the last two weeks
I'm going to make this short hopefully, yet still coherent, and I am leaving a few details out that venture way into TMI territory. This will also explain why I never updated my website on Oct 1 like I said I would.
On September 29th I was sent to the emergency room in an ambulance when my face went into spasms at work. I had been having severe jaw pain for two days but couldn't find a dentist who could see me and take my stupid lousy insurance. I was given a perscription to calm my jaw and released. However, the next day while still chasing all over town trying to find a dentist, one finally called another ambulance because the whole right side of my face was sagging and it looked like I was having a stroke. So on Sept 30 I was admitted to the hospital. I'm not prepared to go into the whole story but I spent a week in there, it wasn't a stroke, I was treated very aggressively, and the pain and facial spasms are gone. It is much better, but I lost a week of work and we have no sick pay. Thanks to my friends who came to see my cats had food and clean litter and some love time. I was released last Thursday and was supposed to go back to work on Sunday, which is the first day of my work week.
Saturday I started swelling up like a balloon. The doctor told me to take a benedryl which did not help, it just made me sleep badly. The following day I went to work and they immediately sent me to the emergency room. Again. Because when I was in the hospital they had also found I had a urinary tract infection so they perscribed an antibiotic, and I was almost through the regimen before my body decided to stop taking it. So, I've lost another three days of work. I am however home, I am going to work tomorrow and try to get my life back in shape. However, I don't have enough money to even remotely cover my bills.And this is all before the first hospital bill comes in, so...
I am going to be posting a whole slew of games and art and collectibles on Ebay this weekend and hopefully I can make it before the bills come in. I just never know, sometimes I can sell a teaspoon and other times I can't sell a crate of Queensware. If you want to come and look this weekend you all know my Ebay name is arlnee, right? Pass it along, I'm unloading almost every game I have and the ones I'm not, I'm just going to take down to the Gamestop and unload because I don't think I can do much more but trade them in.
However, again, and I know this is presumptuous: if you would like to donate money to my survival fund, any amount would be greatly appreciated. I'm trying to think of some kind of thank you gift to send to donors, but whatever it is, each one will come with something you never ever see anymore: a handwritten personalized thank you card. The kind only your grandma sends out anymore. That is the least I can do for anyone willing to help me pull myself out of this hole I fell into. Because frankly, if I lose this apartment, I don't have a lot left. It's all I can do now to hold onto my job with bloody fingernails.
Like I said, anything would be appreciated, and all of it (as in ALL OF IT) will go to paying bills. Not lip gloss or laptops, not coffee at Starbucks. It goes to the water and the sewer and the gas, it goes to the car payment (which I am already a month behind, so I have to come up with that so I don't fall two months behind because dammit I only have five stupid payments left!) and it goes to the insurance. It does not go to cable because that's included in my rent; likewise my internet is bundled so I'm not buying anything extra or unnecessary. I just need enough to hold back the dam until I can get a full paycheck on November 4.
If you would like to donate, my paypal address is my gmail address, which is arlenecharris (at) gmail (dot) com. If you can't, or don't feel like it, or stopped reading because this is too long, that's fine. I'm not going to judge you. I know I'm holding my hat out. But for me, I'm not going to be looking down on the people out on the streetcorners with the cardboard signs anymore. Because this last two weeks scared the shit out of me and it's hitting me that that could be me.
On September 29th I was sent to the emergency room in an ambulance when my face went into spasms at work. I had been having severe jaw pain for two days but couldn't find a dentist who could see me and take my stupid lousy insurance. I was given a perscription to calm my jaw and released. However, the next day while still chasing all over town trying to find a dentist, one finally called another ambulance because the whole right side of my face was sagging and it looked like I was having a stroke. So on Sept 30 I was admitted to the hospital. I'm not prepared to go into the whole story but I spent a week in there, it wasn't a stroke, I was treated very aggressively, and the pain and facial spasms are gone. It is much better, but I lost a week of work and we have no sick pay. Thanks to my friends who came to see my cats had food and clean litter and some love time. I was released last Thursday and was supposed to go back to work on Sunday, which is the first day of my work week.
Saturday I started swelling up like a balloon. The doctor told me to take a benedryl which did not help, it just made me sleep badly. The following day I went to work and they immediately sent me to the emergency room. Again. Because when I was in the hospital they had also found I had a urinary tract infection so they perscribed an antibiotic, and I was almost through the regimen before my body decided to stop taking it. So, I've lost another three days of work. I am however home, I am going to work tomorrow and try to get my life back in shape. However, I don't have enough money to even remotely cover my bills.And this is all before the first hospital bill comes in, so...
I am going to be posting a whole slew of games and art and collectibles on Ebay this weekend and hopefully I can make it before the bills come in. I just never know, sometimes I can sell a teaspoon and other times I can't sell a crate of Queensware. If you want to come and look this weekend you all know my Ebay name is arlnee, right? Pass it along, I'm unloading almost every game I have and the ones I'm not, I'm just going to take down to the Gamestop and unload because I don't think I can do much more but trade them in.
However, again, and I know this is presumptuous: if you would like to donate money to my survival fund, any amount would be greatly appreciated. I'm trying to think of some kind of thank you gift to send to donors, but whatever it is, each one will come with something you never ever see anymore: a handwritten personalized thank you card. The kind only your grandma sends out anymore. That is the least I can do for anyone willing to help me pull myself out of this hole I fell into. Because frankly, if I lose this apartment, I don't have a lot left. It's all I can do now to hold onto my job with bloody fingernails.
Like I said, anything would be appreciated, and all of it (as in ALL OF IT) will go to paying bills. Not lip gloss or laptops, not coffee at Starbucks. It goes to the water and the sewer and the gas, it goes to the car payment (which I am already a month behind, so I have to come up with that so I don't fall two months behind because dammit I only have five stupid payments left!) and it goes to the insurance. It does not go to cable because that's included in my rent; likewise my internet is bundled so I'm not buying anything extra or unnecessary. I just need enough to hold back the dam until I can get a full paycheck on November 4.
If you would like to donate, my paypal address is my gmail address, which is arlenecharris (at) gmail (dot) com. If you can't, or don't feel like it, or stopped reading because this is too long, that's fine. I'm not going to judge you. I know I'm holding my hat out. But for me, I'm not going to be looking down on the people out on the streetcorners with the cardboard signs anymore. Because this last two weeks scared the shit out of me and it's hitting me that that could be me.