Dallas woman who wouldn’t give up rescues 87-year-old and her dog trapped in squalid home | SharonFGrigsby
It’s unconscionable that anyone would be left in circumstances as awful as those inside this Lakewood area house.
This is the story of a proud, strong and independent woman. Raised in Oak Cliff, Poldi spent years working in New York City and taking solo vacations to Europe before returning here to care for her mother. She bought her own home in 1987 and for decades rode the bus to and from her IRS job in downtown Dallas.
Her lifeline was the delivery service from nearby Piggie Pies Pizza, its cardboard boxes part of the strewn garbage that made walking through the house increasingly difficult. After eventually losing her cellphone and credit card in the growing mounds of rot — her checkbook and I.D. misplaced long before that — Poldi and Lexi went hungry.
Although the Catholic charity couldn’t possibly shell out that kind of money, Kelvisha had stumbled onto just the person Poldi needed. Maria Stanley, who led the effort to get Poldi Tonin out of a dangerous living situation in East Dallas, with Tonin's dog, Lexi, after her vet visit July 26. Poldi finally said yes but was furious that Maria and Lexi were gone longer than promised. She lashed out with threats of “I can’t trust you and I’m gonna let you have it.”
“I teared up a little bit,” she told me. “I’ve got feelings. When you’re single and alone like I’ve been, you learn to hide it.” Earlier that morning, I had visited Poldi’s Lakewood Heights home. It’s unconscionable to leave a human being in the conditions I saw through the windows and in the photos Maria sent me.
Poldi told me the only person she trusted prior to Maria is Chris Williams, a Dallas Fire-Rescue paramedic. While she barred the door to many others, she let him check her vital signs and stay for a short visit.Williams is a member of the department’s mobile outreach team and his visits — at least 15 since February — are in addition to the Fire-Rescue service calls.
Just a few days of living outside of that noxious house has made a world of difference in Poldi. She’s sharp, intelligent and tells wonderful stories about her life in “old Dallas” and her family genealogy, all of them punctuated by loud laughter.
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