Re: When do you truly lose it all?
Holy shit, I can't even imagine.
At first, when I was reading your post, I got this sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach when you were talking about your kid, because I thought this would be about something that happened to her... Especially given the title.
An over reaction on my part I guess... I mean who would talk about that on a forum like this?
And I can't believe this lease bullshit; but at least you can probably settle it in court pretty fast and cheaply after the fact, and gain a bit of money back that can help you rebuild part of what you've lost.
But seriously, that's, devastating; but it's incredibly impressive to me that your able to power through this. It almost makes me want to become religious, if your faith can help you that much through something utterly Earth shattering like that, almost...
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bby made a great post, and said it better than I could, so I'm just going to second him on it, and add that, as you mentioned, this is at least a great, if unwanted, test of the kind of friends you have and what they would do for you when the shit really hits the fan.
You know, while it's probably more bleak than anything you've experienced before right now, this is going to be one of those things that only serves to strengthen your love for your family though, I think, and hey, that's always a silver lining right?
I know for a fact that there are places all over that will help you with warm clothes, food, even for holidays! loads of baby related products like toys, diapers, and daycare and sports subsidizing, as well as additional monthly funding beyond disability, and counseling that can really help you get your head straight and make better progress; I just wish I knew more of them by name.
I know because I've had to use them before, and for those that haven't had to do so and feel shame at the idea, well, it gets allot easier once you realize how much stuff these places get and literally have to give away or throw away, and the more they give the more funding they get, generally, since they have to document everything carefully and that all gets submitted when it comes time to dole out.
Plus you can meet some really nice people and volunteer for even an hour or two a day if you want, for something to do to keep your mind off your situation and give back a bit at the same time. You don't even have to do the normal stuff like sorting cans or moving bags of clothing in from the donation area; which, as a blind person, can sometimes feel like your actually slowing things down, and instead you can do stuff like speed up their computers with some registry cleaning, disk defragmentation, malware removal
, and temp file deletion, all from a 10 dollar flash drive with portable NVDA and some free apps, using the NVDA remote Add-on so that you don't even have to deal with a weird keyboard or anything.
At least your daughter is unlikely to remember any of this, and at her age she's probably just happy to have a colorful spinning toy, a soft stuffed animal to sleep with, some mashed pees, a clean diaper, and parents that love her.
Good luck guys, and as a child of two young blind parents who struggled for years with everything from money, to moving all over a busy city, to life threatening physical illness, to an overzealous government thinking up reasons to claim child custody; I can promise you that when your daughter hears about the things you had to go through later in her life, she'll admire you as fighters that didn't give up, and have ev
en more respect for you as people.
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