I have had lots of fun and interesting guest stays, some very uneventful stays, and made a couple friends of guests. This most recent guest is really challenging. She came with a one month reservation and soon found out she wanted to find a job and move to this city basically. I said, great best of luck, if I hear of anything, I'll tell you. But by the way, I am going to put my house up for sale next month, so if you do find work and decide to live in this city, you will be having to find another place to live.
She was already kinda sick. but not too sick. maybe it was nerves and an upset stomach, who knew? two and a half weeks in she started a job and workd for 4-5 days. she got more sick. She couldn't keep any food or water down, she had to take off from work. She was so sick I convinced her to go to the hospital. She had pancreatitis and severe dehydration. She came back from the hospital, hadn't got a check yet, so couldn't afford the medication. So I bought the medicine, and she'd pay me back when she got her check. I mean she was bad, sick. I was like, you need to take care and follow the doctor instructions and get better as fast as you can. Well she had a lot of trouble taking the medicine, I'm not sure if she wasn't trying, was too out of it from the dehydration to focus, or very ignorant of how medicine and dehydration work. So she got more dehydrated again after the IV fluids wore off and was doing badly again. I am a licenced EMT and could not ignore. I started strongly encouraging her to take the medicine, force herself to stay awake and drink a little more every half hour, and then try crackers and bread if the water stays down. (she was otherwise going to try to eat chili! when the doctor clearly said you must eat very plain foods for a while.) after that, she turned a corner. But I have put in a couple of days of labor into coaching her to get better.
This whole time I had been carefully considering, is it really my place to get involved, you know...
she was still pretty bad, sleeping all day, very wobbly on her feet, unable to focus for up to 2 days after her last paid day.
I did a small facebook fundraiser for food for her. And got her food.
It is now getting past the time when I was hoping to put my house on the market. I have changed into a whole different dynamic with her. I am more of a caregiver than a host/ guest. She says she can't stay with her parents. She says she has no-one. But does she really have me? I have given her most of the travellin advice I had, but we are really different people. I am very physically able and would be working on a farm or camping in a forest and eating berries by now if I was her. My best advice just doesn't really apply to her as she is kind of frail, I'm afraid she will fall over a lot, and orders lots of takeout food. (I'm like, organic local, cheap and healthy, super frugal). That'd be a whole lifestyle change and that would take months, and I don't have that time to hang and encourage, and probably she doesn't eeven want that.
Yup, so any advice to push her out of the nest so to speak. Or if there are Airbnb policies or resources, for guests with medical problems, or guests who overstay, I'd like to know. I can't find them. I am finding it very awkward and difficult to tell her to leave, I am starting to feel resentful. People get so comfortable here, and they don't want to leave. And she's so sick... My real estate agent, who is also a friend of mine talked to her, and said we'd like the house empty one week from today. What if she doesn't find a place.
