#elderlysupport

[Fyi I'm sick and upset so this might not come out good]

As some of you who've been following me and Moms Homelessness Saga for a while now probably know, I have a financially abusive sister who has the info for the Debit card that Moms SSI and SSDI come on, and she steals from her regularly.

Well. She stole $100 off the card on the 1st before I got to the ATM and then because she herself gets paid on the 2nd and because mom and i have a Killer flu and werent thinking straight we just didnt even think about her second check until we were getting ready for bed on the 3rd and

there was only $293 left of a $600 check.

We have the room paid until Tomorrow and have enough money for Two Days. I genuinely dont know what to do.

If anyone has anything they could potentially send our way, it would be a genuine lifesaver at this point.

As I was cooking lunch, the breaker blew for my stove. I reset it, finished cooking, and ate my food. It blew again. I turned it all the way off and back on again, and all of the power went out in my whole condo. 🙃

I checked with a couple of my neighbors, and they all still had power. That means I blew the main breaker to my unit. That breaker is located on the back of my building down someone's driveway, one road over. I walked my ass over there, in this fucking heat to try to figure out which house I needed to ask to let me into their backyard to reset my breaker. 🫠

I figured it out and knocked. It was the sweetest little old lady who was at least eighty five. She said I had to go through her house because her gate wasn't working. A vendor who had been there earlier in the week had bent one of the hinges, and it didn't open all the way.

I told her I would try to fix her gate if she could show me where I needed to go to flip my breaker. She showed me, and I reset my main electrical breaker for my condo. Very exciting.

I manhandled her gate open, and we got her car out so that she could drive it. And I showed her how she could open the gate far enough to get her car in and out on her own without a strapping young(er) person to open it.

She insisted on driving me back to my house, which was less than a block away. She was a delight. And while we were talking, she meekly said, "I hope you come back. Just to visit." 🥹

Y'all. I have a new best friend and I will be visiting her often.

Hi there again. I'm Casi. I'm a disabled Enby who is the only caregiver for my elderly disabled mother, and we're Homeless.

Mom is 70yrs old and has chronic bronchitis and arthritis and Mobility issues, and I'm chronically ill and multiply disabled myself. Where we live has already had multiple days of 105°F (40°C) temperatures throughout the Spring, its gonna be a hot summer. We cannot be on the Streets.

I have us in a Hotel because its the safest option for us. We have no family that can put us up for even a night and while I'm always on the lookout for outreach groups and programs we might qualify for, at this point we're on our own.[ and incredibly grateful for all the kind and generous support to help us through]

But the rates have gone up to Summer Prices which will make things a little more difficult than they already are. The Current rate is $98.30 a day / $688.03 a Week.

Moms Social Security is our only stable income apart from donations and my Redbubble and Ko-Fi shops where I sell my art. I've been looking for stable work but its always been a joke that there "more people than jobs" in this town and that's even truer now than ever, and without any transportation I can't even do Odd Jobs or Gigwork.[cant doordash on foot, can't to yardwork on the other side of town if I cant get myself there and back safely etc...]

Moms income will only cover 12 days of the month, and that's without putting any of that towards Meds or Groceries. We do get $290 SNAP/Food Stamps, on the 9th, but with the prices of everything between absofuckinglutly ridiculous, that too, only goes so far.

Literally Any Amount of Help would be incredibly appreciated. Really and Truly.