and other stuff like that. He would, he would run like 10 miles and then just refuse to take a shower and all I could smell was, just, sweat throughout my house. | ||
Caretaker: Yeah, I think when he lived with me he maybe had taken three or four showers? And that was over the course of like I said, maybe eight months. | Caretaker: Yeah, I think when he lived with me he maybe had taken three or four showers? And that was over the course of, like I said, maybe eight months. Um.. we are certified, [https://www.crisisprevention.com/Our-Programs/Nonviolent-Crisis-Intervention it's called NVCI, Non Violent Crisis Intervention]<ref>https://www.crisisprevention.com/Our-Programs/Nonviolent-Crisis-Intervention</ref>, um basically we can go hands on with an individual, like if they need to be restrained. Some agencies, they're hands off. I don't know how that would ever work with Daniel. | ||
Caretaker: Um, but I mean, there were some weeks where I was restraining him multiple times a day, and I'd restrain him because he was hurting himself. He would bash his head into the wall so much. Yeah, just bleeding from his face. I mean, one time I took him to the hospital, he was doing it so hard and he literally started bleeding from, like, one of his eyelids. | |||
Curator: Other than when he bit your arm, was there any incidents where you had to call the police on him? | |||
Caretaker: I try not to call the cops in my home. Some providers they basically have 911 on speed dial. Um.. I only call, like, when it's truly out of my control. Um.. I think I only called the cops on him twice. Um.. most of the time it was truly like, uh, like for example he was obsessed with mac n' cheese. If we no longer had mac n' cheese and I had to make him something else, it'd become extremely escalated and just start like, kicking over and over and over again, holes in all the walls, um, that's kind of the farthest extent it came. | |||
Caretaker: Sometimes he was like, he'd be mad at me, again for any, like, the most pointless things, like it's- anything thats just an inconveniance to him, he would get frustrated, um. I mean, yeah, like every day, just looked like he would get frustrated, i would have to restrain him, then he'd get pissed, and like, he'd run away for a couple hours, go for a run, come back, then he'd spend the night in his room. Then the next day we wake up and everything seemed like, you know, he'd act like nothing happened. | |||
Caretaker: And then later that night, it'd happen again, um, and I guess one time he went ballistic, uh.. hit his head on the wall. He took one of my kitchen chairs, threw it across the room at a, uh, another roommate. Um.. as I was trying to grab him, to kind of just protect myself and everyone else around him, and himself, um.. i remember he went to- he tried grabbing one of the kitchen knives, um.. and that was pretty scary. | |||
Caretaker: Um.. I had to like hold him on the ground, because he kept saying he was gonna kill me. Um.. and then shortly after that he had a sharps restriction, so I was not allowed to have any sharp- I couldn't have knives, I couldn't even have forks out in the open, everything had to be locked in my house. You know, I guess- I guess I just kind of like wanted to silence all, like, the people out there. Its like, "you shouldn't judge him", like, "our systems so broken", "we need to help these people". | |||
Caretaker: it's like, there's issues in the system, but like Colorado specifically, as I- I would say it's the leading state as far of taking care of individuals disabilities, the services offered in Colorado are far better than any other state. So it's like, for some of these people saying the system failed him, that's.. no, and it's - it's very, like, I work with so many individuals, it's so hard to get to the point where Daniel is. | |||
Caretaker: I mean actually one big incident, I- I've said quite a bit of them already. I don't know if I said this, um, the biggest incident that I had with him that really emotionaly, just, enraged me, um.. I have a three-legged cat. At the time, it was maybe, two years old, and Dan was there, um, he tried having sex with my cat. Yeah, he, um.. his roommate reported to me- yeah, so um.. his roommate walked in his room, yeah, and luckily the roommate loves my cat, and like, actually takes care of him. | |||
Caretaker: Um.. so when he saw that, he freaked out, ran in my room, got me, I went in there, Daniel was like, putting on his clothes and like, the cat was there. So like, I mean, I didn't see it happen, but I would have no reason- his roommate would have no reason to make that type of allegation being how that cat was in his room, which it shouldn't have been. | |||
Caretaker: Because how he's putting clothes on, I mean, I'd have to it was, you know, that's what happened. Yeah like, at my house, the rule was, I didn't want my cat in either of their rooms. | |||
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