Need help with food and medical costs.

If anyone is able to help me out with food costs, please send a supermarket gift card to my email address. I’m still waiting for my disability benefit backpay (they are paying it in three instalments for some reason and so far they’ve given me only a few hundred pounds.) I’m still overdrawn, have a lot of rent debt to pay off as well as more medical costs. My email address is DisabledAceSocialist@hotmail.com

This one takes debit, credit and google pay:

https://www.sainsburysgiftcard.co.uk/

This one takes crypto:

https://www.bitrefill.com/gb/en/gift-cards/sainsburys-in-store-digital-uk/

I had my foot surgery today, thanks for the help in making it happen. It had been delayed for a couple of months or so because the NHS cancelled non-urgent appointments to save money. It was a stupid thing to do, because this meant the infection spread and worsened until they had no choice but to give me the surgery after all. Because it’s spread they weren’t able to clean up all of the infection today (debridement of infected foot ulcers.) They can only safely use a certain amount of local anaesthetic at a time and the maximum wasn’t enough to treat all the infected areas in one go. So I have to go back for more treatment on 19th May.

What intelligent management the NHS has. They cancelled my appointment to save money which resulted in me now needing two appointments. Absolute geniuses.

This means I’m going to need to buy more bandage packs and other basic items like iodine patches. I’ll need to pay for more transport.

On top of this I’ve spent several weeks with a UTI which has meant I’ve had to spend some of the transport money I was given previously (intended for my regular hospital appointments) on multiple trips to the GP (can’t walk far because of my disabilities and my landlady isn’t here to drive me). I’ve already had multiple courses of antibiotics, then told it wasn’t an infection after all but an overactive bladder, now more test results have come back and it is an infection that just hasn’t responded to treatment.

So I really need help with buying more bandage packs (the NHS doesn’t pay for them) and other items and paying for more transport, both to my regular hospital appointments (for my cancer and stroke treatments and physiotherapy) and continuing to visit the GP for this UTI as well as collecting prescriptions.

I estimate I need about another £300. I hate to ask for actual money because of the DWP checking people’s bank accounts and having to explain it but I’ve got no other way to pay for any of this. If anyone is able to help via paypal please PM me.

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