As my life continues to unravel through the mess that is the current state of the US here is what the past year or so has been like for me. At the end of 2019 my Mother who I moved in with so we could help each other with bills had a stroke making her unable to work. Around the same time my medical problems became so bad that we both applied for disability at the same time. My mother is currently living with her sister as I was unable to care for her but neither of us have yet to have our disabilities be finalized after almost 18 months.
Then covid hit and the minor bit of freelance work I was still able to do with my medical problems dried up. But there was still my partner and our roommate, an old friend of mine from high school and college, able to help cover bills and rent. Then my roommate left us high and dry with almost no warning and not long after we learned he had lied to us about why he was in prison and he was on the SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY. This was a shocking blow to us because another roommate of ours who had moved out the year before, as well as my partner and myself, were all survivors of sexual assault and he hadn’t informed any of us of this.
For a little more information on me and my partner who are the only ones currently living in the trailer, we are both disabled. She is 29 and I am 35. We also have a disabled cat with special needs living with us who I’ve raised since he was about 3 weeks old.
We were still doing fine until June of last year when my mother, now having the impulse control of a child due to the stroke, closed our joint bank account after there was a hacking problem at the bank. Unfortunately she did that while all my money was in the account and it took until August for the check with all my money that she and my aunt sent back to me… well for half of it, the other half didn’t arrive until september.
This caused the mobile home park I live in to stack on late fees to the rent as we were unable to pay from july through september as they have this bull rule that you have to pay it all at once and can’t do smaller payments. Remember this for later.
Thanks to everyone on here we were able to cover the rent and bills that had built with late fees since then and it seemed like we would do fine.
Then the series of unfortunate events started.
At the beginning of November I damaged the Plantar Fascia in my left foot and had to pay for medical things that drained some of our money so we weren’t able to cover our rent that month. Then someone tried to steal our water heater breaking it in the process. Then our oven broke. Then our food stamps got cancelled for no reason. Then as I was recovering from the damage in my left foot, I injured my right foot. Then I got covid when I went to do some grocery shopping using money that should be for rent and bills for that since we still haven’t been able to get the food stamps reinstated. THEN OUR GAS HEATER BROKE! Then we had a massive windstorm unlike anything we’ve seen here before that destroyed our shed and damaged a lot of stuff we had in there. During which my back was injured due to the doors coming loose while I was trying to get stuff out and had them slam into my back with the force of 70+ mph winds. Those winds also ripped the door of our recently fixed water heater alcove and I don’t know if the repairs we had done held up during it. Granted that last part doesn’t really matter as while our water heater was fixed, don’t know if it still is, we haven’t been able to get the gas company down here to turn it back on. Also as of two days ago my current bank account overdrew because of me being unable to stop an automatic utility payment for $200 when I had $105 in the account.
We have been without hot water since November and without heat since the beginning of January. And because of all the stuff we keep having to deal with we haven’t been able to pay the rent since November and because of that you can’t pay a little at a time and compounding late fees, even if we got the survival checks we would not be able to pay everything off.
We are back to where we were at the end of September when I asked for help back then but even worse because it now hurts for me to move due to my back.
We now need about $3500 for rent & repairs before March because we can’t pay rent unless we pay it all, it has been rather cold where we live ranging from 40-60 on average, and the late fees keep compounding because they won’t let us just pay the rent alone unless we pay the late fees as well. Yeah… the all at once thing means you have to pay the late fees as well or they won’t accept the rent payment. And at least $200 to fix the overdraw at the bank before that rockets up. And money for food because we are running low again and actually have negative money at the moment and can’t get our ride down here so we can fix the the food stamp issue. We are supposed to have access to this disability ride thing and we have not heard from them since December.
ALSO WHILE I WILL BE POSTING IT MY GOFUNDME IS CURRENTLY NOt LETTING ME WITHDRAW BECAUSE MY ID IS OUT OF DATE AND HAVEN’T BEEN ABLE TO FIX THAT DUE TO COVID.
I am actually starting to reach wits end and don’t know what to do. I desperately need help. I don’t know why my disability hasn’t started up yet even though the adjudicator told me it would be through by the end of January… its almost the end of February. The relief checks I have no idea when they will arrive, we are in the hole when it comes to money and rent and I’m about to have a mental breakdown while my body has already broken down.
Even if you are unable to help financially, helping get the word out about our situation would be wonderful. Just we need help.
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and my Gofundme can be found here