Im Meg. I’m 44 years old. I have a chronic heart condition, viral cardiomyopathy. I was diagnosed with CHF in April 2019. I had another round of active heart failure in July 2021 after Covid. In June 2025, I went into cardiac arrest and was not breathing and had no heartbeat for 15 minutes. I was shocked 3 times to be revived. The house I’ve been living in for 20 years is technically my mother’s. It was just my son and me living there. After my heart issues and when Kate (my bestest friend) died and Covid and depression and agoraphobia… my mom had been helping me with money.

Turns out that she lied to me about my credit history, actively kept me from creating my own adult life so my always needing her help was by her design.

Anyway, this past June I died. I went into cardiac arrest and was not alive for 15 minutes. Completely stress-related. I now have a defibrillator implanted in my chest.

Since then, there’s been a fallout with my next-door neighbor and me, regarding my son. I started staying at my friend's house a couple of nights a week just so I didn’t fall back into depression. My mother decided to change the locks on the doors to my house, steal my cats, my 19-year-old son, and took everything that belonged to me. I was threatened by my sister if I took legal action against my mom. Then Monday, my mom turned off my cell phone… my whole family has been on her plan for over 20 years and she took my phone number. So now I have no lifeline. I can’t sign into accounts, change passwords, talk to doctors…

She’s also telling people that I’m an addict and need mental health inpatient help. And NONE of that is true! Like, at all! I feel like I’m in a twilight zone.

I am fundraising to regain my independence and rebuild my life after these traumatic events.

The funds will be used to secure a new place to live, replace my stolen belongings, and get a new phone so I can reconnect with my doctors and essential services.