Support Chad's Journey to Health and Hope

Hello,

I'm Chad and I'm seeking help of some kind. Donations, an opportunity, I'm not sure what to ask for or expect. This go fund me is also to provide information to the powers that be information on what I am currently going through with the Social Security Administration. I have been on Social Security Disability for a long time. I am considered terminally ill. There's nothing really that my medical team in Dallas at UT Southwestern can do for me except monitor me. Please keep reading. I'm currently in western Oklahoma and looking to move more towards Ardmore or Durant area where I can be closer to some family there. I'm desperate to get out of the town I am in. I don't belong here. I only moved here because it was all I could afford. There is also far more and better opportunities there along with bigger casinos where I could actually start playing poker tournaments. They closed the poker room at the little casino here and turned it into a slot room. I was looking at getting into playing poker for a living is because I can win money and it not affect my disability benefits. Kind of funny how I can win millions by winning the lottery or by winning a major poker tournament and not lose my benefits, but by God I work part time from home and I go a few hundred dollars over Social Security's "Substantial Gain Activity" amount for a period of 4 months and I lost my benefits in Oct 2024. So not only did I lose over $1200 monthly in income, but I also lost my Medicare medical and hospital coverage. My Medicare premiums are about $200 monthly. I pay my Medicare part D "Prescription" so that I have my medication at least. That's about $40 monthly so that's another bill that I wasn't having to pay. The Social Security Administration states that they over paid me by over $27,000. The information they sent me was incorrect. The showed me still working for employers that I no longer work for. In 2022, I worked for CBN "Christian Broadcasting Network." I worked for them for about 4 months before ultimately getting let go. I feel that was religious persecution. From that time until about June 2024 when I started working for my current employer, I had a very difficult time with finding a stable job. I worked a contract job through a friend in my church and I hardly got any hours because of the way the scheduling was so I didn't make much money. I struggled with work as if "CBN" had tainted my resume or something. I got a few telemarketing jobs, one went out of business my first week working for them and the second fired their remote supervisor and decided to have in office workers only after I had worked for them about 2 weeks. I was doing pretty well at that job and thought I had finally found something decent. I know there are thousands of people in this country that are legitimately disabled and on Social Security Disability that are still having to work because they have no other help and do not get enough in disability benefits. Social Security Disability penalizes you if you work for a certain amount of time before they can take your benefits. Something needs to be done about this. This is not fair to anyone who is trying to support themselves. I'm trying to live my life like anyone else. I deserve to own my own home, and be able to live the rest of my life peacefully, happily, and without financial struggle. Let me start by saying that I was born with Congenital Transposition of the great arteries. I didn't have my first open heart surgery till I was 6 weeks old. I developed Atrial Pulmonary Hypertension in the process before my first surgery which was a banding procedure. My second open heart surgery was at 2 years old and my third was at 15 years old in which I was released from the hospital on my 16th birthday. In 2019 I went through a double lung and heart transplant evaluation in which I ended up in renal failure and was put in ICU. They did not anticipate me to live and even called my daughter home from the UK who was in the Air Force. I was ultimately denied the transplant due to low mortality rate and the fact that I would have also needed a liver because the medication that I am on damages your liver and kidneys. I am palliative care patient and on oxygen 80-90% of the time. I don't drink, do hard drugs, smoke cigarettes, vape, nor do I take prescription pain meds. I volunteered serving with my church in Texas by hosting the online church service from 2019 till earlier this year. I have even thought about going into Christian counseling or something of that nature in the ministry. In Texas I was faced with being put in a nursing home before 50 years old. Purchasing an RV and paying lot rent and utilities wasn't even an option for me. I was BORN with this. I did NOT ask for this. I've always wanted to be a pilot and go in the Military, but was always so limited. I have received a Phlebotomy certification and a few years later I received my CompTIA A+ certification. I was put on disability when I was 16. I attempted working full time before my first daughter was born. My last full time job I was a working in the data center as a computer operator for a market research company. I was also training to be a Jr systems administrator. I started having more severe health issues and had to reinstate my disability which took writing Texas governor Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchinson at the time. I was finally reinstated. Since then I became a stay home father and have raised 3 daughters who along with their mother (ex wife) raised them with Christian values. They all live a very productive life. One has retired from the Air Force and one is a new mom. I haven't