New Orleans Saints

The New Orleans Saints came from behind to win the Super Bowl of football. Millions of people, all over the world, watched this team, from a city that was beaten down by a hurricane and bureaucracy, win the Super Bowl for the first time in its history.

Very few persons know that the daughter of one of the founders, now deceased, of the local National Alliance for Mental Illness. NAMI, is about to be released from the county hospital seriously ill. Due to bureaucracy and lack of care there is not much anyone can do about it.

In this country a rich football player is held up as a national hero and a poor person suffering from a serious illness is lost and forgotten.

Like many others I was glued to the T.V. screen rooting for the underdog New Orleans Saints football team. It was only after the game that I got a call from a friend, who also suffers from a mental illness, that her friend was being released from the hospital seriously sick.

I still enjoyed the Saints victory but felt sad that other saints, like my friend, feel so hopeless to help a friend in need.

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