Just need a Helping Hand

I am currently in the process of applying for Social Security Supplemental Income. I applied in 2020. I

have 5 serious chronic medical conditions that have kept me from being able to work. I found out in

2017 during a hospitalization that I had IgA Deficiency,a condition I was born with that makes me very

susceptible to illness and infection. I lack a protein that normal healthy people have that guards against

communicable diseases and infections.I have Thrombocytopenia, a rare blood disorder that causes my

body to destroy my platelets. I have Iron Deficiency Anemia, Cirrhosis (liver disease and scarring from a

hepatitis infection I had for many years but was completely cured of in 2019. Having the infection for 17

yrs. without treatment severely damaged my liver and still causes havoc on my body and immune

system.) I also was recently diagnosed with Rheumatoid arthritis and Peripheral Neuropathy.I have high

blood pressure and Tachycardia, which makes my heart beat 100 bpm or more, sometimes up to 140

bpm just walking to the bathroom or tidying up. I go to the doctor quite often and over the years have

been hospitalized many times and endured many painful infusions, transfusions, treatments,

intubations, and close calls. I am on many different prescription medications but none of the conditions I

have, have a cure. They are all chronic and I will more than likely have them for the rest of my life.

Like I said, I filed for SSSI, in 2020. I have a lawyer but Social security is way far behind. My lawyer says I

have a solid claim or he wouldn’t have taken my case.

I wish I could work like everyone else and I carry a lot of guilt because I haven’t been able to because of

these conditions. And usually someone has family and friends to fall back on or ask for help if times get

tough. But I lost my entire family in about 4 yrs. I don’t think I’ve accepted the loss of my family because

I lost each one so quickly after the other, my brother, my grandmother, my father and nine months later

my mother. I have no one to ask for help, emotional support, moral support or financial support.

Just in the last few months of 2022, my car had been stolen. I I was blessed to get it back. But I’ve had

problems with it ever since. As of today, it’s not running. After the temperature dropped below freezing

in Houston a few weeks ago, I haven’t been able to start it. The head cracked because the fluids in the

cars system froze. The cracked head needs to be replaced or the engine needs to be replaced.

I try my best to take advantage of various state and government programs providing assistance for food

and my phone. I’m receiving financial assistance for my medical conditions that keep me from being

able to work. I’m trying my best to find some counseling to deal with the loss of my family but it’s

paralyzing and no way to live if I can’t come to terms with the loss and move forward.

I’m a good person and I promise with my heart and soul and with everything I am, if I had the means and

physical capability to support myself, at least until I finally get an answer from Social Security Disability, I

would. And I would also help others that might need it.

So please, if you can find it in your heart to help me, I would be so thankful.