u/Sufficient-Crew-5408

It let me cashout once and now it wont let me its so frustrating

So my girlfriend has used earn star with zero issues and I've been doing surveys but there's a $20 min for first cash out. I'm at about $13 but now as of yesterday I can't seem to qualify for a single survey?? Is there something I can do to fix this?

So i have read a lot of posts on here and done a lot of research but Id really like to hear on some specifics. My girlfriend was diagnosed with GBS in 2018. She was in the hospital for a month and skilled nursing for a month and then came home and continued PT. She lost all function in her legs and hands and entire lower body. Within a year she was walking again and overall made approximately an 85% recovery back to her baseline. She only struggled standing or walking long distances and stairs. Fast forward to June 2015. I recognized the symptoms as she started to fall more but had no idea about reoccurrences and was in denial but quickly got a rude awakening. I called 911 and they pretty quickly confirmed she was having a reoccurrence, had pneumonia in both lungs as well as a UTI that turned Sepsis. On day 6 she had to be put on a ventilator. She was on it for 8 months, she had a feeding tube and catheter. Back in March of this year her parents started bringing her home (i knew it was too soon and the wrong call but unfortunately i dont have medical power of attorney so her parents are in charge of those decisions). They brought her home about 5 times over a few months but the longest she stayed home was 5 days before i had to call 911 and shed have to go back to the hospital. Once because we found out she was retaining urine because her muscles are too weak for her to fully empty her bladder. This last time because she began struggling with eating and drinking and throwing up all the time and she aspirated and ended up with pneumonia again and back on a ventilator. Shes been off of it and breathing on trach oxygen for about 3 weeks now.

So heres what the purpose of this post is for. Here we are 4 days away from it marking the year anniversary of her going into the hospital. She has not gotten better. She has not improved. She still cannot empty her bladder. Her legs are entirely contracted (sadly the first nursing home she went to was lying about doing therapy with her and i didn’t know enough to realize it and ill never be able to forgive myself for that i don’t think). Still cant use her hands or sit up.

So im looking for people who have had extreme cases where they never got better or it took much longer than the norm to get better… because as far as i can tell this is not typical for GBS recovery and im starting to worry that this is her new forever and she will not get any better than she is now. Basically just looking for some hope or a reality check because this is so hard and im so sorry for anyone who has gone through this. It’s gut wrenching and horrible to watch it happen to a loved one so i cannot imagine the feeling of physically going through it.

I hope everyone is doing okay right now!

Ps: also open to suggestions for therapies or treatments that could be helpful at this stage for her. The only treatment she got this round was in June 2025 and it was 7 days of plasmapheresis.

Pull someone over for busted brake light. Ask everyone including passengers for ID. Decide to ask to search the car because of old charges listed under one persons name. Bring out k-9 (which supposedly alerted 2x to exactly where the person was sitting that had previous charges)… only thing found was 2-3 EMPTY syringes in one passengers bag. Driver and passenger with criminal record both have city warrants for driving without a license and the driver was again driving without a license. The person with the syringes has zero past criminal record.

Would you book the person with the syringes? Would it matter if you learned they had just been picked up from the hospital where their girlfriend has been admitted for almost a year and she's recently back on a ventilator and this person with the empty syringes also could lose their place to live from spending the night in jail for that type of charge? Or would you simply confiscate them or give a ticket or notice to appear? Would you arrest the driver or other passenger on one of their warrants?

I'm just curious what people say. I experienced this although I won't say which person I am. I genuinely feel like the wrong thing was done and the cops failed this person here but curious if I'm biased or not.

Lately ive been doing surveys like theres no tomorrow for a bit of extra income. One that has some decent paying surveys is “Survey Cash”. Im super close to being able to cash out my first $20 and I can’t wait! Just wanted to share this good app with ya’ll!