Expenses, needed home repairs, for James M. Tobin

March, 2024,

This is Jimmy Tobin. For all who know me, you all have followed my rare, neoplasm, terminal, metastatic, "Neuroendocrine Carcinoid Tumor" cancer, diagnosed in 2005.

I previously had a goal amount of, $50K. but today's economic reality dictates that people just do not have enough to donate, to help me, when I need your help the most! .I desperately need home repairs, and enough money to help me afford the next six or more years of my survival with this rare cancer, if only, I can get more exposure, and ask for donations. maybe a crowdfunding venture, to ask my friends, classmates, to SHARE my story, maybe other social media, because, I am at a critical crossroads, is also taking a toll.about my out of warranty roof, that decided to cause my master bedroom ceiling to start dripping water on my head, at 3:30 AM, last Tuesday, when we had very heavy rains.   Because of my recent leaking roof, I have been presently experiencing extreme anxiety, depression, uncontrollable shaking from nervousness, worried sick, constant feeling of throwing up, clammy skin, heart pounding from my chest, fight or flight mode, feeling like the end of my rope, just feeling like what’s the use in carrying on, when I’m getting close to running all out of savings, and then there is no life line, sleeping only, three or four hours per night, worrying, and feeling perplexed on how am I to survive all of this, without the willingness, or kindness of others, to want to help me and my life's journey with a rare tumor cancer..   I really hate to ask this of you, but could any of my classmates possibly donate more than once? With my rent higher than my Social Security, I will need to depend on my friends, and the goodness of strangers, to see me through this part of my cancerous life!   My last $25k goal, a few years ago, I only received $13K. Far short, thank you, but now, knowing I need a new roof for a reduced price through Habitat, that will only leave me about $1,000, or less, to my name..  I’ve known I’ve needed a roof, with water stains from rains before, I’ve been climbing up and down on the roof, laying tarps down, every time it rained. Now, the water has found its way into my bedroom ceiling, and a few other interior ceiling damage in my kitchen wall, with water getting inside, from the roof....  I’ve waited for ten years for Habitat to have this program, to help Seniors with their home repairs. Ten years ago I had the money, from an inheritance my dear Mother left me, but as time passed, so did all my money, now they have a program, but since Covid, Labor, lumber, roofing material costs have exponentially increased, a few years now, construction costs are through the roof.  If Habitat for Humanity can give me a no-pay back grant of $12,000, towards a new $21K shingled roof, my co-share of costs will be the difference, between $9k-$10k, that I will have to pay out of pocket.   With my current goal at 50K, which sounds like a pie in the sky, incredibly high amount, isn't really, when we figure in that $40K will last me only, a little less than only five (5) years, but would also allow me to actually afford to pay for this new, $9K, and $10K, out of pocket, shingled roof, without doing so, the damage will only continue to the interiors, which will greatly devalue the home..  Without help, I might be forced out of the family home, leaving everything behind, and with all the rents our family has paid this park, (Over $750K) it is very disheartening to just walk away, because if I ever do need to sell, any money that I will get, will be unfortunately, the only money for the rest of my life, and also, with no where else to move to, with all rents very expensive all over the country..   Not one of you owe me anything at all, not one bit, and when I ask if my classmates could please, please, donate to my cause, as much as you possibly could, maybe once or twice, maybe more, then that might calm my busy, cluttered mind, This is very serious and unfortunately, I will need ongoing support for years to come, so maybe, when you think of me, feel free to donate freely, I beg of you..  I am very fearful of being homeless, and I’m shaking uncontrollably, with fear as I write this. I am a nervous wreck, AND I NEED YOUR HELP!!    And, if you have any ideas on how I can expand this funding, on other platforms, to be sure, that I may get the donations needed, for the betterment of my health, and to my future survival, living with a nauseas cancer, which over these years, no anti-nausea meds have ever helped my condition, I suffer day and night with this unsettling of a life, who needs help, I do not know, how much more of this HELL, that I will be able to handle, without intrusive thoughts of me thinking, that I'd be better off no longer here on this Earth, with all of my trials and tribulations, feelings of all walls closing in on me, what I've lived through in eighteen years, then to watch all my savings wither away, at 69 years, is not very comforting.PLEASE HELP, WITH WHATEVER YOU CAN, i WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE IT, MORE THAN YOU'll EVER REALIZE, I will be needing your assistance for a few years to come, if at all possible for me to see my life through to the end, hopefully, more happier and content than I am now. THANK YOU, ONE AND ALL!

GoFundMe Link - https://gofund.me/c69c66bc

Zelle - (657) [phone redacted],

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