Many home care patients who say they rely heavily on the Community Care Access Centre vow to fight until their service is restored. Sandra Havens has multiple sclerosis and a history of bladder infections that once lasted up to two years. She's doing well today because of CCAC services, but says that could change now that her home care has been cut. "Not being able to have my showers may cause me to go back into that cycle and I'm afraid of that," says Havens. "That's a very serious problem because as soon as I get sick, I get down, I get a temperature, I can hardly even stand and I cannot get dressed." Havens says the CCAC classifies her as stable, which led them to cut her only two hours a week. "The whole system is bringing everybody down and just saying go ahead, lay down and die," says Havens. "I'm not willing to do that and I'm willing to fight more."
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