You probably know I live with my landlady, she’s living on an old age pension and I’ve just got my disability benefits reinstated, but still waiting for my full backpay - I’ve had part of it so far but still waiting for another instalment, and what I’ve received already has gone on debt repayment. Still in massive debt. (because I had to live on credit during my appeal until there were no more lines of credit open to me then I had to start living off mutual aid).

Last week the washing machine stopped working, hardly surprising since it’s about 20 years old and has had a lot of problems before. My landlady managed to find the cheapest deal possible on a new one, just £450 for the machine, delivery, installation and removal of the old one. But without mutual aid I can’t raise £450. We have already tried the council for help, wrote about that in my last post.

My landlady and I are both disabled, I’ve had a stroke and get severe injuries from daily activities, because my left side is so weak. Right now I have a torn rotator cuff just from lifting a light item and I have trouble walking. My left arm is barely usable and several years of physiotherapy haven’t helped. I can’t lug bags of washing to the laundrette, the lau ndrette costs money anyway, whenever my landlady’s away I’d have to pay for taxis, and when she’s here we still can’t carry such heavy things from a car park to the laundrette. My landlady is almost 80 and disabled too.

I honestly don’t know how to manage without getting the new washing machine, and it’s time sensitive too as I have hardly any clothes anyway, I’ve already tried washing by hand but I just don’t have the strength or enough use of my arm to do it properly. I’m immunocompromised (cancer patient) and have chronic skin and foot infections, I can’t wear the same dirty clothes for days on end.

If anyone can contribute via paypal please PM me.