
Help Hannah & Kelley Escape Crushing Debt
Um. Hi. My name is Hannah. I am a queer, disabled nonbinary person. I suffer from multiple mental health conditions, including OCD, AuDHD and CPTSD, as well as Fibro. I am an author of dark fantasy/horror/romance books.
The other person in the picture with me is my wife, Kelley. She has multiple physical and mental health conditions. We have been married for almost 20 years and she is my everything.
To make a long story short, because of various events in our lives and in the world itself, we are around 60k in debt. We pay around 3-4k a month just to cover those debts. My wife works from the time she gets up until the time she goes to bed, 7 days a week. We barely make ends meet and are quickly drowning. The only reason we have a roof over our head right now is because a friend is letting us stay in one of her properties rent free whilst she gets it ready to sell. Once it sells? I have no idea, because we can't afford rent.
To answer questions I've already received:
- yes, our debts are consolidated.
- no, I will not file for bankruptcy, as every rental here requires good credit and bankruptcy ruins your credit, so we'd still just wind up homeless. might as well just keep doing the same as we've been doing.
I don't honestly have any real hope for this GFM, but people suggested I give it a shot and I'm desperate. A lot of my conditions are made worse by stress, which you can imagine is enormous in our situation. I am tired of watching my wife slowly kill herself by working so much. I am terrified of what will happen when this house sells. I am terrified of what will happen if they cut disability/Medicare/Medicaid like they're trying to. I'm just terrified in general and so, so very tired.
I understand that times are tough for everyone right now and that everyone else is scared for their own reasons. But if you can spare anything to help us, even just a share, it would mean the world to me. We are good people in a bad situation that we can't get out of without some help. This is me asking for that help. It isn't easy and it isn't fun. I hate being in this position.
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Jennifer Sears
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Fortuna, CA