Bankruptcy-Court-and-Haldol

In re: Karen Marie Kline, pro se                                 Case No: 11-05-17182-SS

      COMES NOW, Karen Marie Kline, pro se, and states: I get $598 Social
Security now. They had said I’d get it in November, 2007, but it started in
December. I called but couldn’t understand or remember why they said it had
changed. I heat with candles. It was cold in December and January, but it is heat
I can count on and I’m saving money. I should be able to pay my Chapter 11
filing fee over some months.

      Because I am going into foreclosure again I will explain the things that are
causing this extremely distressing event and I attach a copy of the Order from
my Chapter 13 that I am relying on.

      One thing is the violations of the automatic stay. They were shattering.

Another is my mental disability. It is hard to get accommodation. In my 1997
Chapter 11 I had difficulty thinking and could not keep two different hearings
held on one day straight. I had difficulty thinking and talking at the same time,
luckily the Court allowed me to read what I prepared.

Several things have contributed to my mental disability. In chronological

order they are low vitamin B12, known to cause depression and cognition
dysfunction; Haldol and possibly the associated trauma in 1998; and, falling and
hitting my head on the brick floor in 2001 after I was living in hydrogen sulfide
caused by the privy pit under my condo and I had begun to lose feeling. After
my fall I have no memory of going for the x rays that are in my medical file, and
since then my memory has ranged from nonexistent to impaired. I am very slow
when I do and think things.

The Haldol experience was traumatic because of the force used to
administer it and the fact that lies were used to justify the force as well as the
Haldol which made me shuffle, blurred my vision and caused me to shake and
have difficulty talking. The shaking is called tardive dyskinesia when it becomes
permanent and then there is no known cure. I hope it does not come back.
When I was taken from the bankruptcy court’s clerk’s office to UNM Mental
Health Center I was never allowed to face my accusers who said I had been
barricaded in at the IRS building threatening to kill people. That was false, but I
had an expensively dressed court appointed lawyer who trotted out the things
she apparently always trotted out and it was decided to forcefully administer
Haldol to me, which in some cases is known to cause death. I now understand
why the other people at the Center thought the lawyer was a joke. But not funny.

Since the Haldol I have not been able to think in the same way I was able

to think prior to that drug and experience. I can’t put things together the way that
I was able to before. At first I had nightmares about not being able to get to my
thoughts; I wrote some down. When I asked the neurologist, Dr. Baten, about it
he said it could be the trauma or a physical change in my brain from the Haldol.
I have tried to deal with the trauma but I still am scared a lot of the time which I
understand is typical with post traumatic stress disorder. I have not been able to
regain my ability to think complex things in the way that I was able to before.
Now, if I can make a complex thing linear, then I can “think” about it, otherwise
it’s as if it won’t fit into my mind.

     I don’t know if Haldol does what it did to me to everyone, or if it does this
when vitamin B12 levels are low and nerves are vulnerable, or if it did it because
prior to the forced injections I was unable to sleep for five or six nights due to
nasal drainage and UNM’s refusal to give me vitamin A which I have used for
many years to control the drainage. UNM said that vitamin A is too dangerous.
UNM’s statement in view of their use of Haldol in the absence of any testing
gives insight into the woeful reality of “treatment” of mental disability and illness
in the United States.

      From my experience I must conclude that the kind of inhuman treatment
without rights that I experienced is bad for society as a whole. How can any
good come from destroying a part of someone’s mind? especially when the part
that is destroyed is that used to evaluate and make connections between things.
How many “mentally ill” mass killers were made incapable of using their
working memories by so called “treatment” that has taken from them the breaks
that would be put on by proper thinking and full ability to weigh things and
consider connections and outcomes?

      Because the Court by its nature is composed of influential people to whom
others will listen when they will not hear my words of caution, if you have an
opportunity to affect for the better the way that drugs are forced on people,
please take that opportunity to promote reduction in the use of drugs which alter
people’s minds beyond their control, and to stop drugging done without due
process on the basis of unverified accusations from unchallengeable accusers. If
it had been a traffic ticket I would have had a right to face the policeman who
gave me the ticket, but because I was accused of a mental problem I was denied
the right to face my accuser. The consequences of that to the rest of my life are
appalling. But what is most shocking is that if this was done to me, in the way
that it was done, then it surely is done repeatedly to many others.

      When I was tested, thereafter, by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation,
my working memory was shown to be reduced by half.

      In daily life as long as I am going along doing one thing I can manage. But
when that thing becomes more complicated, as for instance if I have to call for
tech support, then I can say what I have been doing, but when the tech gives me
an answer, I can’t assimilate it. I can’t ask about it or discuss the meaning of the
answer. If the answer is something with steps and the tech will stay on the line to
help me from step to step, then I have a solution that may have taken four times
as long as when I was mentally able, but which is nonetheless a solution.

