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Epilepsy has made me homeless

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Hello, my name is Maria Perez and I started suffering from seizures last year. I suffer from tonic clonic seizures (grand mal seizures) and was diagnosed with epilepsy last year. My life has completely gone upside down. I have two little boys Sebastián who just turned 5 and Jeremiah who is 2. My seizure activity has gotten worse since last year. In February I was in status epilepticus and almost lost my life,  on July 9th of this year I was coming home from work with my two boys and had a seizure in front of my home and continued to have seizures in the hospital. I had a total of 8 seizures back to back that day. I fell down my concrete steps and hurt myself pretty bad. I was hospitalized again and when I was released I was not cleared to work. I have worked my whole life and have taken care of my boys financially. I am now homeless because of this with my boys. I am currently staying at a hotel, I had to take everything I could from my home, I have lost all my belongings and most of my boys belongings that I worked very hard for. My funds are running really low and I have called everywhere to try to get help, I have also called all the shelters, the low income housing places in my area and there is waiting list for them all. I am literally in the street for no fault of my own. I have lost everything due to this, I was not prepared not to work. I lost my home because I was not able to pay my rent because I have no income. I have applied for SSI and of course I have to wait. Everything is a waiting process and I do not have the time to wait. I do not have help from anyone as I was in foster care. I have no one, just me and my boys. I always worked for us and took care of it all. This disease has taken over my life and it has affected everything. I am just asking for help for me and my boys to get by until I at least get some type of help for us. I never expected to create a go fund me account but I do not know what else to do and the county assistance office in my area is taking forever with my case as well. Anything would be greatly appreciated!!!!! Thank you for even reading my story!!!! - Maria Perez
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    Wilkes-Barre, PA

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