Stand by the Karandang Family

Hello, my name is Jazmin Karandang. I am the wife of Brandon Karandang and the mother of Micah Karandang. Recently this year, my husband has been diagnosed as legally blind. We had just finished nursing school a few months prior, and after three months, my husband has basically lost 90% of his vision.

We’re still trying to find a way to not just cope with it but live with it. We have been homeless before, but we always had family to depend on, and we were so happy this year because we finally did it. You know, we finally graduated, we had our licenses, and we were getting job offers and looking into housing of our own because we were making enough for a good month and a half before his eyes completely went out. Everything fell on top of my shoulders, and you know, I took that on, but nothing prepared us for what was to come next.

Now, I’ve had to leave my job to become a caregiver and a nurse for him so that I can make sure he eats, that he’s able to walk to the bathroom without hurting himself, get dressed, and find the right medication. Without me here, he wouldn’t be able to do any of it. I haven’t worked, and I’m about to lose our housing. I don’t have a car that can get me to and from any type of job. I have a really old car. My car was slammed into by a drunk driver, and it got totaled. Now I’m using a car from 2001 that my husband used in high school.

I made this because it was my last resort. I’ve gone to the Salvation Army, I’ve reached out to my job, and I’ve reached out to other friends to look into other doctors because my husband’s eye condition is rare, and so there’s not a lot of medicines for it or ways to fix it. We’ve been buying over-the-counter products and using steroids and all types of different contacts, but today the doctor finally told us that it would only get worse without any type of help for it, but there’s not a lot of help for it. And that there was nothing more he could do. There are clinical trials that we could try.

If anyone sees this, even if you can’t donate a dollar or anything, I do not blame you. I don’t feel bitter towards not getting any type of help. I just would like a prayer for us, for my mental health, because it is chipping away. I have depression, severe depression,I work through it for my family because I love my family. But now that I’m not able to work for my family, we can’t even keep ourselves afloat. I just ask for a prayer. Thank you and God bless all of you.