Hi, my name is Dave and I am in my early 50s. I have lived on my own since I was 15. I struggled for a long time then married my wife at age 22 and had 2 amazing sons. 25& 27 now with great careers and lives.

My ex wife of 20 years decided she wanted something different so I had to divorce her. I left her and my sons the family home and moved.

I met my partner during the year after the divorce and have been with her since. We have 2 beautiful children, age 5 and 6 ; as well as my partners 14 year old daughter.

I worked a great career in the HVAC /R trade for decades. I have had tourette syndrome since a little kid as well as ptsd, adhd add, ocd, and mood disorders. I also have primary degenerative osteoarthritis and colitis. The tourette syndrome has has my involuntary movement agitate my joints and muscles so badly as well as my mental capacity has gotten to where I cannot work. I have enough earned work credits to be insured through ssdi and ssi and am in the second phase of the process which is very long.

We went from a VERY very consistent great living wage/income, to near nothing but public assistance (which has been a giant blessing though it seems things just keep getting more difficult.

Our only vehicle(that my partner financed was repossessed this morning.

We have been in default close to foreclosure twice already. My step dad helped the first time and then the HAF program helped this last time though I'm very concerned what is going to happen in a couple more months when I don't know what to do?

Our water meter has been shut off 3 times in the past year for 200$ bills each time. POWER HAS BEEN UNBELIEVABLY HELPFUL AND WRITTEN OFF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN BILLS THE PAST YEAR.

Now I'm super stressed as I don't have transportation to medical appointments, the kids, or for any other reason . I have had multiple medical appointments the past few months . The UW medicine Neurologists, my behavioral health, and primary.

I was very proud to always be able to work and support my family well so this whole disability process has been very difficult for myself as well as my family.

I really am reaching out as a last hope that something can be figured out to ensure we are good until the SSDI is approved and my back pay and monthly start. Although I've been told it can be 3months- over a year?

I'm trying to keep my chin up and show the family everything is going to be good but it's not very easy sometimes.

This Christmas we were extremely blessed by anonymous elves that bought multiple gifts for all of our kids for which was very very special as I did not have enough to do really much of anything this year....

But there are extremely good people out there in the world and you are all appreciated.

Thank you for reading and I realize just how many others are having it hard now a days.

Bless you all