I haven't slept on my own bed in two plus years. I went away to Cranbrook in 2019, there I slept on a dorm bed — far too firm, springy, and all around unpleasant. In 2020 the case was the same. Even during the pandemic when we were all sent home. By that time I had moved my cousin into my loft to take my place as a roommate. She had already gotten settled. I gave her my room and she’d already made it her own, there was no way I was going to take that from her. Throughout the whole pandemic I slept on an air mattress. Midway through summer our apartment contracted a bedbug infestation from our hoarding neighbors across the hall. I lost so much. All of my bedroom furniture, my mattress, my couch, mom's furniture – so much. I started to Go Fund Me when it was time for me to move out to Milwaukee. Many people generously donated but I did not hit my goal. However, I had just enough to get me here, I knew that God would provide the rest.
I don’t prefer my pay schedule, it's bi-monthly, something I'm not used to. Its made my adjustment period very rough. It has made getting out my resource hole a very slow process. I was really starting over. I was able to salvage some of my furniture but most of it was lost. For months it was just me on an air mattress as my only place to casually sit and rest. This is excluding the kitchen table, but those seats always gave my back issues. After the accident last spring I haven't been the same, and I haven’t had the resting place to really recover. To this day, even as I speak to you this instance— I'm on an air mattress. Thankfully I have a full body pregnancy pillow that makes things a little bit easier, but two years without a solid mattress your body starts to adjust — in the worst kind of way. But today, in this moment I am joyfully celebrating a victory. I haven't had the money for a mattress, it's one of those expenses that are just too expensive to tackle at once and I was denied to finance one. But allpraises be to the Lord, my tax return was just accepted by the IRS.
