Joel’s Housing Support
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Hi Friends!
My friends and family, I really, really need your help!! If I don't raise $900 by this Friday I could lose my belongings and have the eviction process started against me! A first in almost 50 years! The few local resources available for rental assistance are unwilling to come to the hospital to interview me and complete an application for assistance.
I haven't been able to work since May due to having developed another ulcer that destroyed and infected tissue and bone! The ulcer was ”possibly” caused by an infection from my pressure ulcer year. The ulcer was virtually undetectable until much of what was beneath the surface eventually broke the skin, and by then a lot of damage had been done! Requiring three debridement surgeries before the final surgery to graph and closed the wound followed by weeks of healing and IV antibiotics. I've been told I will need daily antibiotics for a year or more to keep the current infection from doing the same thing in 6-months!
Some of you may be wondering what happens next week or next month to keep me from becoming homeless!? Truthfully, I've considered the same thing for weeks, I want to believe that there are additional resources for the disabled. I plan to build that network immediately. I also plan to move in April to a less expensive housing arrangement.
Being paralyzed from the armpits down obviously makes the physical aspects of living alone, maintaining my place, and working for Uber to keep the budget balanced, along with running errands like going to a doctors appointment and possibly grocery shopping and putting all that stuff away can wipe me out!
Over the past few years I have messed up a lot, and I've learned a lot. If I've messed up with our friendship, please share what it was I did. I need the feedback. I am finding that I haven't seen myself or others very well thru the depression, the pain, medications and fatigue from 4-5 hours of rest nightly. It's not the same as good sleep, healthy food, managing pain and some time for exercise and working on engaging with new people.
My friends and family, I really, really need your help!! If I don't raise $900 by this Friday I could lose my belongings and have the eviction process started against me! A first in almost 50 years! The few local resources available for rental assistance are unwilling to come to the hospital to interview me and complete an application for assistance.
I haven't been able to work since May due to having developed another ulcer that destroyed and infected tissue and bone! The ulcer was ”possibly” caused by an infection from my pressure ulcer year. The ulcer was virtually undetectable until much of what was beneath the surface eventually broke the skin, and by then a lot of damage had been done! Requiring three debridement surgeries before the final surgery to graph and closed the wound followed by weeks of healing and IV antibiotics. I've been told I will need daily antibiotics for a year or more to keep the current infection from doing the same thing in 6-months!
Some of you may be wondering what happens next week or next month to keep me from becoming homeless!? Truthfully, I've considered the same thing for weeks, I want to believe that there are additional resources for the disabled. I plan to build that network immediately. I also plan to move in April to a less expensive housing arrangement.
Being paralyzed from the armpits down obviously makes the physical aspects of living alone, maintaining my place, and working for Uber to keep the budget balanced, along with running errands like going to a doctors appointment and possibly grocery shopping and putting all that stuff away can wipe me out!
Over the past few years I have messed up a lot, and I've learned a lot. If I've messed up with our friendship, please share what it was I did. I need the feedback. I am finding that I haven't seen myself or others very well thru the depression, the pain, medications and fatigue from 4-5 hours of rest nightly. It's not the same as good sleep, healthy food, managing pain and some time for exercise and working on engaging with new people.
Organizer
Joel Thornton
Organizer
Bradenton, FL