Disabled single mother desperately needs help
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Hello, if you’re taking the time to read this i truly appreciate you for not just your time, but also your support— whether you are able to donate or not even just listening and being able to share me and my mom’s story is a great help to us! I have started this GFM after much time & consideration because at this point we truly cannot do this alone.
My mom is an especially prideful woman and has been all her life, the last thing she wants to do is to rely on anyone for help but, we have no other options. We desperately need the help of other compassionate, sympathetic individuals to get us through this time in our life, we’ve never been hit with so much all at once and as a 22 year old ive never see it have such a direct impact on my mother and her health, i am scared every minute of every day that the stress of overdue bills & unfortunate situations will end up killing my mother. For starters, my mother is 59 years old, she worked diligently for 26 years of her life as a health care worker in respiratory therapy and home health aid, taking care of many people. Later on in life, due to a multitude of health issues and diagnoses (The main one being Sarcoidosis - an autoimmune disease in which the body attacks itself) she was deemed permanently disabled and unable to work. Since then its just been me & my mom. Everyone in my personal life knows that my mom is my best friend, and my biggest role model. Ive never met a stronger woman. For most of my life i never even saw my mom crying in front of me but lately, she has been breaking down. Its not like her so i know this is taking a huge toll on her. Me and my mom are 2 peas in a pod, even at 22, you usually wont see her without me standing close by. Since ive gotten older & my moms health has gotten worse ive been her main caregiver for many years. Nothing is more important to me than my mama. Im at every doctors appointment & every procedure, and the impact of all the stress has been confirmed to us by many doctors. Most recently she was diagnosed with stage 3 kidney disease, and the main thing the doctors keep telling us is to manage her stress. Keep her blood pressure down. But with everything going on right now thats a nearly impossible task. Me and my mom have always relied on eachother to keep eachother afloat, and we’ve done a pretty great job up until now..
My mom’s disability check is her only form of income. It is not a liveable form of income, it only brings in $100 more than the amount of our rent for the month. Every month we are fighting to make ends meet as far as other bills like utilities, car insurance, car note. Every month we have to figure out how to make the little bit of income we bring in stretch to cover all of our bills, between the 2 of us. Mind you, after paying rent, the $100 my mom has left always goes to another bill, if its not ate up by the cost of an overdraft bank charge from another bill. Most months, we have to figure out if we’re even able to afford a pack of toilet paper for the house. I am 22 years old and currently work a full time retail job, and am constantly looking for other higher paying jobs or a 2nd job to pick up to bring in extra income, but at the moment, my job has cut my hours down from almost 40 a week, to me being lucky if i even get 10 hours a week. This has drastically effected us & our income. I can no longer afford to bring in any extra, as i have been doing to keep us afloat. My last paycheck was just $200, which i gave all to my mom to help with the bills for the house. It didn’t help. As i stated before most of the time we’re trying to play catch up, we’re almost never caught up on bills, always paying just enough to get by, which means we always fall behind. And this month, we’ve really really fallen behind. This month we are petrified. This month, my mom’s bank account is almost $500 negative, meaning next month we wont have enough money for rent. This month, our car payment is $901 (more than double our original payment) due to it being behind from last months payment. Initially, there was an agreement between my mom and someone in our family to pay half the amount of the car note until it is fully paid off and recently this person has went back on this offer, after 2 years of consistently helping us to pay it, leaving us in fear of the car getting repossessed & desperate for help. Our car insurance has also lapsed due to failure to pay, as we’ve had to stretch our small amount of income to try and pay off whatever bills have been thrown at us.
The reason i have made our goal the amount it is, is because me and my mom also have hopes of moving out into a better place, as where we are staying at now is also having a tremendous impact on both our mental and physical health. Not only are we not able to afford the cost of rent anymore, the quality of the apartment has gone down (while the rent price has gone up..) exponentially in the past 8 years we’ve been here. The past 2 months we’ve had to deal with new neighbors bringing in a roach infestation, trash piling up around the complex, black mold, plumbing backing up, and just recently— our apartment flooding!
I must keep reminding you all my mom is immunocompromised and physically cannot handle as many issues as we have been dealing with lately on top of the stress of bills. I know the main source of stress is money; or our lack thereof. My mom is not the type of woman to rely on anyone for help, and is so used to fighting fires by herself but this, is a forest fire we just are unable to put out on our own. We need help. Badly. I am so scared. Im scared of losing our car, scared of losing a place to stay but most of all im scared of losing my mother due to all this stress. I dont know what we’re going to do, and i dont know how much more stress my mom can take. My mom is sick. very sick. and shes almost 60 years old. As her daughter, all i want is to be able for her to relax instead of being in a constant state of anxiety or stress, but how is that possible with the weight of the world on her shoulders? I would do almost anything if it means she can finally be at peace the way she deserves.
