Help Jo keep fighting and get her car back

In August of 2022, I began what has become an in-and-out-of-the hospital lifestyle. I was passing out almost daily, chronic fatigue, having chest pains, experiencing personality changes, and quickly lost my ability to walk. Because of past bad hospital experiences and my PTSD, this was awful. In late August, I was in a wheelchair and diagnosed with autoimmune encephalitis. Despite getting the appropriate treatment for the AE, I was still having chest pain, chronic fatigue, and couldn’t walk.

In October, I found out it was because of a BIG cardiac tumor. Cancer. It’s been 9 months and it’s still hard for me to say “I have cancer.” But it’s true. Stage 4 primary cardiac angiosarcoma. Look it up if you want to get confused and scare your pants off about me dying. In October, I had a long, extensive open heart surgery called an autotransplant in effort to scrape out all of the cardiac tumor and avoid having to be put on the transplant list.

It’s been 9 months. I’ve failed two rounds of chemo and yet I’m still here. But I’ve been trying to do this nearly on my own. I don’t like asking for help (does anyone?) and I don’t want to admit that I can’t do it by myself. Things got so bad with my mental health, specifically my PTSD and my knowledge that the student loans I had been living off of were about to end in April…it was so bad that I tried to kill myself in March and just spent the last few months in California in a residential mental health treatment program.

Even though I have finally found a treatment that seems to be working, I can’t work because I need at least two naps a day and have at least one doctor's appointment every day. So now I’m facing eviction on the 28th unless I can magically find $6500 of past due rent and fees. And even though it’s unsafe for my health, I’m stuck relying on public transit right now because I can’t afford my car payments or car insurance. I’ve applied for disability but it takes monthssss for that to come through and, even if/when it does, it’s only $2000 a month and my rent is $1500. I'm behind on car payments and about to have to renew my insurance (it's a 3x a year premium rather than monthly) and I don't have the money and I'm terrified.

I tried to do it alone and I’m now realizing that if I don’t get some help, I’m going to end up homeless and probably dead. Please help. Every little bit matters.