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This campaign is the hardest thing I’ve ever done and the result of seriously desperate times, an avalanche of catastrophes that has left my beautiful family in hardcore trouble.
I am the sole support of my wife, our autistic daughter, two cats, and two aging dogs. Things have always been lean but we’ve managed to muddle through. That is, until this last January, when the following sequence of events happened.
Our lease ended and our landlords chose not to renew in order to sell their properties and retire. My wife’s mother was also their tenant, so we had to move her into a tiny apartment she found and all of our stuff into storage until we could afford to find a place for ourselves.
While moving I had to go to the ER three times – for diabetic ketoacidosis, pulmonary edema (congestive heart failure), and stage-four pneumonia from the first hospital stay. Doctor visits and prescriptions hit us hard.
While I was recovering my boss informed me that a corporate chain had unexpectedly bought the building where I worked and were evicting us with no plan B. We had four weeks to clear the store out and at the end of March we were all laid off.
Meanwhile, the family we were staying with decided they were unhappy with the arrangement and kicked us out. We found ourselves invading my mother-in-law's apartment until we could find the money to move.
While I was packing merchandise to ship out to our other stores, my back gave out. Another trip to the ER revealed, however, that it wasn’t a back injury but kidney failure. I had caught MRSA during my last hospital visit and the infection had spread to kidneys, heart, and my right arm. I was hours away from dying.
That was a month ago and I’m still in the hospital. The infection has required a long and aggressive regimen of different antibiotics while the doctors tried to pin the infection down and save my kidneys and keep my heart at functioning levels. They discovered a pocket of MRSA beneath my right knee that required surgery so now I have to use a walker.
So this is our situation. We’re staying in my mother-in-law’s miniscule one-bedroom place and living on the money we would have used to move. Once I am discharged my medications, including antibiotics, are going to kill us. I currently have no job, no opportunity to look for a job, and it will be a couple of months of healing and physical therapy before I can look for a job or even apply for unemployment.
This is why I’m asking for your help. I’m trying to keep us all in food and medications and necessities until I can get healthy again, until I can look for and find a job, until I can find us a place to live.
Two months is all it took to decimate us. It will take at least that long to start to rebuild. Please help keep my family fed and safe while I work on it. Every little bit is a blessing. Even the smallest amount will go to something needed.
Thank you so very much.
I am the sole support of my wife, our autistic daughter, two cats, and two aging dogs. Things have always been lean but we’ve managed to muddle through. That is, until this last January, when the following sequence of events happened.
Our lease ended and our landlords chose not to renew in order to sell their properties and retire. My wife’s mother was also their tenant, so we had to move her into a tiny apartment she found and all of our stuff into storage until we could afford to find a place for ourselves.
While moving I had to go to the ER three times – for diabetic ketoacidosis, pulmonary edema (congestive heart failure), and stage-four pneumonia from the first hospital stay. Doctor visits and prescriptions hit us hard.
While I was recovering my boss informed me that a corporate chain had unexpectedly bought the building where I worked and were evicting us with no plan B. We had four weeks to clear the store out and at the end of March we were all laid off.
Meanwhile, the family we were staying with decided they were unhappy with the arrangement and kicked us out. We found ourselves invading my mother-in-law's apartment until we could find the money to move.
While I was packing merchandise to ship out to our other stores, my back gave out. Another trip to the ER revealed, however, that it wasn’t a back injury but kidney failure. I had caught MRSA during my last hospital visit and the infection had spread to kidneys, heart, and my right arm. I was hours away from dying.
That was a month ago and I’m still in the hospital. The infection has required a long and aggressive regimen of different antibiotics while the doctors tried to pin the infection down and save my kidneys and keep my heart at functioning levels. They discovered a pocket of MRSA beneath my right knee that required surgery so now I have to use a walker.
So this is our situation. We’re staying in my mother-in-law’s miniscule one-bedroom place and living on the money we would have used to move. Once I am discharged my medications, including antibiotics, are going to kill us. I currently have no job, no opportunity to look for a job, and it will be a couple of months of healing and physical therapy before I can look for a job or even apply for unemployment.
This is why I’m asking for your help. I’m trying to keep us all in food and medications and necessities until I can get healthy again, until I can look for and find a job, until I can find us a place to live.
Two months is all it took to decimate us. It will take at least that long to start to rebuild. Please help keep my family fed and safe while I work on it. Every little bit is a blessing. Even the smallest amount will go to something needed.
Thank you so very much.
Organizer
John Gary Nettles
Organizer
Athens, GA