help your favourite cripple avoid homelessness

Hi, I’m Fig (alias), and I hate that I’m writing this.

(this is me the last time i went away on an actual trip away where it wasn't forced and i didn't want to die the entire time) (2 years ago)

I’ll try not to waffle on as usual (even if every fibre of my soul is screaming to write a novel to possibly justify asking for money in what is one of the worst possible times to ask that of others) but basically - I am facing imminent homelessness due to disability, and I need to afford avoiding that becoming a permanent situation. Even if I find a place in the next few days before I’m completely fucked - touch wood because temporary storage and accommodation and double the labour costs just isn’t possible - I still can’t afford moving costs either way. Ten times my Jobseeker at least.

A bit of background: They are selling the house that I love (ironically due to the landlord’s own medical bills and rising interest rates) and have spent years turning into a home, at least until recent years have completely disabled me, meaning it is also full of furniture that I can’t physically move anymore like I could when I moved in. However, I was genuinely paralysed from PEM after that when I was still healthy enough to work and study and go out etc, prior to being completely disabled by a Bad Covid infection in 2021/2. Then it took me a year to recover from just moving bedrooms. I was starting to improve before reinfection in December, since which my fatigue and POTS have been unmanageable, barely allowing me to stand long periods. I also have a massive amount of other illnesses that have severely degraded in recent years (a friend told me to drop my spine x-ray for sympathy LOL so there you go below). Which means I need to pay professional movers to move an entire house-worth of furniture - or in case of temporary accom, movers x2 plus storage - plus trips to the tip. Which are all stupidly expensive.

I also have no family in the state (and a very small support network since I became too ill to participate in society), as well as a diabetic cat who requires full-time care and a large reactive dog, meaning my options for living anywhere temporarily or my pets staying with anyone else are little to none. Throughout my life I have worked a ridiculous amount (perhaps to my own demise), but now my lack of an income due to total disability also means that my viable rental options are also little to none. I am completely exhausting myself and damaging my health trying to find a rental that will accept me, which might not exist because I simply don’t have the income. I’m at a total loss without the resources I need.

Anyone who knows me would know how aggrieved I am to lose my autonomy and independence, and how much I have hustled before and wish I could hustle now to work everything out, because I am the person who always works everything out. I just can’t this time, and I can’t control it, and I need help. As much bile just rose in my throat typing that. I do, and desperately.

Simply put - I find myself physically and financially incapable of this urgent move, facing homelessness as a result, and in desperate need of help to afford this transition. I am extremely embarrassed to be asking for money during a literal recession and gen0cide, and I beg you to please not donate any money you need for yourself or more worthy causes. I am so serious about this - I can’t bear to know I’m taking someone who is struggling beside me, or taking away from someone struggling more so. Having rich parents would be less humiliating at this point lol.

For clarity I am raising money to go toward (and nowhere near cover):

I am genuinely terrified of the aftermath of this move, or whatever fucked chaos will become of my life if I fail to find a place and need to work out something in the interim, because I spend 99% of my time bedridden dealing with unmanageable symptoms. I was planning to do a fundraiser stream, to spend my last weeks in my beautiful house making content to sell, try to do SOMETHING to earn the money myself, but I have been all but horizontal almost all of the time and crashing too hard after futile inspections to do much more at all. I'm hoping new meds are helping, but I still have nowhere to go. I need to be already moving in somewhere by Friday 8 March. Can’t be housebound without a house!!!

The above is just my current most relevant context. At the same time all of the moving shit is happening, I am also struggling to afford medical bills for me and my pets - but only once moving costs are covered, the rest of the money will go towards those. I have hundreds of dollars in outstanding vet fees with up to $700 in further testing needed if/when I can afford it, plus at least $600 in my own outstanding medical expenses. There are countless costs just to keep just me alive - so every single donation is sincerely welcome, as it is the food in our mouths. Any extra money will go toward the rest of the cost of the move (so much) and medical necessities (so much) and maybe even groceries (if I'm lucky!!!!).

Thank you for taking the time to read this if you did. I waffled on, sorry I lied. I didn’t lie in the other parts though. I’m really struggling and I just don’t have the resources I need because I can barely get out of bed most days, so I find myself in my early twenties already unable to support myself anymore. Now they’re kicking me out of my beautiful home and my heart is broken but more importantly I need to afford to live somewhere. Bit of a nightmare if I’m honest, thank you for supporting me if you can. Love you