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Help My Family with multiple crises

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Those who know me, know how much I absolutely hate to ask for help, so please bear with me as I do so.

My mom and middle brother are both disabled, and haven't worked in decades. Last year my mom and dad separated after 40 years of marriage.

My brother has been living on $2600 a month disability and has to survive on this amount until he's age 60. With my mom not having worked in so long, when her and my dad separated she was left with no income, no savings - and due to issues with proving her citizenship (she was born in the US to my grandmother who lied on my mom's birth records about where my grandma was born, what my grandmother's name was and her age), we can't yet get her pension either (a situation I've been working all year to rectify, at great personal expense).

In order to help them have a safe place to live and them be able to support one another, i bought/ started to rent-to-own a condo in the fall that will be left in trust to my brother once I pass, so that he has a safe and stable place to live into old age.

Last September my mom was hospitalized with a respiratory infection and pneumonia.

During that time scans revealed what appeared to potentially be cancerous growths on her lungs. Those growths were confirmed to be tumors a little over a month ago, and it appears that they have spread to her lymph nodes. Due to her lung capacity she's not a candidate for surgery.

Two weeks ago, my youngest brother died by suicide, three days before my mom was told her tumors would be inoperable and that they would have to do biopsies and determine the amount of spread and what non-surgical treatment options she did have.

As you can imagine, this has left a terrible amount of grief, and there's a ton of financial pressure as my family navigates this diagnosis, plus expense associated with my brother's memorial and funeral costs - when they are low income or no income.

Additionally, today my brother found bed bugs in the condo, and we are now facing having to deal with exterminators and covering costs to replace items that may be affected by this.

My husband and I have both been doing our best to support the family financially but are also now starting to be stretched to our limits and capacity, along with missing work to handle appointments and arrangements.

In order to help support my family, I'm asking if you'd be able to help support us in any manner you may be able.

Here's how funds will be utilized;

1) support with related expenses for my brother's memorial.

2) helping to address the costs associated with amending my mom's birth records to prove her Canadian citizenship.

3) helping to cover costs for extermination and replacement of associated items in my mom and brothers condo.

4) support for associated costs of my mom's treatment and recovery.

5) helping to put myself and my brother in a position to have a small contingency fund for future expenses as it relates to his livelihood and in the event of further emergencies.

Thank you so much in advance for making any contribution you can, and sharing if you can't.
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