I’m humbly asking for a little help for myself since this is probably the worst trauma of my life right now.
Dad was t-boned by a drunk driver Friday night, the car was spun and he was ejected through the windshield into the engine (the hood opens different from most cars) and was trapped unconscious burning til a passerby saved his life. He’s going to need amputations, and he’s combative about all care, so not only are we fighting to keep him alive, we’re fighting HIM to do it (he’s phobia-terrified of hospitals). NONE of us have had sleep.
I have to stay home from work to help with things here, and I can’t afford to stay home. I’m only part time at work and make about $180 a week, and i really seriously need the income to stay up on bills, but there is no way I can leave right now. I’ve already missed two days and I’m not coming in next week either (there’s too much we have to legally do within a certain time frame even with the trauma we’re all trying to process) but the loss of paycheck isn’t doable but if I go into work I’m gonna break down (none of us have slept) but if I don’t go into work next I can’t pay my bills (unless like, can you pay a credit card with a credit card somehow? I’ve had maybe 15hrs of sleep in six days since it happened I can’t think straight but if that’s an option it can keep me floating til I double pay I guess idfk I can’t think)
I just need a little bit of help. Dad has a severe concussion (a literal softball sized lump on his head where he went through the windshield), the vertebra that supplies blood oxygen to the brain is fractured, and the surgeon just said he’s probably gonna lose 2 fingers from the fourth degree burns on his hand (you can see his tendons— his knuckle is completely gone- and the burns have pretty much degloved him. Do NOT google that if you don’t know what it is). I am very much still in shock even if it doesn’t seem like it. A human person should never look how my dad does, and he should absolutely be dead rn.
If anyone could spare a couple bucks or reblog or whatever, I’d super appreciate it. It would be one less thing for me to worry about and I’m absolutely desperate for any kind of help with things rn because I don’t know what to do. We’re all so exhausted on maybe 2-3hrs of sleep a night, my mom couldn’t remember how to turn on the tv with the remote and started sobbing (that’s ALL our brain states right now) and I’m the oldest child and trying to keep shit together..
I’d really appreciate if anyone could spare a few bucks just so I can keep my head above water while drowning in everything else. If you can’t, I’d really really appreciate reblogs.
This is for the slow writers out there. Those who take weeks to write one chapter. Those who take years to finish one manuscript. Those who regularly write only 100-300 words in several hours. Those who take months to put out a new chapter. Those who haven’t touched their stories in years but it’s still a WIP because they can’t stop thinking about/taking notes for scenes/etc.