Hi, I'm Barbara. My dog, Sasha Romeo, and I live in a guest house behind a house. I found out 2 years ago that there were leaks: one inside the wall, two the shower valves had to be replaced, and that there were several leaks in the roof. Not to mention that when it used to rain, the water would flow from one of my walls all the way out my door.

The place is great, but the landlord can only do so much because he is about to be 80, I believe. He has never raised the rent on me. I've been here 7 years, but 2 years ago I was sent to the hospital over a half dozen times for allergic reactions on my skin.

My neighbor left a pool out back, and it had been sitting there stagnating with pool water and from a tropical storm for several months, breeding God knows what out there.

I'm to the point I know I need to move because I'm getting sick and so are my dogs. It's attacking around their eyes, their ears, and now Sasha has a big tumor on the back of her neck. Everyone out there knows that means surgery or putting her down. She is 16 years old. I cannot afford to do either one. I live on a fixed income of $1200 a month from SSI. I've had the inside and outside sprayed at least 12 times in the past 3 years.

It doesn't help with fungus and mold. You can only see so much with your eyes, but there are over 500 different species that can come from mold and fungus.

Over the past 2 years, I've been bitten, and so have my pets. I've cleaned this place over and over with every kind of cleaner: mold bombs, scrubbed every wall at least 3 times. My neighbors up front got rid of their dog, an English Bulldog, about 2 years ago, and it's still going on. I just really need to get out of here, before I die I'm this place so if you have the means to help .e out please donate and I thank you all for the help you have given me over time.

I now have to use a CPAP machine, use new inhalers, and I've taken several pills. Now they have gotten a new dog, and my concerns run very high with the dogs.

She has cats that run wild and 2 cats in the house. I can't get rid of the fleas. I've had my bed, which I'm still making payments on, steamed cleaned twice.

I've had my carpet kit steamed cleaned in my truck, and they are still here. I've been picking up the dog poop for years because she never did it.

Now I have a breathing machine also and still not getting any better. I really need to move, but where am I going to find a place to live for $600 a month, all utilities paid, in California? Nowhere, not even in other states can you find that. So I try not to complain too much. I've had the housing authority out here 2 times. He fixed the leaks and a few other things but did not address the mold and fungus. He bought a bottle of mold cleaner twice. I've bought mold cleaner, bleach, vinegar, baking soda, peroxide, alcohol, Lime-A-Way, bleach and lemon cleaners, Dawn dish soap, borax—you name it, I've bought it. I can't afford to do it anymore. I'm fully disabled, 60 years old. I can't afford to take my dogs to the vet. I barely can feed myself on that income. I couldn't afford to get insurance and pay my tags this past month, and they will be due again in November. I've borrowed so much money from my kids and everyone else I know. I don't have any friends anymore. I have someone taking care of me because I have fallen several times and screwed up my body. Now both hips and knees have been replaced, 2 shoulder surgeries. I can't live with anyone, and I have my dogs. I don't know where else to turn to anymore. I need some help here so we can take care of ourselves. I've tried to get Section 8; they took me off the list 2 times. I've called, texted, sent emails, etc., to several people. I can't get on a list for Section 8 housing vouchers, and I still get no help. So I'm reaching out to people who have more money than they know what to do with to help me out. I have goals also. I have a car I was trying to fix up so I can drive it again. It's been sitting for too many years. I would love to open a business I've been thinking about for the last 2 years, but still, I cannot get help with that. So all my dreams and hopes are failing me, and it's hard to keep pushing forward knowing I can't find anyone to help me out. So day after day, I try and do my best. I have a chip inside of me to help me walk and stand, but it's failing me also. I've tried to get into stocks, but again, I don't have money. They say it's free to start, but it's not free; you have to pay some kind of fee.

I'm so depressed and discouraged these days, and I know there is someone out there that has money to help me go forward. So if I can get any help, I'll have to give up on the human race to help me out of these hard times. I know how to do a lot of things; it's just that I can't do it anymore by myself.

So those people out there that can help me, I will appreciate everything that you can do to get me out of this depression because the medication isn't helping me anymore, and you can only stay numb for so long until people out there like me can't afford to go on anymore. I am 60, and I'm not old yet. If I can still walk, I can do something for someone else.

I give away half of my food to people out there that can't even get a meal per day because I know how it feels to be homeless out there: no money, no food, no transportation to even get water. So please help me out; I can really use it.

My immune system has been compromised. I'm on an injection for my skin, and it's not helping. So those people out there that can afford to help me, I promise it does come back tenfold. Thank you all, and God bless us all.

Barbara A. Pulakka. I should put more money on my GoFundMe, but I'm just trying to get by in this messed-up world!