Help Me Meet My Bills As I Recover

Hi friends, my name is Anastasia (or Nicky, as my friends call me) and I have just come out of a surgery that sadly did not go as planned.

My health has been pretty bad the last few months. I’ve been struggling with chronic illness for the past few years, which thankfully has been pretty manageable up until this point. But my health had taken a pretty steep nosedive about a month ago. It kept getting worse and worse, to the point where I spent three different nights in the ER in a single week and a half alone. Thankfully, they found what most likely caused the nosedive— a pretty sizable gallstone that had been causing me insane pain for over two weeks.

Though the ER elected to just send me home after first finding the stone, and a second time when my pain quadrupled, I finally got to see a surgeon for consultation. He was appalled that the ERs had left me with my gallbladder for so long, and insisted that I come in for surgery first thing the next day. I went in for surgery, which I thought would be the solution to all my pain, but sadly it was not. I found out the hard way that I am almost immune to all painkillers due to my chronic pain. I was in excruciating pain after the surgery, and the nurses refused to give me pain meds and sent me home, where I went almost straight to the ER. I ended up having to stay in the hospital for four whole days as they tested me to try and figure out the source of my pain, with no luck. So without any relief, I was sent home again.

Even before the surgery, I had been struggling. I had been bent over in pain, unable to stand up straight for over two weeks. I had been struggling to work for a month, If I’m being honest. On top of all of this, I’m self employed- I have no sick leave that has covered my time unable to work.

So throughout all of this, my healing time has been way slower than expected. We are not sure if my chronic health conditions caused the slow-down or if there is something else still undetected, but at the end of the day, I thought I would be feeling well enough to get back to work in order to meet my bills, and now it is clear that isn't the case. I have been scrambling to find ways to make spare change here and there since this pain started, but it's becoming very clear to me that it won't be enough. Please help me meet my bills for the next two months while I heal. The stress absolutely can't be helping my healing, and I just want to make sure my fiancee and I can stay with a roof over our heads while I recover from this. Please don't feel pressured to give if you don't have the means. If you have it in your heart to do so and find that it is within your means, may you be blessed and may it return to you tenfold.

Thank you for all of the support and love during this time.