This fundraiser is for me Isaiah Jackson I am raising funds for a personal cause related to my life I am from Columbus Ohio this is my story
This support would give me the chance to focus on my studies, content creation, and advocacy work while rebuilding stability in my life. My goal is not only to overcome my own challenges, but to use my experiences to raise awareness and advocate for others. I care deeply about standing up for elders, vulnerable individuals, and communities whose voices often go unheard.
I am especially motivated by my mother’s legacy and the positive impact we were able to have on our small community for nearly a decade. Carrying forward that spirit of service continues to inspire me to turn difficult experiences into something meaningful that can help others.
Me with the football and my mom watching me play football with the kids in my community a usual activity we all did were my mom standing is where we lived
With your help, I can:
- Secure stable housing and a safe space to call my own that honors me and her original goal before she died to get stable housing together to help each other. While I be her caregiver
- Focus on my education and content creation continuing my college education at ohio state University where I have been on a leave of absence and my content aspirations you can view my official Facebook page with 22,k followers verified Official Facebook take a look I am actively online daily you can look at videos photos and my posts as far back as possible if you have the time. Most of my engagement comes from my texts posts
- Continue advocating for nursing home reform and social justice and other important social causes
- Build a life that honors my mom's memory and legacy
- Pay off my utilities in collections
Let's rise above hardship and build a brighter future together. Thank you for your generosity and support.
Every donation, no matter the amount, helps move me one step closer to rebuilding stability and achieving my goals.
Your support will allow me to continue working toward making a positive impact in my community and beyond as I pursue my path as a multicultural, heritage-focused global community content creator. My hope is to use my voice and platform to inspire understanding, uplift others, and create a ripple effect of kindness that reaches far beyond my own story.
My current goal is $1,800 to help cover a first month’s rent, a security deposit, and essential necessities as I work toward a more stable living situation. I have the automatic goal feature turned on so the total can adjust if additional needs arise. I am truly grateful for any support, no matter the amount, and deeply appreciate everyone who takes the time to help.
My mom's Tombstone
My hydrocephalus condition water on brain
What the shunt look like inside of me from my brain to my stomach catheter
My staples from brain surgery number 2 ( may 2024 ) the hook like scar is from the first one ( December 2018 shunt inserted and draining accumulated fluid enough to kill me)
My mother
This is me
Me and my mom
Former ohio state University athlete me
As I reflect on my journey, I realize that many of my personal decisions have been shaped by my multicultural heritage and my upbringing in both Islamic and Christian teachings. I was raised to value compassion, service, and helping those in need, and those values strongly influenced the choices I made during a difficult period in my life. When I met a woman online who was going through challenges while raising a child, I felt compelled to help. Frequently I often prioritized her needs and her child’s wellbeing over my own, even while feeling like parts of my own life were slowly falling
a part
One of my strong advocacy causes is promoting racial unity across all religious traditions inspired by Malcolm X
Malcom X civil rights legend
And my current battle with a skilled nursing facility where I am seeking justice for wrong doing in my level of care.
Brain Surgery Number 1 story below the hook like scar in a photo taking last year after my second brain surgery above of the back of my head December 2018
I suffered cerebral spinal fluid leakage causing my brain to clogg up. With fluid, creating a hydrocephalus headache
Example image 1 hydrocephalus headache
Increased pressure around the brain affecting brain functioning as a whole It feels like a magnet squeezing the life out of your brain. Making it hard to focus and maintain mobility, but with strength and resilience my body fought through the symptoms. I treated it like a regular headache before I knew that it was serious enough to take my life.
