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Hi my name is David. I'm trying to raise money for my Mom to pay our rent for our home. I like living in this house because it is like our home we came from in Florida. We came to California to live near my Grampa and my Dad got sick. He is only 34 and he has lost part of his memory and has symptoms of schizophrenia. His illness is called Pugalistic Dementia. He was diagnosed with it after he had a "mental lapse" on his first day of his new job as a security officer. My Dad is very fun and really smart. He has a photographic memory, he can recite the entire Bible, he can paint your portrait in 5 minutes, he always plays with us after work and he can keep up with me on every subject... especially Astro physics. He holds a CDL, a Guard Card, he's an electrician, and he was a Professional Boxer. He even fought on HBO, Telemundo, & ESPN! I was at his last fight at age 3 when my Mom's famous Boxer friend Christy Martin trained him. He was a great boxer! And he wad a really good Marine! To see a lot of the world when he was in the Marine Corps he went to Japan to Korea to Australia he was stationed in Hawaii that's where his home was the whole time he was a Marine but he said he was out on a ship most of the time so he didn't get to see Hawaii too much... but the Doctors think that boxing, playing football in being a tough Marine during the war is what made him sick. Anyway, it has been different since he got sick, my Mom had to teach him everything again..even to get dressed. Hes getting better now, but he can't do lots of things he used to. He doesn't remember how to drive a car or fix electrical stuff. He says he doesn't remember how to paint when my Mom bugs him to paint her portrait to hang again like at home in Florida. My Mom is different now too. She has a lot of jobs now because she had to go to work instead of being a homemaker or whatever they call it. She still works at home too, but now she does all the jobs my Dad used to do. She likes it though because she likes fixing things when something breaks, and she loves doing the yard work and being outside. She says being outside in her yard is when she spends time with God and my Gramma. She doesn't get to do that as much anymore because she has to take care of all of us and she's too tired at night. I love my Mom because she still takes care of us even when she's too tired, she always says she "breathes in the morning.... for us", and because she always keeps her promises. Oh yeah, and she works hard for others, and she will never trade my Dad. She loves us. My mom says that we will be back to normal like it used to be, we just have to fight hard and love each other. She promised we would have a house again when we lived in a small apartment and my Dad started getting sick . We would be able to have a backyard to flip over rocks& look for bugs. She kept that promise. My Mom says she will do anything to keep us in our home and in our school. I go to a rated 8/10 school in Clovis Unified. My Mom fought hard to move us here just so my sister & I would go to our school. I am consider ed a genius. My Mom homeschooled me until 2nd grade and then when I went to school, they placed me in the 4/5 th class. My parents taught me how to read the scriptures when I was 3. I liked to read and memorize all my Moms medical books..thats how I started wanting to be a scientist. I love Science & Biology!– Our life has been really good and my Dad is getting better and better. We all have to be very careful not to stress him because it can start an episode which lasts weeks and it does damage to his brain. He even doesn't remember any of the time during the episodes...but we do. My Mom does a good job of keeping him happy except some stuff has been hard for her this past two months. Her patient at her work died. Then her best friend went into a coma and died. Her boss at her other job didn't pay her for a long time, and she says it's hard to find a good job where you don't need a car and you can stop every couple of hours to check in on your family. Our truck got taken by the bank after my Dad didn't work anymore. But she doesn't really need a car because she already rides my bike to work. Anyways, she says that if we get evicted it will ruin everything she fights for because we won't have a home, my Dad will have to go back into that hospital because she promised the Doctors she would keep him stable in our home. Also, she says that we would have to move to a different neighborhood where  the school rating is a 3!!!! I am getting straight A+'s and I'm on the Principals Honor List every quarter...My Mom says I'm the smartest person she knows...and she knows ACTUAL ROCKET SCIENTISTS!!!  She says education is our power and that I'm going to do AMAZING  things for this planet & mankind some day, I CANT GO TO A 3/10 RATED SCHOOL!!! And also, she doesn't have the time to take out or the money to find another home. My Mom says this house was sent from God and she'll never come upon one like this again. It's the only thing that makes her feel like before. I feel safe here. My Mom says my Dad feels safe here too and  we will be here for a long time ...so we planted a garden like we had before! We love this home and I'm trying to ask for help for my Mom so we can stay here forever. My Mom tried to raise money for us when my Dad first got sick but she said she can't ask people again ..so my friends Mom is helping me to ask with GoFundMe
Can you Please help??
Thank you for reading my story
David Rodriguez
Age 11

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Chanda Rodriguez
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Clovis, CA

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