Please help me during this difficult time

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Please help me during this difficult time

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THANK YOU GIFT FOR ALL MY BELOVED DONORS:

I plan on making a DVD* and a YouTube of photos collected of my mom. Let me know if you want the DVD* or just the YouTube link. 

Please look for your thank you note for my contact info on where to send either item. 

If you opt for the DVD: It will be personalized just for you with your name and your contribution. 

I am forever grateful to you all in helping me during this most difficult time in my life. My Mom was lucky to have known you all and I’m sure this would make her extremely happy.


PLEASE NOTE: The cremation ceremony, it’s on my FaceBook Live and will only allow it to be stored there for 30 days after 12/5/23

UPDATE: 12/3/23 7:11pm EST 
I was requested to leave this up since KP friends get paid next week. I really do appreciate everyone who have done this for my mom and I. Without your help I would be in the streets in no time and it’s winter here. My my goal is to get back to Cali as soon as I can. My mom wouldn’t want me to be here alone. 

ORIGINAL MESSAGE & REASON FOR THIS:
 I don’t ask for help, but my mom died suddenly. I can’t say it was unexpected because she has been sick for some time from COPD, heart issues, and liver damage from all the medications she had been on over the years. I moved us to Ohio hoping for a fresh start and so she could see her mom before she passed.

But instead I ended up injuring myself and not being able to work after moving here. At the same time, her health was declining and I soon became her 24/7 caregiver and that was my job as well as my duty as her only child. I thought she wasn’t that bad until she started quickly dropped 90lbs in less than a year and eventually she was bedridden with hardly any strength to even stand.

I know she would have appreciated that was working, as did I, but I know I couldn’t physically do it. I have been looking online all year, but I’m only getting scams and companies that apparently sold my information out to whomever.

Anything I’ve sold online went my mom. Because she was providing for me and I had no need to buy anything for myself. I’m still trying to figure out everything because she left me in the dark in regards to bills and such. I tried for months to ask her to provide info, but she always put it off insisting she’d do it later.

Well now later is too late and I have $6 in my account and $160 in her name. That’s not enough to cover anything. I don’t ask for help, but I have no choice. I’ll be looking for a job locally and hope I can do it physically. But meanwhile, her funeral costs will need to be paid first. I don’t even know how much the 911 call and the life saving measures performed in the ER will be.

I have a lot of things I’m dealing with. My mom was my rock these last couple of years. She was my best friend and the only person who I was able to be around 24/7. We called each other and spoke on the phone for hours even though we would in the same house.

Even on video chat because she just wanted to always see my face (I guess). We both had issues, but we knew we had each other to lean for support. Now I’m alone, jobless, and in the dark on how I’m going to cope with my life without her.  

SERVICES:
Services are not available. This GoFundMe is only for funeral costs and private cremation services. If I wanted her to have a full service it costs $9k. My poor mom will be in a cardboard box with a small but cute Tiffany glass looking urn named “seaside” for her love of California and its beaches.

I didn’t want to ask more to get the full on package because mainly because I wasn’t expecting to get hardly any donations.

I had to plan her services fast and I would have two weeks to pay. Otherwise they will stuff her in a bag and place her in a cabinet for years her sister. My mom deserves more than that. If I knew people were going to pull through like this. I definately WOULD have had a full funeral. But nature doesn’t wait and I had to decide what to do within a certain window of time. So add to your calendar, wear purple for my mom, every year December 5th Purdy Purple Day. 

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Adrienne Flores
Organizer
Urbana, OH
Donna Gregory
Co-organizer

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