so! almost an exact year to the day since my grandmother died due to NHS negligence (don’t worry, we’re making a formal complaint) and three months after i was rushed to A&E for stress, causing my body to flip out and collapse me unconscious….my aunt (not the terrible one) just called from hospital to tell my mother and i that she had two heart attacks yesterday! one at home and another in the hospital!
she’s alive and has two stents in her heart now but due to the nature of the surgery and the fact that she suffered two, quick succession heart attacks, she’s going to need 24 hour care for two weeks and then further care for another two weeks. my mother and i, being the people that cared for my grandmother and being the only people with the keys to her house are the only people able to do all the proper cleaning, cooking, dietary changes, etc.
my aunt, however, lives in kent and we live in london. my mother is also in classes that she can’t afford to miss and we have two cats that cannot be taken to kent with us (aunt’s cat has medical problems), so we’ve decided rather than both staying at my aunt’s house to take it in rota, with me being the main carer.
now to the crux of the matter: travel is fucking expensive as hell and so is food. i can cover my travel and food, but not comfortably at all (because no-one anticipated this, duh).
it would really help me out if anyone could chuck some change our way bc i forsee a Very Rough Month, emotionally, physically, and financially.
it would also be helpful if you could reblog this post bc we’re all poor as hell out here but a little from a lot of people can make a tangible difference in our lives
also can life chill out for fucking once