      Sometimes techs insist that the answer is too obvious for there to be a
problem. The fact that it is not obvious to me is incomprehensible to them. For
instance, I was able to make enough money to pay my mortgage each month by
trading stocks. It was good exercise for my mind because of the different facets
to a stock. But TD Ameritrade changed their Command Center which had
helped me do things quickly enough to trade -- loss of speed is a significant
problem for me since the traumatic brain injury when I fell and hit my head.
Because I can write more easily and clearly than I can talk, probably because it’s
slower, I emailed TD Ameritrade for tech support. I got misinformation and no
solution to the problem of the new Command Center showing only the cents
after I put in a change to my order. Because I couldn’t remember the dollar
amount I needed to be able to see it.

      After months of asking for help a day came when the market was going
down too fast for me without Command Center to help me. I lost a few
thousand dollars; worst of all was losing the way that I had been able to make
money. After I could no longer trade profitably and my capital was no longer
supplemented by $800 a month from trading, my capital didn’t last long.

      Further, when PNM shut off my lights and heat it was on a day when I was
going to make trades that would have made about $50 to $76 profit. PNM came
unexpectedly, refused to give me two days to transfer money to pay them, and
shut me off, leaving me without heat, lights, phone. At the time my legs were
unexpectedly giving out which made walking to a phone hazardous, too
hazardous, I felt. That was April 4, 2007. By the time the Easter weekend was
over and I had found an old phone that didn’t use electricity I decided I couldn’t
risk trusting PNM again.

      My disability contributed to the PNM problem because I didn’t remember
the time and I had the wrong amount of money in the bank to pay PNM, so I
needed two days. Instead of granting two days PNM punished me for my
disability and I had to live in cold that caused me to shiver violently, in the dark
when without light I have severely reduced balance and I ended up with black
and blue marks from bumping into things and falling, and with no phone to call
for help for most of a week.

Now I have solar and heat with candles. The reduction in stress has helped

my nerves – tetanus, which I had, is a central nervous system disease. I’ve
regained some feeling and have less pain. I still don’t drive due to the way my
legs moved involuntarily for such a long time: I don’t want to have an accident
and hurt someone.

The reason it has taken me so long to do this is that something always

comes up to set me back. For instance, the City of Santa Fe would not grant me
two days, either, and they shut off my water and I had no water for a day. I
couldn’t take anything for pain without water, or even vitamins since without
water they can damage the liver. After that I had difficulty controlling my fingers
to type and talking was even more difficult. I’m still recovering and it’s been
months.

Because all of the above is true I hope the Court sees that I need

accommodation of my disability and that without it my disability will cause me to
fail to properly prosecute my action for violation of the automatic stay. (As I
understand it, this court being a federal court, is not bound by the ADA, Title II.
So I simply wish very strongly for the accommodation I need.)

I need more time as an accommodation and I need to be able to file

electronically. There is a new post office rule which says that anything 13
ounces or over must be taken to the post office to mail. My appeal brief was
returned to my mail box outside my door because it was over 13 ounces. Now,
mailing items with several pages costs me a minimum of $30 to hire someone to
go to the post office plus the cost of the stamps. Sometimes I do not have the
money for even the stamps. $30 would be a small amount of money but for the
violations of stay that took such a huge portion of what I had.

I understand that the rules may disallow electronically filing anything with

as many pages as my brief, but by being able to save along the way, when it
comes to the large filings I will have been able to save the money to hire
someone to take them and mail them at the post office for me.

I am sending in the form with my social security number with this motion,

but not attached.

After I had the money from the sale of my single family rental I went

through my list of creditors and paid them until the condo problem happened and
I was overwhelmed.

WHEREFORE, I pray the Court grant, so that I can prosecute willful
violation of automatic stay, accommodation of more time when it comes to
things that are governed by time: twice the time would be a great help; and say
that I can file electronically, and whatever other relief the Court deems to be
right and just. Money Order for $150 was enclosed with Chapter 13 motion.
Respectfully submitted,

Karen Kline

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Santa Fe, New Mexico 87507

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE: I caused a true copy of the above to be mailed
today, February 26, 2008, to:

Deutsche, Richard Leverick, 5120 San Francisco Road NE Albq., NM 87109
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Wells Fargo, Kelly J. McMullen, Shapiro & Meinhold   13725 Struthers Road,
Suite 201 Colorado Springs, CO 80921   xxxxxxxxxx

Wells Fargo, Sharon Hankla, Castle, Meinhold & Stawiarski 13725 Struthers
Road, Suite 201 Colorado Springs, CO 80921   xxxxxxxxxxxx