Need Aid Care To Live Daily Life

I'm a severely disabled widower, and my aid care now that I live on my own is over $1200 a month, which is more than my rent. Each week, just to be able to get dressed and start my day (not to mention bathing, bathroom, food and drink) I need to make $300.

Yes, I start each week needing $300 just to exist as a person and do everything able-bodied people can do for themselves.

I don't qualify for Medicaid, because I make too much. I can't afford rent, food and bills on what Medicaid allows you to make, and the only way I'd qualify again is to move in with someone else or be homeless. I'm estranged from my family for my safety, so living with someone else isn't feasible, and neither is being homeless.

This is disability in America.

Your donations to this fundraiser will go to paying my aid and, if anything is left, support myself and my service dogs (1 current, 1 retired). I've been supporting myself as best I can by drawing caricatures on the Las Vegas Strip with my mouth, but Las Vegas is all but dead in the wake of tariffs and immigration issues destroying tourism. I have no entry-level job I can do, no gig job I'm capable of.

I'm a human being. I shouldn't have to ask for strangers to help pay for me to use the bathroom and do all of that, but here I am.

Monthly pledges of smaller amounts help a ton, but anything at all is appreciated! The $6k goal will get me through NYE.