Watch this video my content One day before I was diagnosed December 2018
Surgery day 2018 December 14th in the a.m
The higher power guided my footsteps from my apartment. I shared with my family I tell my mom I be back without disclosing my whereabouts I forget what she was doing, but she was awake. I had my blue nike book bag with some changing clothes and a bag of Spicy Doritos one of my favorite potato chips I proceeded to head to urgent care, by foot where I found $20 buried in dirt in route I cleaned it off put it in my pocket and kept on walking. I finally get to the urgent care clinic and they tell me my issue appeared to be physical and that it would require further evaluation and to either refer me to another urgent care clinic with an MRI machine a week out or go directly to the emergency room where they will take me and put me in the MRI machine right away so it was a no brainer that's what I did I knew I couldn't wait a full week my eyes had begin to roll into the back of my head with each time I inhale and exhale air it was bad. In my eyes I might be dead in a week that is what my body was telling me enduring the pain. I listened to my body, in that moment and I continued my walking journey under my own power behold I made it into the hospital doors and I passed out to the floor in the emergency waiting area
Example of the scenery ER waiting area
I had enough energy to make it to the hospital by the grace of God, before my body gave out. I definitely feel like a higher power was with me that day the money in the dirt was a sign of the presence of the man upstairs, my fingers were crossed while walking soaking in my saying "Chin up hands high dried eyes that's, fly third eye undisguised with undeniable insights strategic efficiency decency time goes this is not a flow evolve or dissolve this is about progression not regression" my personal saying in my body of influential work. Although I treated the symptoms like a regular headache my third eye dug deeper envisioning a scenario more serious that led me to wake up and go get checked I never ruled out the possibility, but was definitely shocked when it went from being a possibility of something more serious to a reality of something more serious there was a doctor present at the hospital on call for my particular issue which is rare not for on-call doctors, but for doctors that are already present that specializes in your specific issue when you need them. My surgery was performed and my shunt was inserted I was put onto a hospital bed and immediately taken to the back to a room to get my vital signs back stable and they ordered an MRI
MRI example image
Example image me and Doctor afterwards
The first time I went in, when I came out, the on-call neurosurgeon told me I was going to need emergency brain surgery. My mom got that phone call and completely freaked out. Remember, when I left that morning she didn’t even know where I was going.
You can only imagine what that moment must have felt like for her.
At the time, she had been secretly dealing with breast cancer.
She had been diagnosed a year earlier, in 2017, but she kept it hidden from everyone. Nobody knew what she was carrying on her shoulders.
This was my first surgery ever, but it was a situation she had already lived through once before. While she was pregnant with me, she had been dealing with a brain tumor in the same membrane area.
The doctors told her the risk was too great for both of us. Because of that danger, she had to deliver me early. I was born premature at six months. She never carried me the full nine months because the chances of both of us losing our lives were too high.
So when she received that call about me needing emergency brain surgery, it must have taken her right back to that moment in her own life.
What nobody realized at the time was that she was also quietly fighting cancer. She never told anyone.
She held it all in and carried it alone. She hid it so well that nobody suspected anything.
But after a while, the illness started to reveal itself. The symptoms began to show on her body, and slowly the truth became impossible to hide. By the time everyone finally realized what she had been going through, it was already late.
Holding her hand a week before her death real photo
We spent three weeks in the hospital leading up to her death. From Christmas Day 2023 until January 9th, 2024, she was tired. Looking back now, I wish I had recognized the signs while she was still alive, while she was still fighting to survive, instead of realizing them only after she was gone.
Losing her felt like losing my dad all over again.
I had been putting off my second brain surgery because I wanted her to be there. During my first surgery, she couldn’t stay the way she wanted to. She had an open wound on her neck, and the doctors were worried about the risk of infection, especially with me about to go into brain surgery.
She did come to the hospital when she first got the call about my diagnosis, but she couldn’t stay long. In the end, she only got to be there briefly.
I remember being wheeled down the hallway toward the operating room. I was praying as they pushed my bed forward. My mom was right behind me, walking with me the whole way until we reached the entrance to the surgery area. That’s where she had to stop. She couldn’t go any further than the door.
The surgery lasted two hours and thirty minutes. They used a surgical robot. Thankfully, I was stable before the surgery, during the surgery, and afterward.
A few weeks later, after my staples were removed and I was finally out of the hospital, my mom and I had an emotional reunion. Seeing her again after everything we had both gone through meant more to me than I could put into words.
Example mother son reunion 2018
My second brain surgery story in May of 2024 I was stable before during and after my surgery for the second time walking less than 24 hours post surgery in ICU with head bandage
Example image of myself
my surgery was 5 hours and 30 minutes long I had a craniectomy they removed a piece of my skull in the back.
so my brain can have more room to breathe and took away my tumor, but kept a piece back there because of the increased risk it was to grab the whole tumor.
That the surgeon could cut into my brain so he left a piece back there and took most of it out, and unfortunately it can grow back not only that they discovered a new brain disease underneath the tumor.
My condition limits me at random loss of sensation in my hands arms legs and even feet I experience severe brain fog and mental health depression, but I still be able to manage.
It isn't to the point I can't live by myself I can definitely move around and live by myself I'm independent I just lack support I am expected to have shunt complications at some point which can lead to more brain surgeries my doctor told me
I don't know how many brain surgeries I will have in my life time I guess it just depends on how long my shunt hold up for living with the unknown is always stressful.
