Support Amber's Fight for Stability and Health

My name is Amber. I’m a single mom to a 16-year-old daughter. I’ve lost both parents to cancer. I’m divorced with very limited help. I am at the verge of being evicted and I’m applying to any and all resources available, but right now options are limited. I just want to stay where I am for another year because my daughter will be a senior next year, and I just want her to graduate from her school because she has so many people keeping her on track. I’ve just had so many life-changing things happen in a short period of time.

I lost my job on June 20, 2024, due to health issues. (It really is a long story, but I know they were looking for reasons to get rid of me.)

On September 30, 2024, my daughter was driving to school (on her permit with me in the passenger seat) and we were hit head-on by another driver, totaling my only vehicle. My vehicle was not worth much due to its age and condition, so even getting a payout was far less than needed to purchase another vehicle.

I was diagnosed with a 6mm fusiform cerebral aneurysm on April 7, 2024, after going to the hospital for a concussion. I had no symptoms of the aneurysm but knew genetically I was predisposed due to my paternal grandmother dying of the exact thing when she was only 35 years old.

It took until April 1, 2025, to get stents placed to prevent a rupture. (I lost my insurance and had to get on state insurance, and then they needed to fight the state about me needing the treatment.) I have two stents, one inside of the other, 12mm and 14mm. I’m on blood pressure medication, blood clotting medication, and 325mg of aspirin. I will be on the clotting medication for 6 months. I will need to take the 325mg aspirin for a year, and then I’ll need baby aspirin for life. Since this is genetic, I will need to be seen, at minimum, every year.

On top of the aneurysm, I have a plethora of other diagnoses and things doctors are watching. I have a type of lupus, anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, agoraphobia, an invasive mole that isn’t cancer but can mimic cancer, asthma that is getting worse, and then more of the run-of-the-mill high blood pressure and high cholesterol that run in my family. I’m also being watched for cervical cancer due to many abnormal results. I’m also at high risk for breast cancer because that took my mom’s life when she was 47. My father died at 68 from aggressive colon cancer, so that is also a condition they are watching.

Between the aneurysm, I also developed a condition where one eye dilates differently, making me VERY unsteady and causing me to lose my balance. I’ve had that checked, and there’s no real reason they can find. It makes tasks hard some days because I don’t want to fall on my head.

I don’t typically ask for help, but I’m drowning. I don’t know what it’s like to not be in constant flight mode. The last time I needed help was because I was working 40+ hours a week and did not have a local bank (certified funds are hard to get, and that’s all they would take at a certain point), which caused multiple late payments and eviction notices because I just could not get ahead. I was also playing catch-up because my daughter had been hospitalized 3 times for her own mental health, so I missed a good chunk of income when she was inpatient.

I want to work, but right now I just physically cannot. I’m beyond exhausted, and every place I’ve tried to be hired at has become a “thanks, but no thanks.”