This fundraiser was created for me to cover the costs of an uninsured ER visit bill (almost $4751.36) in October last year.
The rest of the raised funds are going to cover the costs of an active wheelchair with push assist (together can cost $5000 and sometimes upwards, a wheelchair like that would allow me to be more independent) my regular medicine, doctor visits, blood and other tests, medical equipment, etc.
If you can't donate, please reblog this post
i wanted to keep the post brief, thats why i updated it, more information is shared under the GoFundMe
[Remaking because the last one got a bit long and lot complicated]
I'm a disabled enby and I take care of my elderly mother. We're Homeless and unexpected expenses[aka my financially abusive sister] wiped out a huge chunk of her SSI which is our only stable income at the moment.
This left us in an unsafe situation that I was able to get us out of but unfortunately it took another big chunk of money to get us safe. I've got us in a room at Motel 6 but I was only able to pay for one night.
If someone could send me just $80 I'd be able to pay for another night.
But every little bit adds up and if like four people sent me $20 or 8 sent $10.
We're both disabled and cannot be on the streets, she can barely walk from arthritis and has severe chronic bronchitis and I have asthma, arthritis and an autoimmune disorder.
I'm looking for work and waiting for back pay from babysitting my sisters kids but I have no income of my own right now. I really hate having to depend on charity but right now it's my only hope.
Please help if you can, and please reblog if you cant so maybe someone who can help will see this.
Even though shes monogamous, i think her neurodivergence makes her more understanding that the pre established rules of things are kinda arbitrary and limiting.
She’s the most supportive person I know when it comes to my relationships and dating life… my family is weird about it lol.
In a shorter, more concise note: if you struggle with being stuck in the poverty cycle, and your family can't help you, and you live in the United States, I want you to know two things:
There is help available from places that are not the DHHS, and you do not have to be at death's door to go to them. You can ask for help in an emergency (always ask for help in an emergency!!!) AND you have the right to ask for help before that. It can often prevent the emergency entirely.
Community Action Agencies: Non-profits that work on a local level to improve their communities and off-set the worst effects of poverty. They often run food banks or deliver groceries from them to those lacking transportation, they may run clothing closets or provide furnishings to families moving into new housing, run emergency relief funds for rent, utility payments, funeral costs, and other serious debts. They can assist with things like enrollment in job trainings, connection with legal representation, and assorted other programs that vary by agency.
Community Mental Health: Non-profits at the local level who are obligated to accept every patient that comes to them. Providers of extremely low cost mental healthcare and other support services, including case management (ie referrals to ongoing services like the other ones listed on this post) job training (sometimes sketchy as fuck, handle with caution) medication management, limited transportation, and housing support services.
Housing Commission: SPEAKING OF. Your city has one, or your county, or your township, or your parish, or your SOMETHING has a housing commission. They exist to place community members in stable, affordable housing. Priority is given to the unhoused, families, senior citizens, and the disabled (government definition). Through them, you can be placed on a wait list for section eight (government pays part of your rent in any housing of your choice provided said housing is able to accept section eight) or project choice voucher (government pays part of your rent at a specific location), or affordable senior or disabled housing.
Area Agency On Aging: non-profits who work in cooperation with governmental entities on a local level to provide support services to senior citizens and the disabled, and their families and caregivers. They can provide in-home services, respite care, socialization, transportation, and other forms of assistance that vary by local and funding. They often act as a referral service to other community support systems and can sometimes provide case management to assist with other benefit applications.
"I don't need it yet."
Fuck that. Yes, you do.
"I'm doing fine."
Wouldn't you rather be doing great?
"I'm too far gone."
Two of my first patients were returning citizens who had begun their prison sentences before I was born and been released very shortly before I met them (yes, two, completely unrelated. No, they were not my only returning citizens). I can not confirm or deny what the exact nature of their "offenses" were, but they were violent crimes and prison changes people. They adjusted very, very, very well. You are not too far gone.
"I'm taking it from someone who needs it more."
Nope. You are doing the opposite. Firstly: agencies like this do, in fact, get to triage. If they can only help, say, 400 people in one month, and that 400th spot is between you and someone who "needs it more", they will not choose the person who needs it less, I promise you. You cannot "steal" these things!
Secondly: Think about that joke that TV shows and movies make, about spending the entire budget so it doesn't get cut? Every time one of these programs can flounce into the office of whatever deep-pocketed mucky-muck they depend on and prove, on paper, that more people used the service in 2025 than did in 2024, they get to demand more money. They get to continue to exist.
You help your entire community every single time you ask for help.