The longer the shunt stays in the more at risk you become to infection malfunction or mechanical failure which is common in shunts. Overall I want to inspire people with my story I wanna heal get right so I can continue helping people and empower people.
I originally found an apartment that is currently being renovated. I initially moved in, but I had to move back out because the conditions were unsafe and not suitable to live in.
At this time, I don’t know when I will be able to move into the new unit. The property management told me they will contact me once the apartment becomes available.
I also still have some outstanding balances. I believed my utility balances had been reduced to zero through a Home Choice program I enrolled in some time ago, but I later discovered that some of my accounts had been closed and sent to collections. Because of that, I now have to pay the balances down to zero to bring the accounts back into good standing.
These include essential utilities such as electricity, water, and gas. At this point, I have not yet signed a lease, and my move-in will depend on when the unit becomes available and when I am able to resolve the remaining utility balances.
Past due electric bill $750
Past due gas bill $450
Past due water bill $100
( Apartment base )
And I have a job opportunity waiting for me that I don't know when i will be able to start as of right now
I still need to pay and your contributions will greatly help me work through this to relocate me out of the nursing home environment
Honor your mom what I describe next are some of my last real moments with my mom
January 8th night time at the hospital example
In my mom's final hours example
We spoke briefly in this moment before I proceeded to go. Down to the hospital lobby I made sure she was okay before I proceeded to step away.
Example image speaking to her nurse in the hall outside of her door
I stepped outside of her room to let her nurse know I was stepping out. To take my cousin his glasses and get some air and a little alone time because it was hard to hear her aching in pain and see her suffer the way she suffered. It became a point we had to feed her because they were threatening to put a feeding tube inside of her if she didn't start improving. So she told me she would begin her rounds shortly and she would check in on her giving me her reassurance she would be okay.
I come back upstairs to a scene like this example
I walk past her room initially before being directed back the way that I came from because of the way the hallway setup was and the rooms it confused me.
As I am walking back it began to look familiar and it hit me I was going the right direction. The same light reflection you see coming from out of the room in the example image of her room. As I walk quietly towards the hospital room, the bright light spilling out into the hallway, illuminating my concerned expression as I wonder about my mom inside. The fluorescent lights above seem to hum in sync with your footsteps, echoing the anxiety that's building up inside of me. As i take a deep breath, trying to prepare myself for what's to come, my eyes fixed on the area with a mix of worry and hope. For my mom inside as I get closer to the door entrance
This is the scene inside example imagine
As I look on in the red shirt watching hospital medics trying to revive my mom calling her name Tyra! Tyra! Tyra! In panic tools on the ground I was watching her enter respiratory distress meaning she lost brain activity her vitals completely failed they got her vitals going temporarily long enough to take her to ICU where she would ultimately die the following morning January 9th 2024
I checked myself into the emergency room after we wheeled her to ICU from her room I went with the hospital personnel I checked myself into the emergency room I wasn't feeling well I waited hours for a room on the other side of the same hospital about time I get to a room I go in the back close my eyes briefly then opened them back up to look at my social media and I seen a post about that said my mom died so that is how I found out she died on the other side
In then minutes later the family that was there on the other side with her a few of them walked over to tell me the news that she was gone, but they where unaware that I had already found out on the Internet. I was wheeled over there in a wheelchair to say goodbye I eventually couldn't stand long I was weak I went over in a wheelchair I don't know how to deal with it still
Example image of our bond
We we're very close especially towards the end. We went out to eat we shared the same hobbies the same favorite food she was my best friend. I have a great deal of respect for my elders and I wanted to be her caregiver and I was I didn't care how time consuming it was or it would have been going forward I didn't care about myself or anything I was going through I put that to the side for my mother. It was a snow snow storm when I left my situation to be with my mom she cried for me I had to go help her although I was in pain dealing with homelessness spinal fractures and a brain tumor that had my brain dispositioned in my skull, but I didn't complain about it I didn't mention it my focus was my mom until she seen me in pain and told me she wish she had enough strength to help me I did all that I could do to help my mom before her death I blame myself for not knowing sooner for personal reasons she was my main line of support
I have struggled with mental health depression & failed suicide attempts I do take antidepressants, but I am fighting back to one day get off of them this is my truth and I just wanna heal and be giving hope to move forward and be given a fresh start
Nursing home institutionalized
I have been through several nursing home facilities dealing with sickness, and I didn't get the necessary assistance in any of these facilities that I desperately needed to save my livelihood from declining so badly
My residential rights were violated I was verbally abused and neglected my vulnerability was being exploited and my overall situation sadly taken advantage of by people in position of power in the medical field industry. Below I will discuss my general experience with social injustices and an experience that still currently lingers
Nursing home injustices
I have several witness statements from elders that currently live in the same facility.
