Hi! I’m Kathy and I need help with my teeth.Sometimes people give up. Sometimes they lose all hope, and their will to live. Sometimes they wake up crying. Sometimes they’ve just had enough.

I’ve been mourning the loss of my brother for about 8 years. I no longer cared about anything, especially myself. I had given up.

Maybe it’s because he was my best friend, maybe because he had one of my kidneys inside of him, or maybe I’m just extremely sensitive. I don’t know.

During this time of grief and depression I completely ignored my health and my teeth. They started chipping at the gum line and I didn’t care. I was secretly praying for some disease that would take me out in my sleep.

It got bad fast. And my not caring turned into being mortified that I let myself go to this extreme.

I live with my father in law. I care for him, do all the cooking, cleaning, yard work, in exchange for a place to live. I don’t have a vehicle to even go get a job, so I’m in quite the predicament.

Teeth that are turning black and falling out, and no way to pay for the dental work I desperately need done.

I stopped giving up, and I want to be able to smile again.

And now I need all the help that I’ve been giving all my life to my fellow humans, returned, kindly.

This is the very last thing I want to do: asking people for help. But if I don’t get this taken care of, it’s going to get much worse.

It’s never too late to become who you might have been.