Ben's Medical and Therapy Expenses

Ben is my 10 year old son who has been battling multiple challenges since he was a toddler. We've know for years that Ben is on the autism spectrum and has also been diagnosed with ADHD, Sensory Processing Disorder and Generalized Anxiety. The past year has been particularly rough for us with the added diagnosis of Bipolar disorder complicating the issues we were previously managing.

Ben has had 4 inpatient hospital stays to date since December of 2016 and sees multiple physicians each month. In addition to his physicians, Ben receives occupational therapy as well as cognitive behavioral therapy . It has been recommended that we also get Applied Behavioral analysis therapy for Ben, which consists of 3-5 visits each week. As it stands, each therapy and doctors office visit comes with a $35 copay. Right now, these copays total $105-140 a week. The addition of ABA will double this weekly cost and I am struggling to keep up as it is.

I am a single working parent trying my best to provide the care that my son needs, and I am not eligible for assistance of any kind. I have several thousand dollars in outstanding medical bills due to Ben's recent hospitalizations and recently took a pay cut in order to switch to day shift when I no longer had help to care for Ben when I was working at night. I have exhausted my retirement fund at this point just trying to make ends meet.

Any funds raised will go to exhausting medical bills as well as payment for future treatments. If enough is raised, I will use some of it to repair damage to my condo caused by Ben's violent outbursts.

At the very least, thank you for reading this and consider our situation. I appreciate that more than you know.