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Urgent: help needed asap for medication

A very dear friend of mine who is practically my dad is in urgent need of funds for medication. He's an elder queer, in his 40s, who lives in Texas. I've known him for three years now and he's one of my closest friends.

He has schizophrenia and epilepsy, as well as a couple other conditions. He is on disability and lives in low income housing. For obvious reasons, he's unable to work.

A couple months ago, one of his copayments for his life saving medication increased from around $10 to around $200. He can't afford this. He's been rationing food and medication to try to get by, which isn't working. He's hungry and is in danger of being committed due to his mental health. He can't afford that either. He's already sold everything he can and now lives with the bare bones of necessities. He panhandles when the weather permits it.

I send him money when I can, but I earn way below the poverty level and my partner is also on disability. His parents both died long ago, and he doesn't have any other family.

He only can afford half the amount of medicine he needs each month. Every month, he gets worse and worse. It's horrifying to have to watch him deteriote.

Please, if you have the ability, he could use whatever help he can get. I'm trying to convince him to let me help set up a gofundme, but in the meantime, here's his PayPal link:

Pay Chris Ostrom using PayPal.Me Go to paypal.me/COstrom373 and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries. PayPal.Me

Please please if you can help, he's practically my dad. I wish I could do more. If you can't donate, please reblog. This is my last ditch effort to be able to help him.

This is being posted on 11/18/22. He is in need on a monthly basis, the refill is the first of the month and his rent is due the end of the month. He needs food in between those two dates as well. Anything helps.