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Updated June 27nd 2026 | Previous Post

So long story short, I really need some help.

A little over a week ago, we were on our way to two appointments (my mom's physical therapy and my daughter's HRT check-uo) and after my daughter's appointment my mom started driving kind of erratically. Mind you, we were about 20ish miles away at that point, so we took the back way to avoid crashing on the freeway. My mom still ended up damaging our car, though, so that's one of the problems I have to deal with now.

Anyway, we got home and I got her to the hospital, thinking she might be having a stroke (thankfully, that was not the case). We did find out she has a small aneurysm in her brain that they're going to monitor and she's probably been giving herself too much insulin since December because she can't monitor. They also decided it would be best if she went to a skilled care facility for a few weeks because she didn't have the strength to get up and down our stairs (she's been there sine last Sunday).

While she was there, she got news from her older brother that apparently their younger brother was found dead a week prior. We have no other information at the moment, but my mom is not dealing with it well. But I don't think there's going to be a funeral she needs to go to, so that's something I don't need to worry about arranging.

But here's what I need help with:

I don't drive so my daughter and I are back to relying on Ubers. My mom's facility is actually less than two miles away, but that' still about $30 round trip. Any help getting to go see her would be amazing, plus my daughter has an appointment in Chula Vista to get her tooth looked at (finally) on the 25th and I don't want to reschedule that.

I need a little bit of help for food before the 1st. Not much there, maybe $40. My GERD is acting up and I'm having trouble eating some of the stuff in the apartment.

I need a new fan for the living room, where I use my laptop without hurting myself the way I did using it on my bed. We don't have heating or air conditioning in our apartment and the heat is even starting to come to California.

I may need to cover both of the glucose monitors that were ordered for her as her pharmacy says they can't bill Medicare Part B for them. We would really like to get her a Freestlye Libre, because part of the reason she's basically been overdosing on her insulin is most of the time she can't find her smaller monitor, and pricking her fingers is starting to hurt her.

We got a call this morning from the funeral home this morning and my mom needs to print out some paperwork to fill out, so a friend was able to send me the money where I can take an Uber later today or Friday to print it out at the library. We may need to come up with money to help my Uncle Donald pay for the cremation, because we're trying to get the Veteran's Association to help with the cost and getting his ashes interred at a military cemetery where my Uncle David was living (either Utah or Nevada) but we don't know what's going on with that since we haven't heard from my Uncle Donald for over a week.

Until we get the car fixed I need to come up with funds for two doctor appointments my daughter needs to go to: one is about a $85 round trip and the other would possibly about $150. They're later in the month but just in case we can't get the car fixed in time, it would be a huge help to have at least the dental appointment covered so she can finally have the root canal started for the intense tooth pain she's had for the last six months.

My friend who helped has also been covering our storage unit and we really need to get it cleared out this month. We can rent a U-Haul for multiple trips, but the downside is the round trip mileage from where the unit is to where we live will cost us around $100 each day we do it. So what I'm thinking is if we can get the oil pan damage fixed that was incurred before my mom was in the hospital we can just pay for gas and go back and forth and transport smaller stuff in the van (along with my mom's walker and a camping chair for me) and then get a U-Haul for one or two days to move the big stuff.

Speaking of the unit, we have a piano in that unit which was a gift from my Nana to my mom and my sister and I before she died. We're waiting to find out what's going on with our apartment recertification so we don't know if we're going to stay here or not, and then once we know that we can see if there's even a way yo get the piano delivered to our apartment since we're on a second floor. I'm hoping I can get a smaller unit for a month or two that is cheaper than the unit we currently have that I can pay for on my own while we deal with our HOA and find out what we need to do to move it as soon as I have a lease. So there's that as well.

I had to overdraw my account to pay my daughter's phone bill so she could get in touch with her doctors, so if I can get $55 to cover that ASAP that would be a huge help.

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Getting approval for my short-term disability pay is out of my hands now. It took three attempts for the State's fax of forms to be noted by my doctor's office (possibly because the State had my name spelled wrong!); the office actually called me on Thursday past for clarification of what it was about. Doctor is out of the office for the holiday weekend until Tueday, so I'm praying that means it'll be submitted by the end of this coming week. I have calls into the personnel office at my store to ensure they complete and submit a Certification of Employment on my behalf.

In the meantime, I have shelter through Monday morning before I'm back to sleeping in my car. Any contribution to help me extend my stay would, once again, be heaven sent. With tax and fees, the total is $73/night ($66/night weekly rate). I hate asking again, but the nights I spent in my car the week before last were the absolute worst of my life, and I'm praying hard to avoid that if I could.

These are my ankles after the night spent in my car: