Robin Needs Your Help to Stay Safe and Have A Future

Hi. I'm Robin. I'm 66 and alone And I'm in trouble. Deep trouble.

Due to a number of medical issues, including insulin-dependent type 2 Diabetes, various other health issues and especially very severe clinical anxiety, I ran out of my savings. I didn't want to ask for help and was too scared, too "frozen" to face this crisis, so on January 14, 2025, I ran out of everything. I thought the world had ended. I was terrified and didn't know how I could go on. The next day, I was in the hospital with another Diabetic crisis and the world on my shoulders. I thought my life was over; I had no food. In the weeks following, awaiting social services to get Meals On Wheels going, I did go hungry. Eventually, all I had left was a few slices of Wonder Bread and some peanut butter. Nothing else for almost 2 weeks. I had no transportation then, either. And no knowledge of how to resolve any of it. But social services in Southern California has been wonderful! I went from helpless and hopeless to real help and true HOPE!

But the future beckoned. That's where you enter this journey. You can help restore my dignity and pick me up after I fell very far and very hard in so many ways.

Social services in California has kept me alive since then. But I need help now to get back on my feet and avoid homelessness. It's a very pressing concern and I'm running out of time. I am so very scared. And I am profoundly ashamed. I must be truthful about that.

A cousin helped me with a prescription, but I can't ask him to do that again. I won't. He was so wonderful, but he can't support me; I have to support myself. You folks can help me for the interim so I can do that!

I look forward to the day - soon - when I can end this campaign and face the world again on my own. Meanwhile, I have to save myself - with your help. It's not easy to ask for help. Not easy at all.

As for my needs at this point, I must prepare to get a job. I need proper clothing for job interviews, makeup and to be able to keep up with a very expensive prescription as well as other prescriptions. I also still have difficult debts caused by this crisis, including a burdensome phone bill I must pay off. I now have a government phone, but I have to pay off the debt on my original number, which grew during this crisis. Debt will ruin my credit score! And I need that for a job to stay housed. I'm asking for a hand up to contribute to society in dignity and safety, not a handout.

Thank you for listening and any help you may be able to give. It's hard to be so alone, ashamed and scared.

Please give or share or both. Thank you with all my heart.

Love,

Robin