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Well my cold finally died down a bit and I just managed to get to see a dentist. After all the insane effort I went to to see one, firstly they didn't even bother checking the entitlement form that I'd gone to so much time and bother to get, and then they said there was nothing wrong with my teeth now anyway. I suppose that's good though. My migraines and bladder are flaring up though, maybe because I started taking my folate supplements again as the tingling in my legs is so bad.
I also seem to be getting taken for a ride on lemmy again. Someone on there contacted me to say he was going to send me a food gift card. Then, as has happened multiple times from other people before, I got a message every day for the next few days with some excuse about why he hadn't been able to do it. Why do people do this? I should know by now that if someone contacts me saying they're going to help, they won't come through. If someone is actually going to help they just do it. The people who send messages saying they intend to help at some future time, never do. I know this and yet I still let myself feel relieved and excited about the promised help, I still rush online every day to check if it's come through, only to be disappointed that there is nothing on my inbox but an excuse or just silence. I still don't understand why people do this, what do they gain from it? It's even worse when they leave a post in your mutual aid request thread implying that they have helped you, so other people who might have helped don't bother, and then they don't come through and you get nothing. It is such an endless phenomenon. Thanks god one person responded to my post for real this month, I reckon I can stretch it out for a couple more weeks, otherwise i don't know what I would do right now.
Oh and my landlady bullied me into helping her lift her xmas tree, despite the fact that my disabilities cause me to get severely injured when lifting things, we've argued about this before and I've just finished a course of shockwave therapy due to my last injuries. Anyway now my back and achilles tendon are hurt.
I'm glad your cold finally got better, it always sucks being sick, but especially when there's so much else going on.
At least someone came through, but it's really frustrating that people keep promising something and then don't follow through. You deserve better.
And fuck your landlady. I know she's a big help in many ways, but srsly, that's not okay.
Thank you.
Yeah, there are lots of problems with living here, she has no respect for any type of boundaries. But still there's no real alternative except a homeless shelter or something, which would be awful. Just one of the many issues of capitalism, no money, no real choice of living situation.