That are residents that had their mail opened as well as their own payee and no authorized representative rights Given.
That says to the care of on their mail so it is a pattern of unlawful activity as someone who's experienced the harsh realities of nursing home life, I'm speaking out to raise awareness about the importance of dignity and respect for our elders.
My own struggles with exploitation, neglect, and misconduct have fueled my passion to create change and support others who may be going through similar challenges.
I have been living inside of a skilled nursing facility for nearly two years. Where I had my second brain surgery
Months after my mom's passing in 2024 initially I was greeted with love and acceptance there was a lot of compassion for me.
And I needed that I had just lost my mom and I just battled the biggest challenge of my life I went to the hospital in the aftermath.
Where I stayed for a while the hospital doctors would not discharge me so it was a difficult challenge.
For me because I had a golf ball size brain tumor that positioned my brain to the right side of my skull and my symptoms were pretty bad.
So they told me that if I had decided to go back outside anyway it would be against the orders of doctors.
And that the state would be able to appoint me a legal guardian to make decisions for me so I didn't want to do that I picked a nursing facility.
I chose one to go to have my surgery and heal, under supervision, in then I backed out because I didn't want to deal with anymore nursing homes.
I had been in and out of many facilities throughout the years at that point
I was over it at that point, but then I changed my mind when I knew what I could potentially have to deal with if I didn't go. *Life or death*
So my experience was fine initially I was dealing with a lot of emotional distress and trauma from my mother's death I had severe depression brain fog.
I was really going through a tough time I didn't have nothing essentially at that point no income no stability I wanted to hold off on signing important papers giving the facility permission to take over my social security benefits.
That I essentially wasn't getting anyway at that point, and I wasn't getting benefits because my benefits were in suspension.
And I was also thinking how can y'all collect money from something for an unpaid liability debt when my benefits aren't even active?
And there were plans on the table for me to leave and relocate to a different state and I didn't wanna go through the hassle of getting my benefits back.
Started that would have been more time consuming when I wanted to simply get my business handled and go straight to the airport.
From the nursing home facility and people in management agreed that I was to young to continue on being in a nursing home environment.
So plans kept falling a part and I kept inappropriately being approached by the business office for my signature on Important federal documents.
And I declined several times which led to frustration and one day I signed a benefit verification form which only implies the type of benefits I am getting and how much I am getting.
And the status of the benefits so it came back that I was in suspension it didn't say why or even the amount of benefits because that just wouldn't disclose that type of information that is a proving fact this is the liability amount that they are still saying that I owe right now to the facility not social security
Turn the phone to see picture
My argument was how are you going to tell me that I owe a facility liability all of this money while my rights are being violated?
And from my observations y'all are breaking the law y'all even opened my mail without my consent without authorized representative rights or payee rights.
Because when you go into a skilled nursing facility under ohio Medicaid you must pay a portion of your stay.
So basically you must cover whatever your insurance don't cover and you can only get $50 out of whatever kind of income your using, which in my case is federal social security benefits, but I called ohio medicaid and confirmed,
They don't automatically grant nursing care facilities authorization to a patients social security benefits without the patients consent.
So they would need my signature which they wasn't really able to initially get until I finally gave my signature after being pressured against my will.
My signature and other personal information, I eventually caught onto it I was dealing with a trauma brain fog and healing from my second brain surgery and it was even said to me from the front business office.
That they are allowed to go through their facility doctor to declare me cognitively incompetent for the sole purpose of my residency.
And I did my research and I found that's not true and that it's a whole process that wouldn't be that simple.
And you would need to go through a court in front of a judge and you would need to do fair evaluation.
Assessments by a professional doctor that specializes in that, who is not affiliated with the facility I found out that was a lie and if you don't stand for something.
You will fall for anything, and be vulnerable of getting taken advantage of so you must stay aware and vigilant at all times.
I thought my life was over at that point and the person that told me the information about my benefits being in suspension implied that I owed a debt as well.
Now mind you I explained that a benefit verification form do not imply a debt so that false information was exposed to the facility and I other members of management so that I feel was a defamation of my character.
And around that time it was my second mothers day without my mom and it was her second birthday so I'm in extreme distress and it exacerbated my hydrocephalus condition.
I ended up with several hospitalizations this nursing facility illegally had me detained on a pink slip in ohio beyond the 72 hour law.
