#stroke cw

I am reposting this in hopes that it may get more traction as I still have commission slots open. My family is facing severe financial distress still and some recent events have made it very prevalent. We kicked out an abusive family member that lived with us and it hit us hard money wise. I don’t talk about her much anymore, I’m trying to forget her, but it’s something that is still an issue.

I was kicked off my dad’s disability and until we are able to get me back on, or if I am able to get it on my own, we are lacking enough money to live.

My dad's health hasn't improved a lot. We're still fighting with doctors to get her on the right medication and at the moment, I am the only one working. My job is extremely harmful to my mental health, and I am looking for alternate places to work, but I have not been interviewed for anything yet.

TW: CANCER/TUMOURS.  My Nana has recently been diagnosed with a brain tumour, in addition to her cancer diagnosis, that is pressing on the right side of her brain. The additional costs, gas/parking/etc, is going to add to our already hurting budget. I am hoping to be getting on my own disability but that can takes months for them to decide and staying under my dads means I am limited to how much I can work.

If you're able to commission, or even donate via ko-fi I can't even begin to say how thankful I would be.

I usually put what we owe for each but at this point we owe just about everybody. We still owe the mechanic around $600, our phone is monthly and I am behind on that about $200, I have cancelled as much as I am able too. I would love to get my kitten to the vet and for his shots but right now I can’t. It kills me inside because this cat is one of the few things that makes me happy.

www. paypal.me/forgedcosmos OR www. ko-fi.com/sophiefosters

me: I know, Dad, I've talked to -

Dad: - she just can't talk, her brain is fine but she can't talk, no one can understand her!

Aunt: *complaining in the background*

me: Dad.

Dad: I can't understand her, I can't -

me: Can I talk to -

Dad: Here, she wants to talk to you, here, I - I'm giving her the phone, here's snarp, you know who snarp is? - she knows who you are, honey!

me: DAD.

Aunt, slurring but understandable: Hey. I'm going to kill Bobby - do I have your support?

me: Yeah, but I'm, like, in the wrong state to provide an alibi...

Aunt: *laughs* *affirmative noise*

Dad, taking the phone back: So you heard her, she can't talk, she -

me: You didn't understand what she just said to me?

Dad: No. What?

me: She said she was going to kill you.

Other Avatars and Entities are different because the Eye is attacking at their power. Like Breekon is a stranger and being known destroys that. Peter can't be lonely if someone is forcing him onto a conversation about revealing himself.

Parts of my aunt’s brain that seem to have been largely unaffected: whichever ones are responsible for telling people that she’s fine, don’t worry about her, why are you such a worrywart, tell Bobby everything’s fine here, are your sisters okay? Where’s e_t? (Me: “She’s at... the beach.” Aunt: *grumpy noise*)

She sounded pretty close to normal when she was telling me she was fine and asking how everyone was. However, she asked me for my phone number five times, and going into Remembering Numbers Long Enough To Write Them Down Mode clearly made her lose control of her voice - when she repeated the numbers back to me, I couldn’t understand them. When I asked her her room number, she repeated the last three digits of my phone number.

(I think that asking everyone who called for their phone number and writing it down was an exercise that she’d either set for herself or been set by the staff. It sounded like she’d been working on spelling, too - she spelled out Dad’s name the first time she asked about him. Her voice was clearer on letters than numbers.)

Who's next?

“...Are you okay?”