I'm on disability.   In 2002 I was injured in the army.  The amount of money I make on disability is way below the poverty level.  But I usually manage to get by.

I've tried to get a job over the years, but it's always been too much on me.  I can't stand for very long without pain, and I can't sit for too long without pain.  I have progressive disk disease and a narrowing spine.  

I'm behind in rent because I was finally able to manage to get my VA doctor to send me to a neurosurgeon.  And it cost me money that I can't really afford.  So now I might be homeless because I tried to get help.  I have a crushed disk in my spine in the neck that pinches on a central nerve.  This causes pain throughout my body but also causes parts of my body, like hands and legs (even neck sometimes) to just stop working momentarily.  I drop stuff.  I fall.  

The neurosurgeon collected my money and told me that my situation is hopeless.  There's nothing to be done.  I will just suffer in worse and worse pain while my body also continues to lose functionality until I die.  Someone said I should get a second opinion, but the first opinion cost me my rent money and now I might become homeless.

So besides all that, my son is graduating from high school in June.  He lives in another state.  I can't afford to go see my son graduate.  

I don't like asking for help.  I am poor because I am injured, and my goal to heal so that I can stop being poor made me poorer.  I don't want to be homeless because I tried to heal.  

And I very much need to see my son graduate.  It's the only light in my world right now.  

Please, if you can, help.