Hello everyone, I am here to make a post I really would do almost anything to not have to do but it is no longer an option unfortunately.
While the original post of this thread was totally to my surprise, and not something I would have ever done myself back then. It ended up ultimately saving both myself and my senior mother, and the property we live on which is something I will be forever thankful for to Midnight Kitsune and the Starsector community at large. However times keep changing... For the worse, which is probably rather predictable to anyone else who has ever been down a similar road themselves.
As much as it pains me to do this, I am here once again to ask for financial assistance and or work, and this time doing so myself. From anyone who can / wants to. Life is so absurd, in some ways things are better than back then, and in some ways worse. I actually have more potential remote work opportunities than at any past point in my life! But is actually more than I can do with her degrading physical and mental health and other extenuating circumstances that consume more and more time. There is only so much time in the day, and barely scraping by as I am now just isn't good enough especially with what recently happened.
I live in the desert, Arizona which is an amazing state but something I been kicking down the road for a long time is my rooftop packaged air conditioner. It is from the 90s and amazingly, unlike most air conditioners that last around 15 years or so, still works. So I kept kicking that can down the road rather than replacing it because it continued working and my maintenance of it kept it floating along. However it is currently giving up the ghost, parts are rusting through, the coolant it uses is no longer available and neither are its spare parts, at least easily. And even if it COULD be repaired, due to its advanced age it wouldn't even be worth it.
PictureIn short it is screwed. And even a repairman I had look at it told me as such and they speak the truth. It isn't even full summer yet, it gets to about 100 degrees during the day when at the peak of this season is closer to 120. And already it is running basically non-stop, the air it pushes not even very cold and it will not survive this season most likely and who knows how much longer it will keep limping along for. If it was just myself I would tough it out but I cannot put my senior mother through that, it would literally kill her. Also due to the rooftop nature of the AC unit, the price to replace it is SIGNIFICANTLY more than ground level ones or mini splits due to needing heavy equipment to get it up there and installed. The estimate is around $6,000 USD according to some of the quotes I got. And that is around the average price as well due to getting multiple quotes from different outfits.
QuotesSo here I am, unfortunately once again with little choice and as much as it hurts to do this I see little other option. I unfortunately chose to kick this can down the road and it wore out at the lowest point of my life so far. And even working on various freelance music and soundFX every, single, day? I have no chance of affording its replacement when I also have to care for her. For anyone else who ever has to take care of senior family members with Alzheimers / Dementia? I wish with all my heart, that you have help doing so. Family, friends, The State... ANYTHING but doing it alone while also trying to make a living.
