Our lives are falling apart. No where to turn.

It says to tell you who I am and why I'm fundraising.  The first part isn't something I've ever been good at, and the second one is a really long story, so I recommend you get comfortable.

Im a 40 year old husband to a disabled wife.  We don't have any children, but we have lots of pets as my wife doesn't deal with people, but needs them to keep herself sane. Her disabilities include aspergers, narcolepsy, insomnia, fibromyalgia, and another autoimmune issue we had been working to identify before this all began.

My job, again before this all started, was that of a traveling service tech.  Taking care of her was difficult, and I was already trying to find a new career path, and my company was transitioning me to programming, mostly from home, before the pandemic ever came around.

My company was struggling for a while and as an officer I was on half pay.  We lost our house and moved to a rental home, one that was fine with the pets.  Then the company went out of business all together.

Her disability and my unemployment kept us going, and I had some good prospects for a job.  I'd probably be traveling again, but she was mostly self sufficient.

Then the pandemic hit, and I had five job interviews canceled.  Unemployment went up, which helped, but wasn't going to last forever since I had started drawing from it before the pandemic.  I also brought COVID home to my wife in mid March.

I found a job, but we lost the rental house around July.  The landlord had a business that went under and needed to sell our house.  I started working in July, but had to move in September.  With my wife disabled I had to do it all alone, my second move in a year I did alone.

In November I got COVID again, and brought it to my wife again. This is where I finally got to the end of what I think, I could have recovered from, but I still put off asking for help.

My case of COVID lasted a long time, and my doctor sent me to urgent care for a chest xray.  They found an aneurysm and sent me to the hospital in an ambulance.  It is a descending aortic aneurysm, and I've had to make significant changes to my life to avoid a horrible surgery.  I'll be monitoring it all my life.

My wife's case took even longer to get over, in fact she still hasn't.  She was slowly getting better, but these last few weeks she's been going downhill fast.

Friday I brought her in to an appointment with her primary care provider, from there we went to the ER, then the hospital proper where we still are.

I've been with her as much as I can, but the pandemic has caused restrictions to visiting hours, and I need to go home regularly to take care of pets.

Before this, I was slowly falling further and further behind, unable to keep up with everything.  I'm doing well at my new job, and expected both a raise and an influx of overtime, either of which would have helped.   Now it will likely be too little too late.

Now I've got my medical bills, her medical bills, my missed time, and an unknown amount of in home equipment she'll need to stay mobile at all.

We need help, and I can't turn it down regardless of source, but if I see donations from friends who I know are also struggling, I will be a bit upset.  Please help if you can, but only if you can.