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Update- Radon
7 years ago
I keep trying to talk some sense into dad, but it just isn't going to work. He gets severely pissed off at me every time I even mention it.
He still thinks people are conspiring against him to steal his money. He still doesn't believe radon is anything to worry about at all.
I have to move. I have to get the fuck out of here and be on my way... but I have nowhere to go.
Can't get a job, can't try for disability because I'd lose my healthcare. If I lose my healthcare I lose months of progress in a program that will better my life if I complete it.
If I do complete it, it will take months to recover from the surgery at the end of the process. Gastric sleeve.
Through all of which, I'll have to live here, in this house with the radon issue that I'm not allowed to fix.
I can't vent the place, it'd pull all the heat right out of the house, and then I'd get yelled at more for wasting power.
I'm really in a pit right now, and I can't seem to crawl out of this one and I honestly have no idea what to do.
I can't move in with any friends or rent a room in their place because nobody has the space, and I don't have the income to help with bills and cover vet costs for my dog.
Same would be said for getting an RV or anything else. It costs to rent (rv=land rent), and it costs for utilities, as well as food and internet.
I'm extremely stressed out. For the first time in my entire life, I actually worry about my health. I'm actually trying to better my health so that I can have a future.
Unfortunately, dad isn't. He says he worries about my health, but how is that even possible at this point? There's no damn way he cares if he willfully refuses to see any kind of issue with a poisonous, radioactive gas leaking up through the floor.
He still thinks people are conspiring against him to steal his money. He still doesn't believe radon is anything to worry about at all.
I have to move. I have to get the fuck out of here and be on my way... but I have nowhere to go.
Can't get a job, can't try for disability because I'd lose my healthcare. If I lose my healthcare I lose months of progress in a program that will better my life if I complete it.
If I do complete it, it will take months to recover from the surgery at the end of the process. Gastric sleeve.
Through all of which, I'll have to live here, in this house with the radon issue that I'm not allowed to fix.
I can't vent the place, it'd pull all the heat right out of the house, and then I'd get yelled at more for wasting power.
I'm really in a pit right now, and I can't seem to crawl out of this one and I honestly have no idea what to do.
I can't move in with any friends or rent a room in their place because nobody has the space, and I don't have the income to help with bills and cover vet costs for my dog.
Same would be said for getting an RV or anything else. It costs to rent (rv=land rent), and it costs for utilities, as well as food and internet.
I'm extremely stressed out. For the first time in my entire life, I actually worry about my health. I'm actually trying to better my health so that I can have a future.
Unfortunately, dad isn't. He says he worries about my health, but how is that even possible at this point? There's no damn way he cares if he willfully refuses to see any kind of issue with a poisonous, radioactive gas leaking up through the floor.
You could suggest your dad see his regular doctor to talk about what this radon issue could really do to his and your health. Someone with expertise who he will listen to. Even having him talk to your personal doctor may help.
Good luck
...You also assume he will listen to any professionals. He's spoken to a few, and still refuses to believe it.
Do you guys own the house or do you rent it? The best advice I can give is to go to http://avvo.com and look for legal advice regarding radon levels. Try chatting for free with some lawyers and see if they can give you any advice (not saying sue your dad).
The other option is to just wait it out. Get your surgery, recover, and then get the hell out of there. I'm sorry this is happening to you.
Since your dad is...reluctant, shall we say, to trust professionals on the matter, try to get him to do his own research online, educate himself on the matter. If the only person he trusts is himself, let himself educate himself. Or, if he refuses to educate himself, start printing out packets from reputable sources on the dangers of radon and "accidentally" leave them around the house.
"Whoops, I was reading this article on cancer dangers of radon from Cancer.org, and I totally got sidetracked by my dog cracking teeth all over the place and left here on your seat."
If I left packets or anything out, he'd just toss em in the trash without even reading them. lol
(My apologies for any weirdness spelling or grammar issues. Updated my phone and it reverted to stupid mode and I’m just tired of going back and correcting its autocorrect fails ugh. I freaking hate its “new” keyboard!!!)
Gaia bless
Pakesh_De
Snoofy old burr
Sorry I can't be of much more health than things you seem to have already tried.
I never heard about radon hazard before.
That's why I'm in this situation where I can't move.