After already being assessed by more qualified healthcare care professionals and them basically refusing to sign a pink slip because they didn't feel like i needed it, they used it to immediately discharge me from the nursing home the current one I am still in and to retaliate against me I'm trying to leave
This is me in a actual ambulance one night
I was in route to the emergency room I went to the psychiatric hospital voluntarily due to the emotional toll of Amy's misconduct. In 2025 Voluntary is when you agree to go and involuntarily is when you have to go
I just had hard times and I don't wish that on anybody I stand on principle it is about what is right I have been through a lot and I just wanna heal and impact my community.
Motivate and inspire and honestly it wasn't all bad at the facility, there was good too i would definitely say it's a very clean place I never had any issues with them not keeping the place clean,
And they served good food from time depending on who was the cook and I even had a big issue with the kitchen staff.
I was brought a dinner tray with a dirty wound care band aid on it that looked used and infected that was a big thing.
And I had some expensive pair of headphones gifted to me about $225 headphones stolen when I went to have my second brain surgery.
Not to mention my clothes never coming back from the laundry despite putting my name on them.
It is a constant issue, I have been advocating more and speaking up not only for myself, but for the elderly people around me nursing home reform is a very serious topic.
That isn't discussed enough in America I believe there are definitely areas of improvement I have been a young person in and out of this environment dealing with my health issues,
But there are a lot of things that happened behind closed doors that isn't discussed enough in the public eye that needs light shed to it.
Because you never know who is facing a similar challenge as myself and can't find the courage to speak up a lot of elderly people come to this environment to spend there last days I have witnessed death in every facility.
That I was a resident in even roommates dying on me in 2023 I found my friend ice cold dead in her nursing home room.
In then in 2024 I found my mom dead, my mom was pretty much gone, before she even got onto the ventilator by the look of her body language and the ICU doctor told me.
My mom was extremely sick and that it would have taken a lot for her to comeback from that so that's definitely tough, in that situation I got to be the visitor in a ICU unit instead of the patient.
And it is very different the feeling is different for sure so I have been extremely traumatized in then the administrator on audio admitted to opening my mail without my consent without payee or authorized.
Representative rights on September 3rd 2025 3:30 pm they said that it was a common thing before the mail go out onto the floor he opens every resident mail in case they may need help paying a bill,
the administrator of the facility admitted he opened the mail, in then he said it was by mistake, because the way I discovered the mail.
Was on the floor in my room I immediately noticed on the ground I knew right away I never seen it so i questioned it.
And prior to that the administrator had me sign something June 16th 2026 stating how long I had been a resident at the facility. 10 to 15 minutes later I withdraw my signature and the administrator copied it before giving it back
And it had the start date to the current date at that time start date March 2024 to June 16th 2025 I was blind sided by that in my room I signed the form in then I withdrew my signature after signing it because I didn't understand why my signature was needed for that when they had other ways they could have verified my residency.
And I ultimately was correct because I ended up getting that same paper back from a member of corporate in a meeting, September 16th 2025, but I withdrew my signature from that form.
According to the ohio nursing home bill of rights I had the right to withdraw my signature from my file and my rights may have been violated.
They told me my rights mattered and that was something I could very well do at my discretion they ran the form through a copy machine before they gave it back to me.
I have two of the same form so it's definitely very unfortunate and sad situation and on the altered document it look like a business stamp was used with the name of the business on their I wouldn't be able to access that particular business stamp with the name of the place either that was a stamp or it was taken through a machine or something you have to be careful I'm fighting for my life and I just think it's very sad that people will scoop low no matter how low they have to go to hurt you I just believe when you decide profit over people when you are running a business nothing good happens from it
I have been through so much in general I lost my high school diploma my cap & gown a lot of my valuable school awards my national honor society gold stash I just have a picture of it now
I achieved this for good grades in high school I graduated with a 3.56 gpa at the top of my class in June 2014 I maintained a 4.0 gpa my entire sophomore and junior year high school I did not fall below a 3.0 gpa I was skipped up from the 8th grade to the 9th grade in the same school year during the start of the school year life comes at you fast my mom was at the ceremony when I was inducted It was very nice honor your mom hug her and tell her you love her I bond with my mom until the end we brought in 2024 together and I left the year without her bringing in 2025 alone
I'm not at peace and I'm so far away from where I want to be with a lot of potential and a lot to still offer to the world I just want another chance to do it
Contact me with any questions please
I have proof of my allegations everything documented I have to be careful about what I show publicly
My medical from legit MyChart site
