Please Help Me Avoid Eviction

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Hi,  Am currently facing eviction from my apartment and the loss of most everything I own unless am able to give my landlady many months of back rent within the next very few days, or at least show her this account and tell her it is being sent to the bank--so she can see the money is on the way and then give me til the funds clear.

 I do not have a car, am sixty-six years of age, and am on many prescriptions for serious medical conditions (congestive heart failure, and several other conditions), and have been experiencing a lot of fear, verging on panic, of being on the streets and not surviving.   If get eviction notice, have three days to pay or they change the locks and I'm locked out as well as losing all I have.  Am asking anyone who can help me in any way, especially those who I have helped and been genrous to through the years , to please help save me, and possibly my life, and help me keep my small little apartment and all that I have worked for.  

Through a series of misfortunes and unfortunate luck,  including the prolonged deaths of both of my parents within a year of each other and under extremely difficult and harrowing circumstances each time, including myself ending up in the hospital with congestive heart failure and other heart ailments and then being my parents primary caregiver even though was myself suffering from stabbing heart pains most of the time while caring for them and doing all the many things necessary under such circumstances, including leaving a pretty good job--partly because I was getting shafted there but couldn't really fight it because I made a decision that my priority and duty was taking care of my parents.  

My then girlfriend had me see her doctor who told me there were all sorts of conditions going on with me and that I was ready to keel over at any time.  But I had to keep taking care of my parents so couldn't stop and rest, and that scenario went on for about a full year after what that doctor said, with me visiting my parents in hospitals or rehab centers pretty much every day as well as taking care of most everything to do with their house and all sorts of stuff that had to be done around that situation, and I had no choice but to keep powering through it, or else not have cared forand protected my parents as much as I did, which I feel proud to say was quite a lot.   My emotional and physical health were severely compromised during that time, and am only recently getting to where, even though still have the conditions, can get through the week without a few days of debilitating pain, horrific headaches, vomiting, etc.  

Most everything that could have gone wrong during all this time pretty much did, including a drunk speeding through an intersection late one night when i was on the way home from a rough night at the hospital with my dad, and squishing the passenger side of my car into the middle of the car and me ending up in the same hospital that my father was in, and then later my parents old car, that I then started driving instead, getting stolen and completely stripped.  I got to where I had to stop using the phrase, "It can't get any worse", because stuff like that kept happening and happening and happening.   And on and on until my current situation.  Feels almost like I have been paying off lifetimes of karma.

 My physical health is getting a little better now, and I have worked on myself a lot and am probably more centered, more aware, more confident, more skilled, etc., than I have ever been but in the interim most everything has fallen apart.  And I just need to get over this current hump so that I can avoid becoming a statistic or casualty on the street, and instead have a little bit of footing to start anew.

I have some ideas about how to go about restarting, and believe I can rebuild a life and mostly just need to catch up and get back to square one so that I can put those ideas into practice, and also maybe explore and be open to any other ideas and possibilities of how to do so.  (Am open to suggestions.)

It has been a long time of difficulty and hurt and sadness and isolation and I finally feel like I am in a position to turn things around and make significant changes if I can only get past this current challenge.  Am asking anyone who knows me, or maybe even some who don't, especially those who I have helped through the years (and for what it's worth I once gave--not lent, but gave-- about eighteen thousand dollars to help out certain people, and am also currently owed about fifteen thousand by other people--though the odds of ever seeing any of that are roughly slim to none--and also lent about another fourteen thousand to other people which was eventually paid back).  I am hoping the universe, in the form of you, whoever you are reading this, will return the favor and help me out of this quite frightening jam.

 As of now, the alternative seems to be possibly not surviving on the streets.   Please help me.  At the moment I desperately need it.  Am mostly able to stay pretty darn positive and even still be helpful to people in pain of one sort or the other and to put smiles on their faces and so on.   And yet I have simultaneously also been feeling quite scared about this situation, as you can probably well imagine.  

So if you can kindly give me a thousand or more, or anything really, even a few hundred, or just a hundred, or whatever, and help me survive, it will be very greatly appreciated.  Thank you, and some day, some how I will pay it forward.  Please feel free to ask me any questions you may have about this situation.  

Yours truly, and in fear, but still feel hopeful, 

Mark

 

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Mark Roche
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Santa Monica, CA
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