Hello everyone, I feel guilt for even making a go fund me after so many people rallied together and helped us during our daughters brain surgery and health complications but I’m at a complete loss here on how to get through this without asking for help. Our family has a small but growing business offering balloon decor & customized wood backdrops throughout Sanger & the Central Valley. Unfortunately on Saturday Nov. 2nd our family vehicle was stolen from our apartment complex within 10 mins of me arriving home from an event I had just picked up from (all of our business items were inside the van still). We were able to get the vehicle out of the tow yard for $469 this afternoon (Nov. 4th) not only was their damage to our van but theft to almost all of our business belongings that were inside. We are now experiencing out of pocket expenses we didn’t expect and are struggling to recoup the losses within our business and still maintain our household obligations and Our daughter is back on chemotherapy and has been going through several appointments each month out of town, she has a hospital stay at Stanford this week where the $$ towards our hotel stay has now been used to cover our expense of getting the vehicle out of the tow yard + fixing some of the damages to hopefully make it drive properly. We’re struggling, I don’t know how else to put it. They took our brand new wood backdrop that my husband just built me the week prior, our 2 heavy duty extendable backdrop stands, our sand bags, all of my business cards but 8 of them. They tagged the inside of our van with sharpie, chewed all our gum and spit it throughout our van, broke the steering column & ignition switch , back windshield wiper snapped off, driver side door lock cylinder & handle are broken, and they scuffed up our paint.. I don’t know how we’re not supposed to feel like we’re suffocating, I know everyone is struggling and raising a family in this economy is not easy.. honestly I truly do understand if you can’t donate if you can just share please and get our story out there. Videos of the theft to our van are posted on my personal page. If you made it this far thank you so much. This feels so personal and like they knew what they were doing by taking from us. I’m so sad and wouldn’t wish this violating feeling on anyone.