Support a Family Facing Unforeseen Hardships

Due to some unforeseen circumstances and turn of events, I will have to swallow my pride and do some sort of emergency fundraiser. Since the day my dad passed, I have been going through an incredible amount of distress with each day bringing new events and hardships. From the worst of family drama, finding out that my father’s insurance policies will not pay his funeral or anything for that matter. Taking that big blow to knock me down, to now trying to figure out how to come up with money to cremate him.

Friday was the final straw that broke the camel's back.

Unbeknownst to myself, the money that was given to my father to pay bills was NEVER PAID! I’m talking about for MONTHS when he was WELL…

I need to come up with a $2000 payment to lift a switch hold put on my power box at home before it is lifted. Friday, I came home around 8 am to my power being off and a LONG day of some very traumatic events and fighting through everything I can do! You name it, I tried it with the electric company. Ultimately, TXU will not lift the hold till payment is made. No other light company can turn on electricity in my home due to this hold.

Friday, I spent the day FIGHTING till I couldn’t anymore. I’m giving up, and I’ve been fighting a silent battle of hardships that I and my pride cannot control. To be a mother who is helpless and cannot have electricity on in her home due to someone else’s negligence has been the most horrific and traumatic feeling I’ve ever felt in my life.

Never mind the couple of hundreds of dollars I spent the day before to stock my fridge and freezer to prepare meals for my family over the weekend.

Friends and family, there is so much more that I have not come out with, and little by little, I will, but for now, this is the point of desperation for ME.

My mother is in a land and mind of her own.

I would never reach out to the public and make a post like this airing out personal business, but I’m desperate! I have been knocked down, punched in the face, and dragged through the mud in just a short week. I have had so many bad things happening in crumble in which ways I do not question God, and I do not question the hardships, the trials, and the tribulations that he brings my way. But I am only one person fighting a fight alone. My entire 39 years of life, I have been fighting battle after battle, and I’m tired of fighting. I have no more fight left in me. I’m tired of being strong, and I’m tired of life.

If I would have been told that this electricity bill was so outstanding, I would have put my anger aside and figured out a way, as I always do, to get this taken care of before it came down to this.

Ultimately, I need to keep paying the hotel to extend my stay for myself and my son. My daughter needs to be picked up from college tomorrow due to Christmas break, and I am just left without options.

Taking the advice of my friends to start this GoFundMe has been a very hard pill to swallow. But this entire situation is costing me thousands to not only come up with $2000 for the switch hold but for hotel and food costs. Never mind the pet fee to be able to have our dog with us.

God will one day present me with the opportunity to repay all of the help and support everyone has given, and I cannot wait to be in a position to do so.