B.C. woman with terminal illness says she has been evicted due to frequent ambulance calls – BC | 24CA News
A girl in Nanaimo, B.C., says she has been evicted from her dwelling with only some months left to dwell.
Sharon Kowalchuk, who was not too long ago declared palliative by her physician, acquired an eviction discover of two weeks from her landlord.
“I’m dying,” she stated. “My organs are shutting down slowly. I’m hoping not too quickly.”
Kowalchuk stated she and her husband had been dwelling on the south Nanaimo dwelling for about six months however they’re now staying in a lodge room.
She stated Thursday that the owner simply threw them out and refused to take their lease for March.
“He told us to ‘f’ off and to stop bothering him,” she instructed Global News.
On Wednesday night time, Kowalchuk stated the owner reduce the ability to all of the items upstairs, which means it was freezing and he or she was unable to fill her oxygen tank.
She and her husband have been additionally unable to prepare dinner something and their meals within the fridge and freezer spoiled.
“It started over me calling ambulances,” Kowalchuk stated. “Too many times.
“He came out two days later and told Gerry he was going to boot me out because I was calling too many ambulances and he was getting complaints.”
The couple was paying $1,050 for a room and shared a kitchen and toilet with six different folks.
Global News reached out to the owner however he declined an interview.
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Kowalchuk’s husband, Gerry Casey, stated the owner instructed him he was calling too many ambulances. Casey stated needed to, as a result of his spouse’s deteriorating well being.
“I’m still in shock that he would do something like this,” Casey stated. “I went back yesterday to get my work boots and he’d had the locks changed already, one of the doors was already boarded up. I just can’t believe someone would do something like that.”
He stated he simply needs to make his spouse’s remaining months the most effective that he can.
“She’s a wonderful lady and she doesn’t deserve any of it.”
Alex Martino, one of many administrators at Risebridge, an area charity that helps folks locally discover housing, helps the couple file a tenancy dispute.
“I’m trying to help them get resettled in a place that’s comfortable,” she instructed Global News.
B.C.’s Minister of Housing stated it’s conscious of the scenario and is now investigating.
“(Thursday) is when we first found out about it, and we had the compliance officer go in, talk to people, assess the situation and there’s an active investigation on it right now,” Ravi Kahlon confirmed.
A GoFundMe has now been began for the couple to lift cash to switch a few of their belongings and assist discover them a spot to dwell.
AS of Friday afternoon, it had raised greater than $23,000.
Martino stated the group help has been wonderful.
“Just because this one person is taking advantage of them, there’s, as you’ve seen, this whole community rallying behind them.”
Kowalchuk stated she could be very shocked by the response to her story.
She stated she is planning on suing the owner and so they need to have the ability to return and retrieve their belongings.
She stated she feels scared that she doesn’t know what’s going to occur subsequent.
“You just have to take it a day at a time, you know,” she added. “I didn’t expect to have to move out of my house and rearrange my whole life.”
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