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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWell, Hell....My unemployment is basically finito...
I got $300 left and the next payment is $238
Dunno what I am gonna do after that. Working is not happening, especially with us in the purple tier and me with a autoimmune disease. I see the rheumatologist this week, maybe she will put me back on disability... I've been on and off with illness and a car accident last year...
Feels like I cant seem to get my feet under myself
Working on some content to release on Teach:able, I have a full college course I taught in 2016 that I can expand and offer online. That is about all I got to offer, and I gotta still keep myself busy, like I am doing SOMETHING productive.
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)to places risk will be lower but will lose UI soon. Not sure how much longer. I will have to investigate to see if I can figure how much I have left.
I dunno what I am going to do but will soon be on the money that is suppose to last til I die.
FirstLight
(13,360 posts)unless I sell the house (which is not paid off)...maybe just buy a damn RV and go on the road
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)have to sell the house. I have been paying attention to real-estate. Or, I go back to a job at an hotel. And that seems awfully foolish.
FirstLight
(13,360 posts)it's insane that we have a "booming" tourism industry going but the schools are closed and many of our people here are out of work due to closures...
It also makes me angry that we have YET to see another "stimulus" and I'll tell you now that $1000 is a fucking DROP in the bucket for what bills I owe right now!
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)again, that is if all goes well and do not spend a penny beyond what I need. Lol. Isn't that so sad? I mean, who would have thought I would be living this. But, here I am.
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)I only get 247 a week but that helps.
FirstLight
(13,360 posts)maybe they will make it availabke when the whole thing is tapped out? IDK
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)direct me where exactly go. And you want to do it before you miss a week so it just continue. It is one of the choices on Oregon screen where I do my weekly. And now I just do the same weekly but is the extended UI until Dec 26.
FirstLight
(13,360 posts)I'm sure the EDD will let me know what the options are ...probably in the next 2 weeks cuz the amount is less than the next 2 weeks.
ughm i might have to drive 2 hours to Sac but I bet the EDD office is closed because covid
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)Luz
(772 posts)converted her into an rv. My UI runs out in a few weeks and I'm 61, no with jobs available around here I'm up shit creek. I've got enough to last me through February and thats it.
I'll be leaving my home then, to live in a van...hopefully down by a nice river.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,848 posts)are you talking Social Security disability? Or something else that you can collect from.
FirstLight
(13,360 posts)but yes, i need a better diagnosis to pursue permanent...even partial....
I havent even touched it for years but I knew my health and stuff was getting steadily worse. I was doing great till Thanksgiving 2018, then I crashed & burned. Lost my job at the school district and Boys & Girls Club...I loved it but my body just broke.
then I got a seasonal job 2019 spring, but had a major car accident in july and have been struggling ever since. I mnaged to get back and finish the season in my reservations job. But I was still on disability when the first lockdowns happened...no more Physical therapy, no more neurologist, all care stopped. So I suffered for a couple months but was never "released" off disability cuz of covid.
I re-applied for unemployment in july...but that ship has sailed. I havent had gainful employment in 2 years. and the idea of going into the hotels at a front desk position is cringy at best...not to mention I am 50 - and have been definitely seeing where older workers are not as hireable ...yeah...
MerryBlooms
(11,767 posts)Without going into too many details, I lost out on disability because I hade the means not to apply, and thought I was being a 'good' person by not applying. I was penalized and told had I applied immediately after my car accident, instead, I would have been declared disabled, even though I'm as disabled now as I was then. But, because I lived off my own money and didn't apply, I'm not disabled. After my initial 9 months in hospital, 5 months on vents because of ARDS, 6 months nurse home care, wound vac, scoliosis, PTSD, constant pain and numbness, bells palsy, 3 diagnosed depressions, 8 incarcerated hernia operations and 1 more to go... Nope, I'm not disabled all because I didn't file right after my accident, even though all my issues are because of the accident. File ASAP. I've been denied 4 times. On the bright side, I do home health part time. There's no way I could work full time. Doesn't matter, according to the government, I'm not disabled. The paperwork is daunting and depressing in and of itself. There is free help to file, get it.
