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Disabled vet needing help

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I am not one to ask for help ever, here it goes, i worked my whole life and spent 12 yrs in the marine corps and raised my family. I moved to Massachusetts 12 yrs ago and met my wife, we both held fulltime jobs i was in machine repair she was a nurses assistant for 25 yrs. Life was good until my wife had an injury and that led to a 15 hour surgery ( spinal fusion surgery) after that everything got gradually worse. Not soon after i was diagnosed with severe copd and put on oxygen but continued to work for our health insurance and get the bills paid, my wife kept deteriorating and she ended up being permanently disabled, she has had 5 surgeries in the last 2 yrs ,you see i love her and i will always be by her side, last july she had her 4th surgery and had been recovering from that and it was a hard road but we did it! Slowly i was having a hard time at work and my oxygen level's were going way below normal and my body was suffering but somehow i continued to work, mid November my wife started to complain of hip pain and after 3 excruciating days she finally went by ambulance to the hospital with assistance from the fire department, only to find out she had broken her hip and pelvis ( no injury it just happened)she spent 12 days in the hospital after emergency surgery, i was barely holding onto my job because now i had gone from only using oxygen at night to using it all day and night! My wife finally came home and i am her caretaker, she is non weight bearing and in a wheelchair and after 12 weeks of physical therapy and nursing a ct scan showed she did not heal right and needs a total hip replacement but her dr is sending her to Boston because she has other issues going on, she suffers greatly from chronic venous deficiency ( poor blood flow in her legs) her legs have swelled so much that now her legs are splitting open and draining...We are at wits end, our bills have piled up, we have gotten way behind on rent and in jeopardy of losing the only vehicle we have, i am out now on disability but i am hardly bringing anything home due to a 200.00 a week deduction for health insurance which we desperately need! My wife's check has gone to medication and rentals, you see we have stairs and she cant walk, so out of pocket we pay for a recliner rental, wheelchair and ramps which is so costly, on top of this we need to get her to see a specialist in Boston and cant afford the van service! We are slipping so far and struggling with so many health issues we are at a loss for words, i made this go fund me to raise any money i can get to remain in my home and keep my vehicle, it doesn't matter the amount we need all the help we can get! Thankyou for taking the time to hear our story.
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    Laura Brandel
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    Plymouth, MA

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