So I was trying to avoid making another one of these, but frankly, I’m on the teetering edge of desperate.
As some of you may or may not know, two weeks ago I tried to kill myself. Obviously I didn’t succeed due to the intervention of several friends who literally saved my life. I was then hospitalized for about two weeks. Prior to the suicide attempt, I spent several months homeless, saving up as best I could for an apartment. I was able to secure a place, but after my hospitalization, I was left with no funds to pay for basic necessities, as all of my money I had saved went immediately towards rent and utilities.
Now, I’m trying to get my life back together, but things are messy as hell. I’m still under suicide watch and will be until a little after New Year’s. I’m up to my neck in debt, and I have three dollars and eighty cents to my name. Right now I’m with friends who will keep me safe, but when I go back to Kalamazoo in January I’m going to hit a crushing wall of expenses that I have no idea how I’m going to handle. I’ll be going back to work in January, but it’s minimum wage and it won’t be enough to make up for the situation I’m currently in. I’m not great at asking for help because I always feel like a leech, but I’m honestly at a loss for what else I’m going to do. I’m terrified I’m going to end up back on the street. If you have anything you can spare, even just a reblog, I would be beyond grateful.
My expenses, not counting medical bills, are:
-Rent ($550)
-Utilities ($75)
-Prescription Medication ($40)
-Food ($???)
If you can afford to help a desperate girl out this Holiday season, I would be eternally grateful. Even just a reblog could help save my life from crumbling back down to nothing.
If donations stop & my care terminates, I WOULD LITERALLY STARVE & DEHYDRATE without carers to bring food & water to my bed.
Without regular cleaning by carers, my lease could be terminated. Finding accessible housing is almost impossible & I CANNOT SURVIVE HOMELESSNESS BEDBOUND
I’M SEEKING RECURRING DONATIONS (monthly/weekly/etc) to guarantee life-sustaining disability care + ensure that I’d no longer have to live in CONSTANT FEAR FOR MY LIFE
One-off donations are still accepted and would help me a lot!
A target of $6998/month in recurring donations must be gradually met (disability costs outline), but even $1/month donations would accumulate and ultimately save my life
so, i really wish it hadn’t come to this, but here goes: this year has been a complete nightmare to me. i’ve been managing to pay my bills by way of a temporary job, but i’ve been let out last month, as expected, and i haven’t been able to find anything else. i live in brazil, and with the state things are here right now, + the fact that the year is almost over… i don’t think i can find anything else for now, try as i might. god, i had hoped this job could have turned into a permanent one, so i could use it to finally pay for college, but no such luck…
so i really hate to do this, but i’m in a terrible place right now. i have electricity and water bills i need to settle, but that leaves hardly anything left for food. my family helps me out as they can, but my mother is the only one working right now and she earns very little. i am the one who should be helping them out, really.
so, i’m asking for donations on my paypal account. any amount you can give will definitely help me, so please, please do, if you can!
the link to donate is this one. i had originally wanted to set it up on paypal.me, but i found out that this service isn’t available in my country, for some goddamn reason, so i had to do it the old fashioned way (except i never used paypal before and i don’t have much clue of what i’m doing right now, so if that’s not working for some reason, please let me know!)
again, i’m sorry for the inconvenience, but i really need any help i can get right now!
I’m an autistic trans lesbian and I’m in major financial trouble because my new boss has slashed everyone’s hours. I was already having trouble getting by, and now my whole team’s cut down to 20-25 hours, which is not enough for me (or any of us) to live on.
My next paycheck will be completely wiped out by rent, my medical insurance, and my phone bill, all of which hit at the same time and total just shy of $700.
Since I just paid my other bills, this means I only have $100 to make it from today, Nov 19th, to Dec 8th!
I just got groceries, but my commute to work is 30 miles each way (60 miles total), plus I have medications to buy.
There’s no way I can make $100 stretch for 19 days! I have no family or support system to fall back on, and I’ve already sold everything of value I can realistically sell (I’m not allowed to donate blood).
