My name is Melissa & I am in need of ANY help I can get at this point. I know that fundraisers are normally for important LIFE ALTERING/CHANGING events in people's lives.. but I am currently to the point where I have NO options but to ATTEMPT to ask for help. This IS NOT something that I have done before.. & honestly im not totally comfortable with it. But I am TRYING to take my own advice that I give to others by taking a blind leap of faith & putting aside my own personal PRIDE in order to create this fundraiser.

No.. my situation is NOT life Changing nor altering...& it is not on my "wish list" either. But the end result (if I can not financially afford this) will be Altering my Life in a pretty BIG way. I have a very long & not so bright past that I am MORE THAN WILLING at any given moment to tell to anyone interested.. & right now in this present moment I have continued on the road of SOBRIETY for going on 3 years. Because of this road I have recently started on.. I have gained things that I have either NEVER HAD before or have hardly had.. & 1 of those things is what I am hoping to be able to fix and get back.

It has been almost 24 years since I have had my own car & have not had to ask other people for help around or pay high prices for public transpo. And on Sunday after I got done with mother's day dinner...the 1 & only posession that I have been proud of having stopped working. It has currently been at th e shop getting fixed for going on 3 days. And what it is going to cost to get this fixed is pretty much EVERYTHING that I have saved up IF NOT all of it & more.

It is the gear shift that is misfiring.

To be able to have them replace that part is going to cost @ minnimum 2600.

Wich is why I have decided to put my pride aside and be verbal about needing help.

I can and will understand if this does not generate anything. Because I know EVERYONE is struggeling latley.

But if anyone can relate to this and understand the impact this is having and will continue to have on my life and financial standings.. I am praying that ANY KIND of help can be given.

I normally am the 1 helping others and giving down to my last dollar.. but now the tables have turned. Without my car I can't make it to my job.. wich means I wil lose that along with my home and end up back in the same dark place I fought to get out of.

Again.. there is no specific amount im asking for .... because honestly ANYTHING will help me at this point.

I appriciate all of you if you can or do donate or can't or do not donate. And im praying that YOU ALL HAVE A BLESSED DAY