My name is Andrew (I go by Drew) McWilliams and I humbly and begrudgingly (I really hate resorting to begging for money) ask for support to pay my bills during a very tough time for me. I have set my goal at $15,000 only in hopes that that will be enough to pay these bills for the next 10-12 months while I await a second, and hopefully, favorable decision for disability and social security. I live very simply and only have monthly rent, power, phone, car insurance (car is paid off), and internet bills. All total these bills run about $1200-$1300 a month, not including my food costs for myself and my 2 cats.

I am 41 (42 in June) years old and have 2 beautiful daughters that have both grown up and started their own lives. One is a college grad and the other is an active duty Navy sailor and I cannot rely on them to support my needs as they are both at the beginning of their own lives and careers. I am a 3 time cancer survivor (twice with Hodgkin's lympoma then once non-Hodgkins lympoma) and throughout my life of treatments, transplants, and hospital stays my body has been absolutely beaten down. The final straw that caused me to be unable to work was about 4 years ago when I got Covid and it severely effected my lungs.

I lost my last quality job then working as a mail clerk for the United States Postal Service and I have essentially been unemployed since then, unable to find employment that didn't require long periods of standing, walking, or physical labor. I was living off of my retirement savings and estate I recieved upon my mother's death around that same time up until around August of 2025. At this time the money ran out and I was about 6 months into the disability process. I was almost evicted from my apartment but for the grace of a few very good friends and family members that kept me from becoming homeless.

In November I was able to get a work from home job as a call center agent, helping credit union customers with card service needs, such as activating new credit cards, making payments and submitting fraud disputes. Last month I lost this job because of my inability to keep up with the high call turnover rates required by the company. Essentially I was unable to complete my calls in a short enough time period to meet minimum requirements due to my low lung capacity and inability to talk at length for long periods of time. I am currently looking for another similar job but not having any luck and am very aprehensive about the outcome if I were to get another anyway, as I feel it would sadly end the same way. At this same time was when I received my initial disability denail decision.

As it is at the current time, I am barely able to take my trash out to the apartment complex dumpsters and walk back to my upstairs apartment. This is about the extent of my physical ability without needing to rest for 15-20 minutes after to recover. I pay for grocery delivery from Wal-Mart to ensure I can shop for groceries due to being unable to physically shop and make trips to and from my car myself to bring them inside. Right now at this moment my bank account is overdrawn and my rent is due again with me having absolutely no way to pay it. It is currently 4/30/26 and if I do not have my rent paid by the 15th of next month I will again face eviction. I have very little extended family, a sister and a brother, and as much as they have helped me in the past several months they are in the situation of not being able support me as well.

I reach out to anyone that has the means and the ability to help as much or as little as possible. Again, it pains me to my core to have to resort to "begging" on the internet to strangers for support but if not for this last ditch effort I know I will become homeless. I wish for nothing more than to go back to living my "hermit" lifestyle with my 2 cats and not being a burdon to anyone any longer. Any and every bit of support, small or big will be most appreciated. I really don't know how to say thank you enough to anyone that is able to help.