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Help me get by until my disability is settled

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Hello, My name is Derek. I used to be, among things, a martial artist, a well-known fixture in the community I worked in. When I was younger, I was in a tournament for Tae Kwon Do, and received a life-altering injury to my back. In the following years, my condition worsened to the point it's in today, where I was diagnosed among other things, to have both Fibromyalgia and Chronic pain syndrome (CPS), causing me to experience agonizing pain 24/7. I used to be able to fight through it, having lived with the pain for nearly 25 years now, but it has recently become so overwhelming, that I can no longer cope with it without extreme amounts of rest. I've been attempting to put in a claim for disability, of which Fibromyalgia is a qualifying condition, but as I've found out, they will deny nearly every claim put forth, no matter how serious, or valid under their own conditions it is. I'm now left to hire a lawyer and fight this out in court, but in the meanwhile, my meager savings have entirely dried up, and I can't afford the non-food necessities to get by for however long that's going to take to resolve. Anything you could do to help would go a long way. Thank you for taking the time to read this. I'd love to be able to have a little bit of stress lifted from my shoulders, and if i can get enough saved back up, to be able to adopt a new rescue cat, it's been very lonely without one, it would go a long way to help with the anxiety this has all brought to bear on me. Thank you again.
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Derek Nadel
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Coatesville, PA

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