I am housed, for now - but I need help to stay. After losing my camp last month, I have nowhere else to go, and will DIE on the streets without a safe place to lie down, cook meals, or store my medications. And unfortunately, I am still not able to hold a 'real' daily 8-5 job so my needs for food, hygiene, and medication have not gone away.

This is why I chose to stay in the camp as long as I was able to do so - I know its a lot to ask for rent on top of everything else. But, when I was given 3 hours to vacate the place I've called home for the last 5+ years, it forced my hand.

I have a room in a house in the neighborhood I grew up in. The going rate today for a room here is $700-$800 but my friend is only asking $500 to help towards the household costs of utilities and property taxes. Its a helluva steal, the room is larger than my cabin was and has its own entrance door to boot. ♥️

But its unfurnished, and I left 3/4 of my belongings behind. I need to get some basics like storage containers to put my clothes in (currently in trash bags), and maybe eventually a piece of plywood and some bricks or something to get my mattress up off the floor. I don't need much but what I need is still too much...

My meds (prescription plus supplements) now that Trump took away my ACA insurance, is over $4k/month. I am fortunate that an organization is going to pay part of those costs but I still need to come up with $600 per month. Yes, my meds cost more than my rent

I can make it as far as food for $50/week, that is $200/month. And I may be able to get that a bit lower because food banks are now finally an option again. But I also need to help pay for gas because I can't walk everywhere from here like I used to, and my phone bill is still critical, and laundry still needs to be done.

I hate this so much. I tried for so long to ask for as little as possible and never quite met my goals even then. So now that everything is harder everywhere and I need even more, I don't even know how I am going to survive. All I can do is ask, and hope that someone who is able can be an angel.

To recap for those new to my story, I was disabled by SARS-CoV-2 early in the pandemic and now live with immune deficiency, dysautonomia, neuropathy, cognitive dysfunction, vision and hearing changes, and a multitude of daily symptoms that interfere with my ability to carry out normal tasks as a result. I spent 5+ years unhoused, living in a makeshift camp trying to deal with all this without any gov't assistance.

More than six years after the infection that destroyed my life, there is still no diagnostic test for long covid (which hampers any attempt to obtain financial assistance from the government), and there is still no approved treatment for my condition (meaning more out of pocket cost for off label meds).

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