Recently my family has been set back financially due to multiple hospital stays with my oldest son. Both of my kids have Severe Hemophilia Type A, and due to many insurance complications, both of them have been without their prophylactic treatment. My eldest son has been greatly affected by this. He’s had multiple joint bleeds in his hips/ ankles, which has resulted in 5 seperate hospital stays as of today. I’ve had to take a lot of time off of work to stay with him at the hospital each time he’s been admitted. Missing work has set us behind financially, we are behind on most of our bills, our rent is late this month, we have taken out loans, deliver with apps like DoorDash and Uber in the evenings/weekends, go to the food pantry twice a month, and borrowed money from family just to get by, but its never enough to get fully caught up. It feels like we’re constantly treading water and never getting anywhere. Mentally I’m exhausted. My depression and anxiety has only gotten worse, and it’s so hard to take care of myself when I feel like we’re barely surviving. I have put off asking for help outside of my small circle because it feels really humiliating, but it’s gotten to a point where I feel like I have no choice but to ask if we’re ever going to get out of this financial hell that the last few months has put us through. Donations of any kind would be so greatly appreciated by our family. We’d start by catching up on our bills and rent(we’re behind on rent, our car, our electric, our loan payments, and probably some other stuff that I can’t remember at the moment), paying off the loans we took out, and then buying any essentials we’ve been putting off.

Im really embarrassed to have to ask for help, but my kids mean more to me than my pride, and I feel like we’re out of options. Thank you to anyone who feels inclined to donate, it is really really appreciated. We’ve had a rough last year, everything I wrote above isn’t even the half of it, but just know I am incredibly grateful to anyone who shares, donates, or even just sends a nice message, really anything helps and means the world to us