Hey friends, I have to stop pretending I can handle this on my own and reach out for help.

As some of you may know from following me on Twitter, I'm going through a lot right now with health problems in my family. My grandmother has been fighting off the water in her lungs for the past 6 months. She’s currently in rehab and her daughter, my aunt, who has been taking care of her has just been released from surgery.

Even closer to me, my dad is on the kidney transplant list and struggling to make it to dialysis while my mom is sick.

She’s had a difficult time recovering from surgery 3 months ago that's left her with open wounds and unable to drive. What is means for me is that the burden to help has been on me for various reasons.

Right now, the situation with my family is at catastrophe-level. Because my mom has had a hard time recovering she had an incident where she was bleeding so badly at the grocery store she was offered an ambulance and had to decline because she couldn’t afford it. To make things worse she’s been my dad’s sole caretaker.

She is the only one at home with my father who needs to go to dialysis three times a week. Because of her recent injuries, he has to Uber to and from dialysis each day, adding to their piling up medical expenses. Prior to all this my mom worked as a nurse practitioner and had to be on her feet all day before the surgeries. This also means her job is impacted and opportunities to do telehealth have not completely replaced her typical income.

Where they’ve lacked, I’ve had to cover for them. The amount of medical supplies she’s going through in attempts to heal is an additional $400-700 monthly.

On top of all this, my 15-year old dog was diagnosed with cancer in April. He was also diagnosed with a heart murmur that he needs additional medication for. I know we’re nearing the end of his life, but the vet bills have been a few thousand dollars on top of everything else.

This has been the hardest time of my entire life and I cannot continue to help everyone alone. I've exhausted everything I have in order to care for my family, but I need to rebuild my financial health on top of providing money for medical supplies and monthly payment plans for past surgeries and procedures.