I am trying to raise enough money to pay out a pocket for an MRI scan so I can find out why I am perpetually in pain in my lower back and hip and leg since Easter.

Let me tell you what my life has been like: I don't sleep through the night because I can't get comfortable or relax or I am simply hurting. the pain is like a dying star in my left. Hip, the pain rockets down the outside of my left leg. So much that my outer three toes on my foot are perpetually numb. I had been afraid to walk down the stairs into the basement to do laundry even with a cane to support me so until two days ago I had been washing my clothes by hand. i spend my four hour days at work trying not to cry or sweat or pass out from either the pain or the exhaustion. walking with a cane has been an absolute chore. Sometimes I feel steady, and sometimes I feel like i'm going to lose my balance but I'm also worried about needing rotator cuff surgery in a few years and ending up with one popeye arm. I am afraid to fall in the bathtub and showering has been a nightmare because I have to sit on a plastic stool and rinse myself off with a shower wand like I am getting ready to go into a Japanese onsen. I can't risk a fall. I am worried if this goes on long enough without a diagnosis that I may start to lose control of my bladder.

This isn't some minor inconvenience. I have not slept through the night since the beginning of the month. Every night as I lay down, I pray for more than three hours of sleep at a time before I wake up in shrieking pain.

I am praying your heart can be moved to help me get some sleep for a change, that isn't exhaustion induced or by medication.

The MRI is the first step into bringing me relief.

I am currently only working 4.0 hours per day some my income is cut on half and I don't have insurance so You Help will Help.