FirstLight
(13,360 posts)I have hesitated as well because I didn't want to admit that my body isn't onboard with my agenda of "success"... Disability isn't just about your limitations, it's really a mental health thing about letting go of the idea you can just "suck it up" and DO BETTER! I am still struggling with this piece
MerryBlooms
(11,767 posts)lymph damage, contracted spinal MRSA while at Mt Sinai south FL. Had my L2 replaced 4 times because of dirty hardware and the MRSA. I don't even know how many procedures I've had. I spent 5 months in Mt Sinai South Miami, then was released after one horror show after another, one coma after another. The MRSA ate my L2 again a year later because of dirty hardware, and thank goodness I was home in Portland, OR where I received proper care. I died three times in FL, nurses with claws two inches long, my room hadn't been cleaned weeks on end, my doctor raised hell... My son stayed with me 24/7 as much as he could because he was afraid they were going to kill me. Back and forth between the heart institute... When I was back in the hospital, I was terrified. I had night nurses asking me if I'd had my meds... The head of oncology was head of my pain management, because my L2 had been eaten away by MRSA, and she's asking me if I've had my meds. Even my head doc, kept telling me he had to get me out of there before they killed me. The last intubation, I went into anaphylactic shock because of lidocaine overdose... In a coma again for I don't know how long. The difference in care between Portland and Miami was night and day. Had I not made it home to Portland, I'd not survived.
I've got a neck full of scars from long time vent. I've had to use a suction device to suck out the foam from my lungs through a hole in my neck. I know what it's like to be drowning in fluids, the sounds you make, the desperation to breathe. I know what it's like to press the button and no one come to you and you panic grabbing for that tube sucking thing and still pressing that button. These people who are dying from covid are dying a horrible death. I've been there, it's terrifying.
FirstLight
(13,360 posts)that is horrifying... I can't imagine... Hope you are on the mend!
MerryBlooms
(11,767 posts)Considering the laundry list my body went through, I think I'm doing well... I'm able to work part time, care for myself and others, garden and much more. I see a therapist who specializes in trauma. Please don't try to be strong and go it on your own. File and appeal... Get good counsel. I hope the best for you.
FirstLight
(13,360 posts)Other countries have motivated to give people income assistance for MONTHS
but even in the middle of a fucking pandemic...the RW has made this about "welfare" or some bullshit...like the economy breaking down on main street means nothing, like parents having to stay home because schools ore closed...etc
our whole infrastructure (for families) is broken to bits.
And the damn Senate treats the downtrodden as if they are no better than panhandlers...
How many folks like me are there, or who have it worse? how many who have already felt the impact of utilities doing shut-offs? evictions?
stopbush
(24,396 posts)money to be in the Congress.
FirstLight
(13,360 posts)that's where my bigger angst comes from I suppose...
MLAA
(17,282 posts)FirstLight
(13,360 posts)You know I am crossing fingers that I can pull it out of the weeds. Ive been up against worse...but I also hope to bring our consciousness to the fact that RIGHT NOW people are suffering and struggling, and it is gonna take some BIG shifts till we feel it here on the ground...
Meanwhile, all I can do is try to find my new angle ""...and be grateful I dont need much but pb&j and some smoothie mix to keep me alive
MLAA
(17,282 posts)FirstLight
(13,360 posts)sort of like... "you can't scare ME, I was a single mom of 3 living on food stamps...!" Something happens to you when you have had to plow through things ...you can choose to be the victim of your life or fight for something to shift. Sometimes the only thing I can shift is my own attitude or actions...but what ever little things I can do to make a ripple in my reality, that's what I got
Demobrat
(8,970 posts)You should have a couple of extensions. They wont show up in your account until whats there is used up. Google Ca unemployment extensions.