š¼š½ pls help two disabled working class queers š¼š½
iām Lonnie (23, they/he). i am a Black, trans, disabled and chronically ill queer person and i need a little help.
my only support is my partner, Liana (21, they/she) who is also trans, multiply disabled, and chronically ill (epilepsy, endometriosis, and hEDS).
weāve both been scraping by for a while but their accommodation request was denied by their employer and things are looking a bit bleak.
iāve been really sick and unable to do much more than shower or try to cook and clean for about 6 months after being illegally and maliciously fired from a job once disclosing that i was beginning the process of seeking a diagnosis for my autoimmune disease.
iāve been dealing with daily nerve and joint pain, decline in mental health, difficulty eating and sleeping, and extreme fatigue. some days i can barely walk to the bathroom unassisted and making a trip to the kitchen to feed myself leaves me shaking and dizzy. every time i seem to make some progress something flares or dislocates and iām back at square one.
while iām finally getting some support in managing my chronic illness and am very close to an official diagnosis (ankylosing spondylitis, you can look up the symptoms if youād like to understand more), all the things that i have experience doing for work are no longer things that i am able to safely do.
iāve been pursuing working for myself from home for a few years but needed support medically in order to continue to pursue that. i havenāt been able to access that support until very recently due to socioeconomic and environmental biases and factors. iāve been experiencing increasingly worse symptoms for roughly 13 years and have exclusively worked jobs that exacerbate my condition since the age of 14 and am only now getting treatment, so you can imagine why my condition is so debilitating at present.
i am also very close to booking a date for a gender affirming surgery that is and has been deemed by my doctor a medical necessity. this is great news but it is also costly and recovery will likely be a little longer and a bit more difficult for me.
it also means that itās not likely i will get any traditional/consistent work that is able and willing to both accommodate my level of fatigue and the unpredictability of my illness AND needing time off to recover so soon after signing on.
i have a student loan payment coming up that i wonāt be able to cover myself. our finances are already very strained and our rent was just increased as well. we were also denied by cal fresh because of our insurance (which we canāt give up because we both will not survive without a lot of medical support that we can not pay for ourselves).
if youāre in a position to help us with even a few dollars i would greatly appreciate it. iām not comfortable sharing more detailed information here but if you dm me in good faith i can share some proof of what weāre going through right now.
my goal is $200 for my student loan payment + $100 to supplement our groceries this week + $150 to supplement rent + $100 in utilities (including internet access which is essential for our telehealth appts, therapy access, wfh potential) + $30 to cover my meds and liquid IV which allows both of us to better manage being more active around the house without passing out.
being alive and sick is really expensive unfortunately but this should hold us over a bit longer. we are both very affected by our symptoms everyday and have been taking care of each other and isolated during the entire duration of the pandemic thus far. we donāt have any more resources to exhaust.
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