I'll make this short since I'm in bad shape medically. I have a severely reactive system that can't handle light or many, many chemicals, mainly man-made ones. It's basically a matter of being allergic to the world.
I've been told I have to leave my apartment after 15 years, because they don't want tenants who get assistance from the state with rent. I'm too sick and limited to do the work involved in moving or even looking for a place. Travel and going into daylight and reading anything but very blown up print (and only briefly) is damaging to me. I'm too generally sick for anything but lying or sitting almost all the time.
I'm between Chicago and Milwaukee. Gov't org's aren't any help, nor regular charity org's because the condition is so unusual and there's no way of gathering evidence that proves the symptoms.
I can't even hold in my head all the stuff I'm supposed to do, can't do paperwork because of eyes, can't even be up usually. Can't go out to look at places. Can't even pack. It's very hard to explain the symptoms but it took me a YEAR to get halfway packed to be ready for a move. I had to stop.
I have several months. They'll go be fast. I'm thinking of some sort of "networking", where perhaps you might know someone, who knows someone, who knows someone in my general area, who might be good enough to step in and help. This is a major extraordinary sort of help. I only see it happening through personal contacts my internet friends might have. I don't know many people online. It's too excruating on the eyes to do much online. I tried FB but people just shrug and say sorry.
The nightmare scenario coming next year is my being thrown out on the street, into DAYLIGHT, with no access to the completely darkened room that I need every day. Light basically semi-electrocutes me. It's horrible. Ordinary homelessness would be a picnic by comparison. Torture.
Church groups... I have yet to make those calls. I'm horrible on the phone. I go blank and sound like a nut, because the symptoms are so severe. I'm not religious. I'm not a sweet grandmother, not a case that warms the heart. I can walk, my limbs work, so my severe disability does not show. My experiences with churches have been so judgmental that I dread putting myself through calls I probably am in no shape to make anyway.
embryorm@earthtones.comSending me a PM on this forum may work, but I know I can't respond due to some quirk of my computer or the site. I have some trouble with e-mail too but it's at least usable. I can give you a phone number.
Please see if you can figure out some way to help. It may not seem possible at first, but don't give up on this too soon, PLEASE. That sort of "networking" might work even if no one you know is near me.
This is embarrassing. I wouldn't ask for help if it weren't needed. Thanks for listening. I couldn't make it short, sorry.