If I can just get maybe another $200 or so it would really save my ass. If I can’t afford gas I’ll end up missing work, which will just make my next check even smaller and I’ll be in an even worse position next month.
Please, please help! I am genuinely begging. I know I’ve had donation posts circulating off and on for the past couple of months, but in that time I’ve barely gotten $50 in donations.
If you can afford to make even a small donation (seriously, an extra $5 can be a life-saver), please, please follow this link to My Paypal.
I am so incredibly scared right now and I don’t know what I’m going to do.
So, I really don’t want to still be doing this, because it is humiliating. But I am still extremely poor and living well below the poverty line.
For those of you that don’t know, I was the victim of a hit and run by a drunk driver four and a half years ago, and he left me for dead. It was five hours before I was found. I damaged my vocal chords screaming for help.
Since then, I have had eleven surgeries on my leg, and four on my arm. He hit my right side and both limbs were severed within a centimetre (half an inch.) I have kept both limbs, but am currently trying to convince my orthopedic surgeon to amputate my leg because I am 29 and I have osteoporosis and complex regional pain syndrome.
Among other things, I have a neurogenic bladder (so My bladder leaks and I piss myself constantly,) brain damage that has basically laid waste to my ability to attend university, control my hands, or remember anything or look after myself. I have nerve damage that plagued me daily and I cannot lie down without burning pain in my feet and the feeling of electric eels in my lower back.
My jaw has been misaligned and my dentist is saying I need a full facial reconstruction (where they drill down every single one of my teeth and replace them with crowns) because of all the micro fractures from the impact.
I have PTSD and major depressive disorder and BPD and I am autistic.
Hashtag long post, but my entire world is falling apart and so is my body. And I keep having to travel to the mainland from the island I live on for appointments set by the drunk dirtbag who hit me that his lawyers set up. Regardless that (as any disabled person will tell you) travel is fucking exhausting and takes a toll on my health.
Anyway, I am so sorry to keep begging and this blog is meant for social issues but I am just so fucked I need to beg.
My paypal is here, please pleas donate if you can, please please boost if you can.
I know I’m not on here much anymore, but I’m asking you all to take a second to reblog this, and also to put it in your queue a couple times, and if you have anything to spare, please donate to her fundraiser! Her situation right now isn’t looking good at all, and honestly I’m really worried, so please help her! Thank you!!
Updated Oct 30. As you know, I have been unable to leave bed for years, due to complex regional pain syndrome. Despite 30+ pages of GP & OT reporting confirming disability, a widely criticised government agency [1] [2] [3] withdrew all my care. They know I’m reliant on paid carers to bring food and water to my bed, without which I risk lethal starvation or dehydration.
If I’m not hospitalised NOW, the consequent lapse in gov. support would require $10,000s in extra donations
Neurological assessments in hospital may be the ONLY way to force the gov. to reinstate my services. Unable to leave bed except on a stretcher, $758 UPFRONT payment for paramedics must be made. $468+ is also needed for private disability care, or I’ll be left isolated in hospital, where I REPEATEDLY faced abuse
i tried to register but i can’t because of my chronic pain.. please share this so we can hopefully find someone for shaunise and any other people that need our help
We have over 350 amazing and generous human beings who have signed up to auction off fan fiction, fan art, physical crafts, writing services, fanvids, mixes, podfic, and other awesome gifts to benefit Puerto Rico’s recovery. You can see a list of fandom creators here, as well as professional comics creators who generously donated their work.
The auction will be live from 9am EST, Tuesday 10/17, and bidding will be open on all items until 6pm EST, 10/23. At that time, the auction posts will be screened to private to bring bidding to a close. Afterwards, the winning bidders will start to receive a reply to their posts informing them that their bid has won, and further instructions. You can find further detail on the auction timing here, and detail about the event itself at our master post.
A Buy it Now! flash event will run from 9am EST 10/18 until 6pm EST, 10/19, or until we run out of items. (Link is currently screened and will go live at the above time).
