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2 years ago, we lost my dad to progressive early onset Alzheimer's disease and have never been the same since.
To give some background on who my dad was, he was a missionary. He went on mission trips all over the U.S., Italy, Greece, and the Dominican Republic. His acting and original stories, scripts and songs and performing in churches, prisons, and functions kept food on the table while my mom handled scheduling his bookings and flights. He intimately worked with about a dozen charities including World Vision, Prisoners For Christ, and Royal Family Kids Camp. He was a good man, then Alzheimer's atrophied his brain for 10 years until he finally passed in 2012.
Back in 2002, when his symptoms started becoming prominent, he no longer could keep his full time job. To accomidate the financial demand, my mother took on 3 and on occasion, 4 jobs while my big brother Paul (the one with dark hair) went into the Marines and had 3 full tours of Iraq on the frontlines.
This left me (the girl in the front) to take care of my dad as main caregiver as he declined over 10 years, also doing my best to raise my then 5 year old little brother.
Over these ten years, we have dealt with the terrorizing fear of not being able to pay the mortgage every month; in constant stress of losing the house. Every month.
We go to food banks. We've abeen on stamps. But between the house, utilities, car insurance, (stacked up) medical bills for hospital/dr visits/and finally hospice care for my dad on top of college tuition and food- we've had our electricity, heat, water, and phones shut off more times than we can count... we're drowning.
Within the past year, my mom has had 4 surgeries, I had an ambulance ride and endoscopy... adding on to the ceiling-high amount of bills left over from when my dad was constantly in and out of the hospital as he declined.
Getting to the point, we are out of grace periods for late payments on our mortgage... and if we don't pay $5000 by the end of the month...
Forclosure and homelessness.
We are very scared and out of options.
Please consider us and God bless.
To give some background on who my dad was, he was a missionary. He went on mission trips all over the U.S., Italy, Greece, and the Dominican Republic. His acting and original stories, scripts and songs and performing in churches, prisons, and functions kept food on the table while my mom handled scheduling his bookings and flights. He intimately worked with about a dozen charities including World Vision, Prisoners For Christ, and Royal Family Kids Camp. He was a good man, then Alzheimer's atrophied his brain for 10 years until he finally passed in 2012.
Back in 2002, when his symptoms started becoming prominent, he no longer could keep his full time job. To accomidate the financial demand, my mother took on 3 and on occasion, 4 jobs while my big brother Paul (the one with dark hair) went into the Marines and had 3 full tours of Iraq on the frontlines.
This left me (the girl in the front) to take care of my dad as main caregiver as he declined over 10 years, also doing my best to raise my then 5 year old little brother.
Over these ten years, we have dealt with the terrorizing fear of not being able to pay the mortgage every month; in constant stress of losing the house. Every month.
We go to food banks. We've abeen on stamps. But between the house, utilities, car insurance, (stacked up) medical bills for hospital/dr visits/and finally hospice care for my dad on top of college tuition and food- we've had our electricity, heat, water, and phones shut off more times than we can count... we're drowning.
Within the past year, my mom has had 4 surgeries, I had an ambulance ride and endoscopy... adding on to the ceiling-high amount of bills left over from when my dad was constantly in and out of the hospital as he declined.
Getting to the point, we are out of grace periods for late payments on our mortgage... and if we don't pay $5000 by the end of the month...
Forclosure and homelessness.
We are very scared and out of options.
Please consider us and God bless.
Organizer
Jessica Shelton
Organizer
Bothell, WA
