Most of the DK community knows me from my numerous diaries ranting on healthcare and chronic pain. I have used it as an outlet to help me keep my sanity as I fought my own battle with multiple health issues from chronic pain to a double cancer diagnosis. I have found friends and a TON of like minded people who are great. Lately I have been including a link to my GFM account at the end of my diaries to help me get my car repaired.
Unfortunately I need a lot to get the old beast fixed. At this point it is just under $2000.00. Until recently I had been able to do a lot of the upkeep and repairs myself. It hurt like heck to jack it up and slide under to change the oil and the brakes went from about 15 minutes a side to an all day project due to needing to rest between stages. Now even that is out as the pain has grown and my body’s bad habit of falling down at the least little reason, like oh there is a shadow let’s trip over it or feeding the woozles and face planting into the can of food I just put down for them. I tried to do a tune up and that took me 3 days. Just bending over the engine compartment was HELL.
Now my poor old beast needs a valve cover gasket replaced quickly. It is not just leaking oil, which is a pain but it is leaking it onto my poor new starter. The old one died because oil had leaked onto it and my local Ford dealer charged me $750 bucks to replace it ! UGH jeez that was a huge eye opener !
In the old days it would not have been a huge issue. Search online and find the guide on how to do and head over to Autozone or O’Reilly’s auto parts and pick up what I need. A couple of hours for figuring it all out and Bingo all done. Now even adding oil hurts a lot !. Putting air in my tires is just about impossible. Most of the time I need to rely on the kindness of strangers. Really hits you in the gut when you can’t do what you used to. Actually that really SUCKS ! Kind of makes you question your own manhood to tell the truth.
So the other day I was coming home from my latest BCG treatment when the dang car just died. No warning or anything. Finally got it restarted and found out I was very low on oil even though I had recently had an oil change. Apparently I can’t let the valve cover gasket go much longer. I had been hoping to get the ball joints done first but the car is telling me differently. To do this I need to come up with close to $700.00 bucks. If you could help I would really appreciate it. you can find me on PayPal or ZellePay at louisvillebuschs@gmail.com or you can hit up my GofundMe acct if you prefer. With PayPal you can send for free and I get all of it unlike with the GFM acct where they take a portion of the donation. Just choose send to friends or family on PayPal and it is 100% free.
I wouldn’t ask if there was any way around it but my current health issues have been eating up all my extra cash just to keep the docs happy. Thank you all !
PS. If you can’t donate that is fine maybe you could help by sharing on FB or other social media sites to get some new eyes on it. Any way you can help is greatly appreciated ! Be well my friends !