My partner and I had to lay down in a doorway sharing one single gray emergency blanket in the freezing rain last night, no b.s. . I cannot express enough just how intensely and severely worried I am that either my partner or myself might end up getting very very sick if we have to spend another night without proper winter gear. The temperature has been around 20 in the middle of the night. My partner has had a fever for two days now already. I'm scared that if we don't at least have some dry blankets tonight that they might get even more sick. Two of my friends have already almost died in the last month from severe pneumonia. So, if at all possible, if anyone that considers themselves to be a loving, caring, and compassionate human being that they might be able to see that I really actually do in fact need assistance. I apologize that I myself currently lack the capability to care for either myself or my partner in even the most simplistic and necessary ways. I absolutely feel so entirely aweful and guilty that I am having to resort to asking/begging other people for the kind of help I wish that I could provide for ourselves. I feel so ashamed of myself. I unfortunately did not choose to be homeless though, believe it or not. Please help us out with any little bit possible. I can assure you that nobody, and i mean nobody would appreciate the ability to afford the things that very well might become the difference between us having to, for a second night, lay in a doorway dealing with bone chilling cold and one person after another walking past us and just ignoring the fact that two human beings that are good people are literally freezing, and they just act like we don't exist. Just because we're homeless does not mean that we deserve to be treated like scum. I seriously am starting to wonder if me posting this ad is going to make any real kind of difference at all. I just feel like its getting harder and harder to convince people that when I say I need help I actually do in fact mean it. I'm already in the verge of giving up all hope with humanity. Whether I am believed or not by whoever reads this posting, the fact still remains that I really do need help. So just imagine for a second that what if I am truly being honest. I consider myself to be one of the most real and honest people around. The last thing that I'm ever going to do is be dishonest to the people that might actually be my saving grace. We returned to our tent yesterday evenening to find our tent and two tarps torn to pieces like someone had literally taken a sharp knife to it. And because it had been freezing rain for hours, all of our bedding had gotten completely soaked. I am seriously getting completely fed up with how many people in this world are just absolutely cold hearted. My partner and I try to keep our area as neat and clean as possible and we try to be as respectful to neighbors as possible at all times. If someone, like one of our neighbors for instance, has an issue with us camping somewhere, for any reason at all, we are more than happy to move to a different place to camp at instead. The last thing that we have any intention at all to do or cause is any sort of drama or potential problems with anybody, ever. Especially if we intend to set up our tent in a spot that's in the vicinity of residential homes. My point is, whomever the individual is that decided to destroy our tent, a homeless persons home, could have just simply asked us to leave and we would have as promptly and immediately as possible, seriously. I mean, who does something like this to someone in the midst of winter of all times with the temperature below freezing. I spent all night in shambles. Ive tried calling all of the homeless services and they're all out of tents and tarps and blankets. If someone doesn't help us out today then I really don't know what we're going to do. We really need dry bedding and a tent. All of the winter shelters are completely full. I have literally never in my entire life felt so in complete and dire need ever. Please, I beg someone to please have empathy. We really need help more than ever. My PayPal is Kerala Dee @KeralaDee95 and my cash app cashtag is $BaileyteaDee. I just know that there's at least one person that can find it in their heart to imagine themselves in our shoes and has the capability to help us out with buying a tent and some warm blankets so that we can at the very least be warm tonight so that we don't get pneumonia.
Just so everyone is aware, my partner and I have already checked around at the local homeless services (ones that usually can supply people with blankets, tents, clothing, etc...). Unfortunately they are all tapped out of sleeping bags and warm bedding. The only thing we were able to get was 1 disaster/emergency blanket (you know, the gray ones that are made of steam pressed lint) and so that's all we have been using for the both of us for the last two nights. So, we really really need someone to aid us soon. Its been getting down below freezing at night outside. Warming shelters are completely full too.
The closest store to us is Fred Meyers, as far as buying 2 sleeping bags goes. I think, for the ones with a twenty degree rating, they are about $35-40 a piece, and we need two.