B.C. woman with terminal illness says she has been evicted due to frequent ambulance calls
Global News
On Wednesday night, Sharon Kowalchuk said her Nanaimo landlord cut the power to her rental space, meaning it was freezing and she was unable to fill her oxygen tank.
A woman in Nanaimo, B.C., says she has been evicted from her home with only a few months left to live.
Sharon Kowalchuk, who was recently declared palliative by her doctor, received an eviction notice of two weeks from her landlord.
“I’m dying,” she said. “My organs are shutting down slowly. I’m hoping not too quickly.”
Kowalchuk said she and her husband had been living at the south Nanaimo home for about six months but they are now staying in a hotel room.
She said Thursday that the landlord just threw them out and refused to take their rent for March.
“He told us to ‘f’ off and to stop bothering him,” she told Global News.
On Wednesday night, Kowalchuk said the landlord cut the power to all the units upstairs, meaning it was freezing and she was unable to fill her oxygen tank.
She and her husband were also unable to cook anything and their food in the fridge and freezer spoiled.