
Gloria's Disability - Help with Medical and Living Expenses
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I am reaching out to the community asking for prayers and donations to help me with my medical and day-to-day living expenses such as electricity, housing, food, toiletries, over-the-counter medicine, and medical expenses. Thank you for taking the time to read my story. Please share my fundraiser with your network as it can make an incredible difference, and I am desperate for help. Every donation counts, no matter how small. (https://gofund.me/7feccda8).
It took me a while to face the facts that accept, I could no longer work. I have applied for various disability government programs which require a lengthy application and approval process. Due to all the many medical findings and debilitating pain, I have aged, and it is exceedingly difficult to walk, move, stand, and sit. I require the use of a wheelchair to move around, making me housebound. I have not left my house for many months. My brain makes it difficult to focus, multi-task, process information, and it takes forever to complete a task. 2023 was a bad year in which I lost my job during layoffs, dealt with family major illnesses, and in 2023 (2) and 2024 (2) 4 young family members. After many years working constantly long hours, days, weeks, it slowly affected my body in many ways. My health took a toll for the worst along with new health issues. No matter how much I tried, my disabilities took over preventing me from working. I lost my COBRA medical insurance, used up all my savings and 401K to pay for food, living and medical expenses. Being a single woman with no other financial means added to the stress of how I was going to survive and not end up homeless and an insomnia nightmare affecting my health. I thank God every day for family, friends, ex co-workers, vendors and network of others who have helped along the way within their financial means. My resources have diminished and that is the reason I am reaching out to everyone and the community for help.
My medical issues have taken a toll for the worst. The hospital visits became too frequent and having unknown TIAs which reflected strokes like symptoms causing memory loss, slurred speech, gait imbalance, slow thinking, focus loss, and falling asleep while standing was overly concerning to me and my family. At times could not remember where I lived, year or president. The medical findings reveal I have ADHD, brain white matter disease, aortic heart aneurysm, heart arrhythmia, and oxygen deficiencies in both brain and body. I have multiple pinched nerves, multi-level chronic spinal, neuromuscular disorders, sciatica, polyneuropathy, body arthritis, osteoarthritis, multi-level spinal issues with disk bulges, spinal degeneration, spinal stenosis, spondylosis and too many other medicals issues not listed here. The disabilities do not allow me to work and cause financial and medical hardships. I need your help to get through the challenges, while waiting for SSDI disability assistance and getting help needed. Please help with a donation or share my GoFundMe.
God Bless & Thank you…Gloria
Co-organizers (2)
Giovanni Irizarry
Organizer
Orlando, FL

Gloria Ruiz
Co-organizer