Urgent Help to Save Brad & Support Pets From Homelessness

Hello, it's Brad Ellington living in Thomasville, NC, and I'm coming to you on a bent knee pleading for you to bestow me with a little hope and help so that I don't lose my 3 fur babies, who are my emotional support animals and my complete heart, all my belongings, and end up homeless on the street in 5 days. If I lose them over this, I will be beyond devastated, and it'll just open the floodgates of despair and hopelessness I've been trying to avoid.

I had eviction court this past Monday and was given 10 days to find a place and get out. I've been through all the local resources and avenues I've found and have come up with nothing that will be of service to me in such a short time frame. I don't know what to do.

I lost my job because I didn't have a vehicle to get me there, due to an accident I was in that totaled my car last spring. I have been battling Major Depressive Disorder with Reoccurring Episodes, have developed neuropathy issues in my left foot and hands, for which I've been receiving medical direction, and also an intense level of anxiety and stress that is flat-out debilitating. I'm overwhelmed, and when something hits me hard, it makes me literally just physically shut down. I can't focus, have breathing issues, and I just space out as my arms and legs tremble and shake. I've never had anything like this affect me so severely, and the medication they give doesn't seem to pull me out of it.

I just escaped eviction court in October and brought in a roommate to make my situation easier, and that has blown up in my face. He hasn't held his agreement and owes me well over $1000, and me counting on him to have his part has only placed me in even more dire straits and eviction court once again. I was struggling enough already, and then to have everything thrown at me at the last second with past due amounts has been damn near impossible to achieve and has thrown my anxiety and stress into overdrive.

My wife, Carmen Long/Ellington, passed away unexpectedly in Dec 2021, then my mother-in-law, Glenda Rae Long, who I was looking after with Stage 4 Kidney Disease, died 11 months later. It's the worst thing to have to go through, especially when you're all alone. It's devastating. It hasn't been easy on me the last 3 years, and it seems like every time I get something good in my life, it gets taken away. This was our home, and it might not seem like much, but it felt like home, was my lil sanctuary, and now that's being taken away from me.

I have no family left really, definitely none in the area, so I have no idea where I'm gonna go after this happens. I've been trying to sell things I own, and nothing is moving, or people think they can come in and take advantage of my situation and offer next to nothing on it so they can make money off my misfortune. How is that the compassionate, empathetic thing to do when someone you consider a friend is in the situation I'm in? I know people have to make sacrifices, but seriously?! I have lots more things I can let go of, but I don't have enough hands, clones of me, or time in a day to get it all out there online, and I'm running out of time fast. 4 days.

If I can get money together, then at least I have the option of being able to at least negotiate something to come up with a place to move to. Then I have to contend with finding a way to move it all, but one obstacle at a time, please.

I'm terrified in all honesty. I'm getting too old to have to fight and fend for myself, especially in the streets all alone. Please find it within to donate to my cause so that my cats; Vader, Ahsoka, and Buddy Cat, and I may have the solace and assurance of a roof over our heads. Please. It's really gotten that serious at this point, and without a blessing, I will be homeless and on the streets. Thank you and be blessed.