• lonefighter@sh.itjust.works
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    16 hours ago

    Reading this while working a shift that will put me at 85 hours of work this week. Will be able to buy groceries this month and pay for the surgery my cat needs. Also, am tired AF.

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      12 hours ago

      I’m sorry :( I hope your kitty will be okay. I have a $4K vet bill to pay too, but i love my cat, as I’m sure you do yours, so we make it work, no matter the sacrifice. Anyway, best of luck <3

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        8 hours ago

        Vet bills are the worst, but my cats don’t have the option to do anything about their situation or choose to work different jobs or change things about their life so it feels wrong to decline medical care and potentially make them suffer when they don’t get a say in the matter. I can make that choice for myself and my own medical care, but it feels cruel to make that choice for them, you know? They’re stuck in whatever life I give them, so I try to make it better than mine.

        I hope your cat is ok!

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      I wish my ADHD and other issues would let me work 85 hours a MONTH with my toddler around all day every day. I’d be able to pay myself a very decent salary for the part of my country that I live in right now. If I could consistently work a reasonable 150 a month, I’d have the deep into 5 figures amounts of debt my ex put me into, paid off in 2 years. Worst part is, I used to be able to work over 200 a month easily, but I wore myself out like that and now that I’m an exhausted single parent, it’s so, so hard to get anything done.

      Best of luck to you and your kitty. It sucks that you need to work so much to be able to afford necessities.

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        Oof, I don’t know how I’d function if I had a toddler. Single parents amaze me, I can barely function as a single person. I have pretty bad ADHD and work is an absolute white knuckle struggle, but I have absolutely no one since my last relationship failed and I don’t want to be homeless so I cry a lot at home and then slap a smile on and grind through my shift.

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          8 hours ago

          Kitty will be ok, thank you. Just needs teethies taken care of. If we’re lucky not pulled, just anesthesia and deep cleaned, so not really surgery, but still expensive as hell. If not lucky, teeth pulled and painkillers, so more like surgery. He goes in tomorrow, both of us will be very unhappy.