Please Help our Family Overcome Health and Hardship

Hello! I really do not like asking for help but recently we have been hit with some unexpected trying times and I just want my kids to feel like everything will be ok. We have had so many people help us in the last few years and I don’t feel like we deserve any more but I also don’t want to see fear in my kids eyes any more over the things we haven’t been able to control. If you are hard up on these trying times as well, please don’t donate because I don’t wish this stress on anyone else but if you will, please, at least, keep us in your prayers because we would truly be grateful for that!

as some of you know Chris was diagnosed with Graves’ disease ten years ago. He went from being perfectly healthy, volunteering on a fire dept and doing work for the city which he really enjoyed, to getting to a point of not being able to do those things he loved anymore. He lost weight so quickly when he got graves that he lost muscle mass in his back and had to go through physical therapy at several different places but nothing was helping. He has been getting shots where they numb nerves in the back but he has to keep going and get them as they do wear off every 2-3 months and they don’t alleviate the pain completely. On top of that he has been struggling to get his thyroid number leveled out for years now. It seems it’s always high or always low and it affects how he feels and what he can do from day to day.

three years ago we went through something very traumatic with my kids and was forced to move out of the only house they have ever known in a quick amount of time, lost family we were all close to, and had to live in a hotel for some time and none of it was my kids fault but but my girls spent some time blaming themselves for simply telling me about something that was happening to them that still leaves them with nightmares. All of us now have a psychiatrist and we have appointments for therapies, regular appointments, and all of Chris’s extra appointments he has to go to. We have one car. To protect my children from more pain after the news broadcasted what we were going through, we decided to move to a city in a state where we didn’t know anyone (but we have met some wonderful people we will always be grateful for) but Chris finding a job that he can do that he can take off for appointments for him and the rest of us has been challenging. He either uses his time for appointments and ends up with no sick time which has lead twice to Covid and once to a stomach bug and getting let go or he forfeits some of his appointments for the kids and I and he ends up sick again. He tries to keep going but some days his body just needs a break. We have all been diagnosed with PTSD and we are just trying to get mentally healthy but it seems every time we turn around, something happens. Disability is a year and a half behind and Chris found that he can make as much money sparking for Walmart in a day and door dashing sometimes in the evening than he can working a regular job but we can work or around our schedule of appointments this way. But then the water pump has gone out on our car at the same time of him starting a new medication given by his psychiatrist office that he had some type of reaction to and caused him to overdose. The bottle says take one pill a day, he literally took one pill and became so lethargic I couldn’t wake him up so I put a pulse ox on him and his o2 was dropping to 50. He went to the hospital and was better to come home, ate dinner and seemed fine, to falling asleep and not breathing hardly and out of it again. My kids were so scared he was dying and they were losing someone else they love again. This time he was admitted into the hospital and put on a bypap machine. He had acute injury to his kidneys and was in respiratory failure. He had been breathing so messed up that he wasn’t releasing co2 and I guess it was building in his blood (this is about what I understood from it but I am not a nurse so I may have explained it wrong) I drove our car to let the kids see him even though it was beeping at me that it was overheating. Kaitlyn needed to see he was going to be ok but we got there and we could hardly wake him up and when he did wake up, he was very confused. It was terrifying for them. If our car hadn’t started having issues when it did, I could have sparked some while he was in there and kept us afloat. We have became behind on our rent while dealing with a large electric bill that was our electric companies fault but they weren’t wanting to work with us and we truly finally felt like we were going to get our rent caught up sparking before our car started overheating and Chris had to spend several days at the hospital. I know it’s hard times for everyone and I truly hate asking for help but I just don’t want my kids to worry anymore. They truly don’t deserve the extra stress that life has already thrown at them. Kaitlyn has a lot of things she is dealing with right now and we finally found a therapist she likes and feels like she can talk to and I don’t want her to miss these appointments. We had our thermostat replaced a couple of months ago and now it’s the water pump. $500 is all we need to fix it and we can spark. Our landlord wants to evict us and if he does I just feel like maybe Gods got bigger better plans for us but I would like to catch our rent up now that our electric bill is. And we won’t have to worry. If you cannot donate, please just say a prayer for us and ask God to give us guidance because we need that the most right now! Thank you so much for reading this