
Please help a disabled veteran in fiancial crisis
My name is Little Brown. I'm a disabled veteran (DD214 available upon request as I'm fully aware of all the scams from "combat veterans" out there). I've never attempted anything like this before but "desperate times"...
I'll try not to ramble on about how desperate times really are in my household, but we are completely underwater at this point.
First, let me list the issues: A little over two years ago, my wife was severely injured at work, requiring surgery on her back. She's been turned down twice by social security disability (for reasons known only to them). I mean, to the best of my knowledge, you can't fake a back surgery. Anyway, this was shortly after I broke my jaw, also requiring surgery and a titanium plate. These two incidents would have been bad enough, but then my best friend died suddenly of a stroke. I guess bad things really do come in threes. After all of that, I was able to return to work and did so before I was even medically cleared. Needless to say, going from two incomes to one was a shock, but we've managed to hang on until just the last few months. We've done the very best we can, but it's just too much now. We're facing having our electric turned off, we have no food in the house, and our rent is already three weeks late. I don't know if people actually donate to these kinds of things or how to properly convey the urgency of this request, but I have to believe that even a shot in the dark sometimes hits the mark. Please, I've swallowed my pride and "put myself out there", please help my family through this extremely humbling, humiliating, and awkward ordeal. At this point we don't even have trash service. I don't need anyone to lift me out of this hole, I can climb; I just need a ladder. God bless us all.