even gotten to meet my grandson yet. My kids possibly think that I don't want anything to do with them but that couldn't be further from the truth. I have been struggling financially that I can't even pay for the auto insurance on my vehicle to go see them. My youngest daughter will be getting married soon and the way things are going, I don't know how I'm going to make it to her wedding which is going to break my heart as well as hers and possible cause a rift in our relationship all because the government seems to think I'm about to die anyways so why not strip me of everything and leave me for dead right? Things started to get more rough for me after my mother passed in December 2017. I had a little help from my step father and he remarried not too long after. He was there for me as much as he could be. I had to start working in 2019. I worked for a department retail store for a few months and left because I couldn't physically handle the job. I moved to Oklahoma because I could not afford anywhere in Texas. Even the little 1 bedroom with no washer/dryer connections that I was renting for $600 in 2017 was renting for $1200 last time I checked and the apartment that I moved to Oklahoma from which flooded after the Texas snow storm in 2021 after losing power for 3 days and the power came back on and most of the apartments in the community flooded. Took over 6 months to get everything repaired and I had leaking water the whole time. That apartment last time I checked was going for $1400+. The little house I'm currently in is not an appropriate place for them to come visit. It was managed by a property management company, but I had to have some work done so after that the owner took it over and I now do not have a legal lease so it could be any time the owner could decide to sell or evict me with no notice. Not to mention the last message from him was "I will be out of the country for a while; please send payment to my wife." By the way his wife is Korean and may possibly be here illegally. As for myself, I have many hobbies and interest. Many of which I am not physically able to do. I have played guitar for over 30 years. I had 3-30 min lessons when I fist started and hadn't had the opportunity to take any since. I like musicians across different genres. Anyone from Polyphia, Andy James, Bernth, Angel Vivaldi, Mateus Asato, Satriani, Vai, Dimebag Darrell, Joe Bonamassa, and the list goes on. I'm a musician, I can play different instruments with practice of course. I am very into poker. I wanted to enter one of the WSOP tournaments at Choctaw, Durant, OK. I was not able to afford to be able to do that. $130 buy in and $30k guarantee. I could have at lease cashed a few thousand. I was working on my Google certificates for Cybersecurity and UX design. I had received a scholarship, but not able to finish due to working and when I'm not working I'm too exhausted. I know my limitations and all I can seem to find is customer service and I get yelled or cussed at often which causes my heart to race and not to be able to breathe correctly. I have had no choice but to work because disability benefits are not enough to pay for anything without some kind of supplemental income. The government makes sure of this. Even though with my current job I only make within $100 dollars or less what I was getting in disability benefits. Not only do I have go pay my other bills, rent, phone ( have to be able to call 911 if need be), water, electric, and so on, I now have to pay out of pocket for my Medicare premiums which totals up to over $200 monthly. I have asked, begged and pleaded with my current company to allow me to go full time. They are fully aware of my situation, my health and that I've had to get back on food stamps. I have been there just shy of 6 months. I applied for a different full time position that should be less stressful that the position I'm in now and I got denied immediately because of "Corporate Policy." I have tried everything, but yet they are quick to point out when you don't do something right. This is how things really are in the Corporate America. It's a shame that it's so hard for anyone to get anywhere in this county. I need help, an opportunity to be able to make money on my own knowing my limitations. I'm good with computers. I want to finish my Google certificates, get into poker tournaments, or music or something. I need financial stability, but I'm willing to earn it if necessary. I'm not sure what to expect from this. To be honest right now it seems like no one cares or no one is willing to help. If we are really trying to "Make America Great Again" then show me how great this country can be. Right now I'm not seeing it. I did not ask for this or to be born the way I was, but I am asking for an opportunity or help. Show me that this is still a great country we live in and lets do our best to help those in need. It's not just me, there are many others that could use help or opportunities as well. I have to keep a roof over my head. I DO NOT have the physical stature to live on the streets. I wouldn't make it and that's the truth. I also want to meet my grandson and have a relationship with him, but that seems impossible at this moment. Thank you for reading all this and thank your for any help or opportunity that you are willing to put my way. Please also watch and share along with this go fund me page the video that I have uploaded to Facebook. I have shorter videos on X as well. @baildog2011. Thank you again for your help. Please use the link below in a web browser and not the app. It doesn't seem to load correctly coming from the app.

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In Cardiac ICU in 2019.