“There’s nothing worse than telling a young lady with severe, life-threatening anorexia I cannot buy her food … It’s a perfect storm of horrible.”
Michelle Gimlin lies on a carpeted floor beside her 23-year-old daughter who sleeps on a twin bed each night. She cannot afford another bed nor is there space for it in their cramped one-bedroom subsidized apartment located in Davis, Calif.
Prior to the pandemic, Gimlin worked as a self-employed massage therapist, earning around $4,000 a month. She stopped working in March of 2020, fearing she could contract COVID-19 and spread it to her daughter who is especially vulnerable and cannot get vaccinated due to her medical condition. On top of that, she needs to be with her daughter 24/7 to care for her and ensure she eats.
That’s left her and her daughter who, is legally blind as a result of her condition and cannot work, without any income. Michelle Gimlin: I was very much struggling to make ends meet. We live in low-income housing and our rent is $735 a month for a one-bedroom apartment. With California’s COVID-19 rental-relief program I’ve been able to just pay the minimum of $200 a month for the rent but that expired after July. Now August and September rent are due.
I’ve tried to talk to people about my situation but it’s really awful because they’re like, ‘Just get a job you could work from home and just do anything or do even DoorDash DASH, -2.55% ’ and I’m like, ‘I can’t. She’s ill.’
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