I really, really don’t want to do this. I’ve done it far too many times before, and every time I think I’m going to be completely okay, something sneaks up on me.
My dad is really sick. He has stage 4 COPD and chronic heart/lung/kidney failure. His dad and brother have both died from similar illnesses. My dad is one of the most important people in my life. After being mostly gone for the first 15 years of my life, he got out of prison, really turned his life around, and we have a relationship now that I am so, so, so thankful to have.
He just got out of the hospital a couple days ago, but it sounds like he’s going to have to go back tonight or tomorrow because he can’t breathe. He tells me not to worry, but I can’t help it.
However, my dad lives 3 hours away from me and my car needs repairs. I have to pay $550 to get the water pump fixed to make my car drivable, and that’s money I just don’t have to spare. I’m poor and the first person in my family to go to college, and I really want to make this work. I can’t support myself if I don’t have my car, and I can’t go be with my dad if I can’t drive there. I’m afraid he’s going to die and I won’t be there to tell him I love him. The fear of my dad dying is one that I don’t want to face, but I know if I can’t be there to take care of him before/if it happens soon, I will regret it for the rest of my life.
If you can and you want to donate, I would be eternally grateful. If you can reblog this, it would mean so much to me.
People laugh when I say that my tumblr friends are like family, or that y’all have put me through school, but it’s true. When I have a crisis, people have always been willing to reach out to me (be it through messages or donations or whatever else) and not only does it give me hope, but I truly feel like this is a new form of political/feminist change-making and that’s really special. I want to thank y’all for what you’ve already done for me, and what might be done. It means more than words can say.
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Y’all have already helped me raise $150 and I couldn’t be more grateful.
Please keep donating & boosting if you can! I really want to get home to my dad as soon as I can.
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Me and my dad usually talk on the phone 2 or 3 times a week for an hour or so every time. One of the hardest things about all of this is that he can barely breathe, which means he can barely talk, and even if he could, he’s having trouble putting sentences together. So not only can I not see him, but I can’t talk to him either.
Our phone calls have very quickly gone from long chats filled with terrible puns and theories about how to make the world a better place and have devolved into me asking him how he’s feeling today, him taking ten minutes to say he feels like hell, and a lot of me listening to him groan in pain.
It’s very, very hard right now. The fact that I can’t call him just to shoot the shit for awhile is really, really getting to me. I want to go see my dad. Please, please help me do that if you can.
Please please please boost or donate if you can.
My dad was just put back into the ICU this morning and my sister says he’s worse than before. Please, please, if you can help, it would mean so much to me.
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taylorchapma@gmail.com
I’m only $250 away from being able to afford to get my car fixed! I really, really need my car to get back and forth from work and school and to go see my dad and be with him while he’s in the hospital.
Please boost & donate if you can.
paypal.me/shakethecobwebs
taylorchapma@gmail.com
Only $150 left to be able to fix my car!!!!
Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who has given so far! If we can raise the rest in the next couple of days, I’ll hopefully be able to have my car finished by this weekend and then I can go see my dad!!!
Please keep boosting & donating if you can. It seriously means so much to me ❤
paypal.me/shakethecobwebs
taylorchapma@gmail.com
Only $70 left and I will have enough to fix my car!
THANK YOU to everyone who has helped so far. It means so much to me to fe lthe kindness from everyone willing to help me right now. Things like arranging rides and adjusting schedules and not being independent have been really hard the last week. Plus, my dad is still in the ICU and is having trouble talking to me for more than 5 minutes at a time on the phone, so I’m reall eager to go see him.
Poverty leaves people without a safety net, so thank you for volunteering to be mine right now.
Thank you so much again to everyone. Y‘all are amazing ❤ ❤ ❤
Only $45 left and I will have enough to fix my car!
Let me just say again how utterly grateful I am for everyone’s help. Y’all are helping me survive longterm and that is so, so, so beautiful and kind.
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