Help Pam & Gwen during our darkest year

So much, frankly too much has been going badly, and downright scary this year and since Covid hit while my hip failed me at the same time. My daughter, Gwen, has tried to help but finding & keeping a job for Asperger's folks isn't that easy.

Many of you know that my hip needed replacing for several years but my approval for Medicaid came thru just in time for Covid beds being needed that slammed the hospital doors shut for non emergency, elective surgery. With the backlog of necessary surgeries resuming after covid calmed, I was FINALLY able to get my hip replaced at the end of last year. The delay and inability to work at my former job at Walmart caused LOTS of money issues. We have never recovered since.

Then on the very day I got the ortho doc's approval to drive again, since my surgery was for the right hip, our only car, an old Chevy Sonic, was totaled downtown by a new 16 yr old driver who made a bad choice of T-boning us at an intersection. We were not at fault, no injuries by any person but dang it that accident screwed up our lives in many directions. That was Feb 14th, the darkest Valentine's Day ever.

Then to add another gut punch, we were both laid off from our Walmart jobs (as contract workers thru PeopleReady). I had only been back a few weeks in March when that hit us both hard as a dropkick to the heart. Walmart never renewed the contract with PR. The jobs we held for years were gone.

We are back to using the bus for groceries (on SNAP btw) and for me, I was renting a Hertz car so I could drive and finally earn again. I do not recommend doing THAT as the pay was good but Hertz taking $311+ per week for car rental, plus the gas of $175+ weekly left me with barely $200 week to survive upon. Gwen was also gig delivering out of the same car I was Ubering in but it just wasn't making enough to pay all bills on time.

By May the eviction papers were filed against me as I could only make partial rent payments but not the full amount because other bills like electricity, gas and water were going up in cost.

Then comes June, the scariest month. I had been having issues with staying awake after meals thinking it was a sugar diabetes issue starting and figured it was just worsened by the insurmountable stress we have been suffering with.

Nope.

I had almost no oxygen getting to my brain and other organs due to anemia, almost no blood left in me and several internal bleeds due to polyp and bleeding ulcers, both treated successfully but my hospital stay almost killed me while it healed me at the same time.

Seems the doc took me off my clot medication, Eliquis, but didn't resume it during hospital stay, I spent almost 5 DAYS without food, water (nothing by mouth) dehydrated AF BUT NO SALINE IV DRIP at any point despite me requesting one, to replenish that which I bled out inside myself, plus all the vials of blood they took out of me every few hours during my entire hospital stay.

From Saturday to Thursday I had NO LIQUIDS at all going in me but 1 bag of blood and countless bags of iron that both burned and blew out my arm veins with every dose. I also developed a DVT & other clots in my left arm, which became unusable, becuz the hospital docs never allowed resuming MY CLOT PREVENTING MEDICINE! I have a multiple clot history with a genetic component that gives me clots a lot. I had ZERO idea that they withheld the clot meds until the ER doc who diagnosed the DVTs told me of my recent hospital stay. All of my medications looked different in the hospital so I assumed one of them was Elquis.

Nope.

The ER doc, who is a heart specialist, saw that my left arm failed to function, with intense heat and a clot lump as big as a hotdog near my elbow, said that "the other doc made very bad choices regarding my history & hospital care."

I almost DIED TWICE!

Ugh.

We have until the end of July to vacate the apartment we have lived in for over 8 years and are moving into the homeless hotel on the north side of Pittsburgh, for a little less than we've paid monthly for this apartment these past 8 years.

I just want to run away then find a tall bridge to fly off of some days. My mental state is crumbling fast as is Gwen's. We have never been this desperate, depressed and destitute in our lives.

So this is WHY I am doing this GoFundMe, for the downstroke on a new used car, to share with gig-driving Gwen, and to eventually take me to work, once this 61 year old mom gets hired somewhere. Am still wanting to work out of the home (hotel for now) since only one driver can gig work at a time with 1 car. My laptop is over 14 yrs old and dying a slow death, and I cannot afford a new one to do any call center type of job with my aging out laptop.

Driving and computer work is all that my hands & failing spine will allow me to do at 62. I have degenerative disc disease with arthritis everywhere but my hair it seems.

Thanks for the ears & shoulders and any donations you can offer to help us get our lives back on track, my dear ((((friends & family)))). We plan to pay your generosity forward when we are finally back on track to a better life away from poverty & homelessness.

Greatly appreciate you reading our story thus far and helping us out of this dark hole life threw at us.

Deeply grateful for your help,

Pamela & Gwen