Things Are Slowly Getting Better But Help Is Still Something We Need!
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Updated May 22nd 2026 | Previous Post
So just in case you don't want to scroll through the previous post: we have a car and our landlord fixed both of refrigerator and our freezer, but unfortunately we're still kind of short of food, we managed to get one of the car repairs done and another seems to have sorted itself out, but we have a pressing need to get $3000 in more immediate repairs done and get one of our side doors fixed at around $750, and I had a potential breast cancer scare/my daughter has had issues getting her root canal scheduled and the other dentists won't do their work without that being done.
So first off, the potential breast cancer situation: whatever it was with the first mammogram that concerned the imaging specialist is benign according to the second mammogram! I need to have a mammogram every year now, but yes. Very good news! So please take this as a friendly reminder to check your breasts monthly for lumps and get your mammograms whenever your doctor says you need them (and the self-exams should be done by everyone regardless of sex, because breast cancer affects men and women). Also good health news: my daughter finally saw her GP after nearly a year and she's got her HRT sorted out a bit more plus she's on a new arthritis medication (same one I'm on) and we're hoping the med changes will help her be in less pain, root canal withstanding.
Also mostly good news: our car is running well enough, but we would like to get the two repairs that are $1500 each done as soon as we can, just because (IIRC) one issue is the timing belt and the other is the struts, and repairs are vastly less expensive than replacements. We can manage without getting the side door fixed for now, but anything we can put towards those two repairs and gas would be a huge help.
And last update: I talked to someone from Legal Aid Tuesday about the habitability issues (if our fridge goes out again and they refuse to fix/replace it I now know what legal recourse I have, and I may be able to get them to replace it after we get our recertification they send last week sorted because my mother is insulin dependent and her disability accommodation includes having a working fridge). They're going to have a separate attorney call about our recertification paperwork, but I am pretty sure they are no longer trying to kick us out, though it does look like we're on a month-to-month lease at the moment.
I am currently $300 overdrawn and have a $300 loan due on the 3rd of June, though I'm going to try and see if I can get the loan payment broken down into payments (this was because of food issues since we had to throw away most of our food in the fridge before it got fixed/laptop repair costs). I would like to cover some of the overdraft if possible.
I also have a lot of smaller bills and such that I wasn't able to pay because of the overdraft (though a friend helped with my phone bill already). This includes my electric bill, of which I owe $124 currently (I can carry some of my bill over but at some point soon I need to make a big payment)
We still do not have a ton of perishable food since most of our food stamps had gone to restocking the non-perishable food we had to use up when the fridge wasn't working. We kind of need milk soon, but a huge help would be food from our Amazon wish list of just snacks and stuff we can eat in between meals as well as the boxed meal kits I can make by adding ground beef.
I still do not have possession of my laptop, which I was quoted would have been finished almost a week ago. So I'm kind of stuck not being able to do huge updates or update often because I have both psoriatic arthritis and carpal tunnel and it's been getting harder and harder using my phone or my laptop while I am in bed (fortunately we found a small side table a neighbor was discarding that I can use for my laptop once it's repaired so I can sit up and use a wrist rest and all that).
So yeah. If anyone can help immediately with the overdraft and the smaller bills (I think grand total $600 would cover everything) now and I can work towards the repairs as well as clearing out my remaining storage unit, that would take such a weight off my shoulders.
