some of you may know me, mostly from my cleverman shitposting, but a lot of you probably don’t, so here’s a brief breakdown!
my name is cat, or kitty, i’m almost 23, i am a black trans person and I live in melbourne, australia. lots of you might remember my 2014 (was it really that long ago wow) fundraiser to get myself a power chair, which I have and I love! in the time between then and now, my quality of life has been vastly improved, even with my somewhat grim diagnosis.
however
A power chair is just not what I need most of the time. For going from here to Geelong, it’s great. For hospital and school, however, it’s really difficult, frustrating and anxiety-inducing, and in the past 2 months, I have wound up stranded with a dead battery over a dozen times — most of them in the last fortnight. I also really need to build up muscle in my shoulders to stablise the joints as best I can, so my doctor has recommended I do this.
Anyone who’s ever looked into this knows that this isn’t cheap. Given the requirements I have (listed on the fundraiser), I need a customised chair, which the NDIS does not provide to adults most of the time.
10k includes the cost of my chair (between 5k and 8k, I was quoted) as well as necessary accessories (my current bag system won’t work for a manual chair). My power chair also desperately needs maintenance and new batteries, which can cost upwards of 1k.
other stuff !!
- my other fundraiser for medication and living expenses
- my paypal.me (sorry it says i live in corrimal, i havent been able to change my paypal home address)
I can also give my paypal email address on request, but I just don’t like giving it out publicly. If you send it via paypal.me, please tell me if it’s for medication/rent or wheelchair fundraiser.
If you can’t donate, please share. I really need this.