Heyo, I'm Mateo, and I am raising funds for my mother.

Ever since I've known her, my mother has been our sole provider. She works everyday as a massage therapist improving the lives of others; helping many people of different walks of life move freely after years of pain and agony.

Recently, we've been hit with a major financial burden out of our control. Our old mortgage company didn't pay our property taxes, resulting in a $7,000 bill for us to pay. My mother has already drained her retirement funds to pay this company over $12k just to save our house from over four different foreclosure notices.

Every month she pays $2,500 just for our mortgage payment for our little 1 and 1/2 house; her check is only $2,000 weekly if business is busy... On the worst weeks she only makes $600 dollars. My mother also pays for our health insurance, our car insurance, medical appointments, utilities, and more. As I and my two siblings grew up, we cashed in money to her to try and help but it's only impacted so little as neither of us even make $1k a week. Even though us siblings have taken on different utilities to pay, it's still not enough to give her a break.

Recently, she's been involved in a workplace incident that has left her without vision in her left eye. On the 6th she will be paying $600+ just for the surgery, not including future payments regarding the other bills sent afterword. This surgery also doesn't guarantee she will receive her vision back; resulting in having to visit other methods and thus feature medical bills.

She has been fearful that she will never regain her vision again. She's told me all she wants to do is crochet again, something she had to give up once she lost the vision in her eye. She's done nothing but support my artistic endeavors and seeing the pain in her eyes at the thought of never crocheting again hurts deep within my soul.

I know deep down she's also terrified her vision will cause her to be unable to work or drive anymore. If she looses her ability to work, it will affect our ability to survive. All she's known for the past 20+ years is providing for her kids, and I want to help her through the pain she deals with as her son.

I am hoping to raise enough money to at least get the property tax payment burden off her shoulders. She's given up so much just to raise us kids, and I want to do something that will smooth the burden she has trying to keep us all alive. To help ease her heart a little about the money burdens we have would be enough to help her get by.

If we manage to raise anything else, it will be going towards bills and any other expenses my mother will have regarding her eye health.