My name is Thomas Tenney. Myself and my family are literally in a life or death situation.

I’ve spent over 30 years working in comics, drawing for Marvel, DC, Image, and others as well as in the music field. I’ve told stories about heroes surviving impossible odds.

Now we are facing the most dire circumstances any person, any family can face.

I live with advanced COPD — a progressive, incurable lung disease. COPD slowly destroys your ability to breathe. Every breath becomes work. Your lungs cannot properly move oxygen into your body. There is no cure. There is no reversing it. It only gets worse.

Simple things — walking across a room, standing up, even sleeping — can leave me gasping for air. Infections, cold weather, stress, or lack of proper rest can be deadly. Living without stable shelter is not dangerous for me — it is a death sentence.

I live with my significant other, who is diabetic, and our daughter, who is autistic. Both depend on consistency, medical care, and stability to survive and function. Our daughter needs routine and safety. Chaos and displacement are traumatic for her in ways most people never have to think about.

The cost of medications, medical care, rent, utilities, and basic survival has taken everything we had. Every dollar. There is no cushion left. No savings. No fallback plan.

Now we are losing the home we were renting and we will be homeless.

There is no exaggeration here. No drama. This is the reality we are facing right now.

Living in a car with advanced COPD is not survivable. Extreme temperatures, lack of oxygen support, inability to rest, exposure to illness — any one of these could kill me. Together, they almost certainly will.

I am not asking for comfort.

I am asking for help to stay alive.

We have nowhere to go, no one to turn to.

After an exhausted effort, we've found no assistance available for us.

We are desperately trying to raise enough money to secure somewhere safe to live — somewhere with heat, electricity, and stability — so that I can continue treatment, my partner can manage her diabetes, and our daughter is not forced into trauma she cannot process.

Every dollar raised will go toward:

Securing immediate housing so we are not homeless

Life-sustaining medications and medical care

Basic survival needs — food, utilities, transportation

Keeping our family together and alive

I wish I didn’t have to write this. I wish pride or strength mattered more than survival. But we are out of time, and we cannot do this alone.

If you can donate — anything — you are helping keep a roof over our heads and air in my lungs.

If you cannot donate, please share this. Visibility could save my life.

Thank you for reading. Thank you for caring. And thank you for giving us a chance to survive this.

— Thomas