If you read this far i truly appreciate you more than you know, for hearing us out and listening to our story, regardless of if you’re able to donate or not, you contributed something just by hearing us out. If you are able to donate please know that anything helps, whether its $1 or $100, you didnt have to give us any of it and we appreciate the fact that you did. Thank you for your humanity, and thank you for listening to me and my mom’s story. ❤️
My mom is an especially prideful woman and has been all her life, the last thing she wants to do is to rely on anyone for help but, we have no other options. We desperately need the help of other compassionate, sympathetic individuals to get us through this time in our life, we’ve never been hit with so much all at once and as a 22 year old ive never see it have such a direct impact on my mother and her health, i am scared every minute of every day that the stress of overdue bills & unfortunate situations will end up killing my mother. For starters, my mother is 59 years old, she worked diligently for 26 years of her life as a health care worker in respiratory therapy and home health aid, taking care of many people. Later on in life, due to a multitude of health issues and diagnoses (The main one being Sarcoidosis - an autoimmune disease in which the body attacks itself) she was deemed permanently disabled and unable to work. Since then its just been me & my mom. Everyone in my personal life knows that my mom is my best friend, and my biggest role model. Ive never met a stronger woman. For most of my life i never even saw my mom crying in front of me but lately, she has been breaking down. Its not like her so i know this is taking a huge toll on her. Me and my mom are 2 peas in a pod, even at 22, you usually wont see her without me standing close by. Since ive gotten older & my moms health has gotten worse ive been her main caregiver for many years. Nothing is more important to me than my mama. Im at every doctors appointment & every procedure, and the impact of all the stress has been confirmed to us by many doctors. Most recently she was diagnosed with stage 3 kidney disease, and the main thing the doctors keep telling us is to manage her stress. Keep her blood pressure down. But with everything going on right now thats a nearly impossible task. Me and my mom have always relied on eachother to keep eachother afloat, and we’ve done a pretty great job up until now..
My mom’s disability check is her only form of income. It is not a liveable form of income, it only brings in $100 more than the amount of our rent for the month. Every month we are fighting to make ends meet as far as other bills like utilities, car insurance, car note. Every month we have to figure out how to make the little bit of income we bring in stretch to cover all of our bills, between the 2 of us. Mind you, after paying rent, the $100 my mom has left always goes to another bill, if its not ate up by the cost of an overdraft bank charge from another bill. Most months, we have to figure out if we’re even able to afford a pack of toilet paper for the house. I am 22 years old and currently work a full time retail job, and am constantly looking for other higher paying jobs or a 2nd job to pick up to bring in extra income, but at the moment, my job has cut my hours down from almost 40 a week, to me being lucky if i even get 10 hours a week. This has drastically effected us & our income. I can no longer afford to bring in any extra, as i have been doing to keep us afloat. My last paycheck was just $200, which i gave all to my mom to help with the bills for the house. It didn’t help. As i stated before most of the time we’re trying to play catch up, we’re almost never caught up on bills, always paying just enough to get by, which means we always fall behind. And this month, we’ve really really fallen behind. This month we are petrified. This month, my mom’s bank account is almost $500 negative, meaning next month we wont have enough money for rent. This month, our car payment is $901 (more than double our original payment) due to it being behind from last months payment. Initially, there was an agreement between my mom and someone in our family to pay half the amount of the car note until it is fully paid off and recently this person has went back on this offer, after 2 years of consistently helping us to pay it, leaving us in fear of the car getting repossessed & desperate for help. Our car insurance has also lapsed due to failure to pay, as we’ve had to stretch our small amount of income to try and pay off whatever bills have been thrown at us.
The reason i have made our goal the amount it is, is because me and my mom also have hopes of moving out into a better place, as where we are staying at now is also having a tremendous impact on both our mental and physical health. Not only are we not able to afford the cost of rent anymore, the quality of the apartment has gone down (while the rent price has gone up..) exponentially in the past 8 years we’ve been here. The past 2 months we’ve had to deal with new neighbors bringing in a roach infestation, trash piling up around the complex, black mold, plumbing backing up, and just recently— our apartment flooding!
I must keep reminding you all my mom is immunocompromised and physically cannot handle as many issues as we have been dealing with lately on top of the stress of bills. I know the main source of stress is money; or our lack thereof. My mom is not the type of woman to rely on anyone for help, and is so used to fighting fires by herself but this, is a forest fire we just are unable to put out on our own. We need help. Badly. I am so scared. Im scared of losing our car, scared of losing a place to stay but most of all im scared of losing my mother due to all this stress. I dont know what we’re going to do, and i dont know how much more stress my mom can take. My mom is sick. very sick. and shes almost 60 years old. As her daughter, all i want is to be able for her to relax instead of being in a constant state of anxiety or stress, but how is that possible with the weight of the world on her shoulders? I would do almost anything if it means she can finally be at peace the way she deserves. If you read this far i truly appreciate you more than you know, for hearing us out and listening to our story, regardless of if you’re able to donate or not, you contributed something just by hearing us out. If you are able to donate please know that anything helps, whether its $1 or $100, you didnt have to give us any of it and we appreciate the fact that you did. Thank you for your humanity, and thank you for listening to me and my mom’s story. ❤️
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Zion Daniels
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Jacksonville, FL