Support a Resilient Soul Facing Health Challenges

UPDATED 6/16- Diagnosed with Spinal Lateral Recess & Foraminal Stenosis causing Radiculopathy (a type of neuropathy causing pain, tingling, numbness etc in my legs & feet) and being referred to a Nuerosurgeon along with Pain Management.

Hello! I’m very humbled reaching out to strangers like this as I have always done all I could to make my way through life without assistance from others. I love my home and I don’t have all my rent yet and if I don’t pay on time next month, they will not renew me & I can’t afford to move nor do I have the financial paperwork to get approved for a home.

I’ve spent most of my life working very hard & helping my mother through all of her health problems so she could continue the career she’s always loved & been amazing at.

Unfortunately, I overworked, overstressed & hardly slept. At 45, I have been unable to work a full-time job now since 2022 due to my own health issues.

2018 - cardiomyopathy crisis due to high blood pressure which led to an enlarged heart. Later that year, I found out I had endometrial cancer & had a partial hysterectomy. I went right back to working a week after my surgery while having complications. In 2020, when the pandemic hit, our world shut down, including the career I was in. December 2020, COVID got me 1 week into returning to work. I was bedridden for 3 weeks & continued on the next year & a half with long COVID (lung problems, dizziness, weakness, exhaustion). Since then, I tried working from home but by then my fibromyalgia started to flare up, I became diabetic due to my heart condition & neuropathy has kicked in.

I know this is a lot, but I feel I need to fully explain why I cannot work full-time and fully support myself anymore. Thankfully, I have a significant other that physically takes care of me, but it prevents him from working a 2nd job to make up for my lack of financial independence. The last 2 years, I’ve sold most of our collectibles to get by while I go to numerous doctor appointments, MRIs, CT scans, X-rays & physical therapy. I’ve been able to dog sit a few times, but he has to help me with that as well. My car was repossessed 2 months ago & now I am in debt to my mom & best friend $1,200 because I have to have my car. I just had to pay the car registration of $400 and my car payments are $450 a month. Mom has done what she can, like paying for the car insurance and helping with food & medical care for my service animal. In return, I help her around her house when I’m having a decent day. I never know what I will feel like each day when I wake up. The pain, shortness of breath, discomfort of even wearing clothing & dizziness when I do certain activities really makes or breaks how a day ends. I’ve had 2 very bad falls over the last year due to my footing.

My ultimate goal is to qualify for full disability benefits once all my diagnoses are finalized with all my specialists, but I’m told that will take up to 2 years. Meanwhile, I’m doing all I can!

Thank you so very much for reading all of this and helping me in these very desperate times! I promise you I am a very loving and giving person that has ALWAYS helped anyone I can, even those I don’t know. I’m the one that stops to help a stranger who’s stranded, I give my own food to someone in need, I offer clothing & necessities to those less fortunate. I’m humbled every day but have tried to make it on my own.