Hey friends.

My name is Sheri. I’m the mom to two beautiful girls. One is 4 and the other is 16.

These girls mean the world to me. I know that when I go through stuff, they go through it right along with me. I hate that part worse than anything! To not be able to give my babies the world… hurts, but to not be able to help them have things that others around them have hurts deep. My 16 year old wants a job but no way there and back bc I can’t afford to fix my car much less buy her one too. I am hoping and praying that I can get ahead so I can give them the childhood they deserve. They don’t ask for anything but I feel like I owe them more as their mom…. I know some won’t understand that but it’s how I feel. Right now it’s not even about that even though that hurts, right now it’s about getting the family car fixed and getting their mama fixed so I don’t break completely down. Being a single mama on a paycheck to paycheck budget is hard.

I was not gonna do a gofundme but friends have told me I should.

my story is below. This is the post I shared on my Facebook recently. Please feel free to read.

I know I haven’t said much on Facebook lately. I’ve been less “talkative” than normal. There’s a reason.

Some of you already know but I’ll go ahead and share it here now.

Over a month ago, I went to the skin dr. I have been concerned about my skin for years now but never to the point I had gotten to. I’ve hated the way my face looked for a long time. Nothing I did made it better. When I say better I mean… nothing I did made it look better. (I got severely sunburned back in 2017 and it really took a toll on my face and made ugly “brown spots”) I made an appt the first part of June and talked to the Dr about it and we talked about a new face cleansing routine…

While I was at the dr, I was talking to her about the “itching” I’ve been having in one particular spot on my back. She took a look and right above where I had been itching on my back was three spots. One of them didn’t look right so she told me she didn’t like how it looked and asked if we could biopsy it. Mmm “why” I asked?? She said “well if it is something, we need to know.”

At this point, yes…. Do it. I don’t need anything to come of it.

Fast forward to the following week. She called me with the results. She said it came back “pre cancerous”.

I asked her what the next step would be and she said that she needed to refer me to a special skin surgeon to have the bigger spot removed to make sure that what they are seeing is really there. She sent my information off to the specialist Dr and over a week later I got a call to set up the appointment. The nurse said ok let’s get all your info and get it into the computer…. Ok… done. She said ok we will see you July 16th at 1pm to remove it, but be sure and bring $1000 to your appointment!!!! WHAT???? WHY??? I don’t have that kind of money floating around. At this point I know she probably thought I was a psycho. I just started crying bc I just knew I couldn’t do it. I said ok just cancel my appointment and she said ok I’ll do it and send the referral back to your dr so u can see what else u can do. I hung up the phone and lost it. I mean… why do I pay insurance???

The next day I called my Dr back and she referred me to a general surgeon in my hometown. They finally called me the end of last week and set up my appointment to come in for my consult where he will decide what to do next.

In the meantime a few weeks ago, my AC in my car went out. It’s too hot for that especially with an “itchy back”!! I went to get a quote on that to be fixed and was quoted almost $2000 for that!!!

Even tried trading it in to get somethung with the same payment or less but with AC…. Nope couldnt do that either!

Dont make any sense bc i was willing to buy a car 1/2 the proce of the one im in now but the payment was honna be fouble what mine is now…. Mmmm no ty!

With all that being said…. If u see me looking lost these days, I am. I’m on the struggle bus.

Mom has been very generous to let me borrow her car to go back and forth to work but she needs her car back so she’s not burning up running her own errands.

Thank y’all for reading this far. Y’all are the real MVP’s.

All prayers are appreciated for what to do next!

Thanks in advance.