Hello Potential Saviors

Like so many other deserving individuals on this site, I find myself in a desperate situation and have decided to see if I may receive help from this site.  Unlike others that seem to be so many in number, I am not in need due to COVID or personal disaster.  Rather, I am a giver who has just learned to say no and KNOW when that is a good thing and to stop putting myself in pain and jeopardy for others.  Two years ago I decided to sell my condo, buy an RV and go back to school to earn a degree in Psychology.  I took a personal loan of $10,000 to fix my condo and list.  However, as it seems to be a habit, fate had other plans and I ended up adopting my granddaughter and trying to get my daughter back on the right path in life.  Then soon too, my son hit a rough patch in his life and had to move into my home for a while.  Although they are both adults, I was raised that “you always help family out.”

Then last year, we discovered that my mother was having issues with memory and wasn’t taking care of her diabetes.  She ended up in the hospital with ketoacidosis, she had suffered a stroke as well and then was diagnosed with moderate vascular dementia.  Since I had semi-retired (preparing for full retirement and moving), our small family meeting to discuss my mother, led to my deciding to fully retire and take on the brunt of helping so that my sister and my mother’s partner could continue working as they more desperately needed to keep their jobs.  Here we are sixteen months later, my income cut in half and although I am at the final stage of waiting for my bankruptcy discharge, I am close to having to file bankruptcy again.  I am trying to find work at home options but am already at the point of having maxed out my credit cards, am now late on my mortgage payments and cannot do a refinance or home equity loan due to the bankruptcy not being discharged.  The only other option I have considered at this point is to sell my home and still buy that RV so I can pay off my debt and have some money.  This, however, isn’t an ideal situation for a 7 year old to be raised in.  Others may view that statement as incorrect but this child has been through enough trauma in her short life and I would like to keep it somewhat as stable as possible.

Thus, I find myself hearing about this website. So, I too, am here to seek a helping hand from the kind and helping hands that peruse this site.  I am asking for $35,000.  This would pay off my personal loan, my credit cards and allow me to finally finish the renovations that were started and never finished in my condo. I truly appreciate anyone who has taken the time to read my story and to possibly help out.  Bless all on here who also need help.   As our family motto these days go, “This too shall pass!” – hopefully with your help.

paypal.me/tzgoodin

Dear generous donors! I just want to thank you in advance.  I just found out that such a place as this existed where caring people can help others in need. I live on the island of Maui. The home of one of the most devastating wildfires in recent history. Everyone has been impacted by the turn of events. As you may know, our island’s economy is predicated by tourism. And after the tragic events, people who have never been to Maui were saying do not come to Maui. It has impacted business tremendously here. Slowly, it is beginning to get busy again. Earlier this year, I had to fly to Texas to take care of my mother who wasn’t in very good health and wasn’t in a very good living situation. I had a strong feeling that I needed to go see her, and two weeks from me getting on the plane to fly, she went into the ER.

I couldn’t get a straight answer from the people who were living with her in regards to her health. I would always get that she was doing fine. but when she went into the ER, I found out that she had a bad heart, and kidneys & a bunch of other things going on with her that wasn’t being told to me by anyone living there. The house was cluttered, there was a hole in the floor and the place was roach infested.

We spent a lot of money traveling home and getting mom situated only to run into incurring a lot of debt due to a slowed economy. It’s been quite challenging and I will be the first to say we find ourselves about $20,000 in the hole right now, working to fight our way back to just break even.

We just need to get everything back to being manageable again. We need $20,000 but really we appreciate whatever anyone can spare. God bless you all for being such generous and cheerful givers.

paypal.me/hayzeltongentry

Dear compassionate individual,

I am a 33yo female. Born and raised by my single mother, in the south side of Chicago. I play bass guitar. I am an artist. I rescue and rehabilitate reptiles. I love animals, music, gardening, plant medicine and philosophy and I have worked as a professional bartender for 14 years. I would love to learn carpentry, welding and hope to travel the world. I grew up in an unstable and dysfunctional family so, I have spent a good portion of my life alone. A bit of a loner, borderline autistic, creative and passionate nomad. I began working at 15yo and by junior year I dropped out and got my GED. At the age of 26, I moved to Denver, Colorado with my Dogs and less than a couple hundred dollars in cash. By 28yo, I made it to Oceanside, California. I had finally made a home for myself.

Unfortunately, I had a bad snowboarding fall which led to one injury after another. I had a rotated and fractured sacrum and ruptured psoas muscle putting me in a permanent state of “fight or flight” and constant pain. However, I continued working and going on about my life, completely unaware that I was in danger of losing myself.

By 2022, I was put on antidepressants, my absentee father died from intentional overdose, one of my 15yo pups was dying of lymphoma and my roommates and I were being evicted due to covid and hazardous living conditions. for 3 months, I didn’t have a stable home but, I was still working full time, caring for 6 reptiles and one senior dog in my unsustainable state. In February 2023, I was laid off, moved into an abandoned apartment and I was suffering from “failure to thrive”. for 8 months, I would remain there, desolate, desperate, determined to get a grip or find some impossible way to cope. Suddenly, on June 5th 2023, my rotated sacrum  finally released and I have been improving everyday since.

I packed up my dog and reptiles and drove back to Chicago. Currently, I am living in a closet in my mom’s basement. I have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia due to untreated physical trauma and referred to pain management and orthopedic specialist. however, I cannot receive treatment in Chicago with California state insurance. So after all that, I find myself right back where I started. Back in this place to tried so hard to escape from.

I hope to one day make it back to California and be reunited with my art work and reptile habitats from my storage unit. I’ve always dreamed of buying my mom a house. Maybe live on a farm, start a family, and a little animal sanctuary. I look back on my life and wonder; Were to odds stacked against me from the beginning? Or did I zig when I should have zagged? Regardless, I have gazed into that abyss and surrender but now, I am so grateful for the experiences that have made me who I am and to know that I still have so much more to offer. With this new perspective on life, I am thrilled to see what the future holds for me.

Today, I am receiving state disability benefits which is not enough to cover my monthly bills. I have about $10,000 in credit card debt and I desperately need a place to call home. I am not here necessarily asking for money. I’m looking for opportunities. I would travel anywhere for the right opportunity. A place to call home for me and my old dog. A chance to start again, to heal, to regain my confidence, rejoin society and give back.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Paypal.me/CrystalMooreColor

In 2008 I began my dream career to become a chef but it didn’t go as planned, school was expensive and finding a job was almost impossible for a college drop out. I began working laborious jobs like construction, landscaping, restaurants and cleaning, but no employer paid me fairly because they thought I was not a US Citizen. Working  12-18 hour days I looked for a change in my life so i enlisted in the Navy. Moved from California to my first duty station in Virginia then deployed to Afghanistan, got injured and recovered and deployed five times to Iraq the injuries just returned with a vengeance. Currently the the Department of Defense/Navy is going to medically separate me so I sold all my stuff and bought a sprinter van. But, everything to make it comfortably livable is so expensive I’m reaching out for help, all i have inside is a sleeping bag and some clothes.

I am embarrassed to ask for help but i have no other choice. I’m looking to get insulation, a heater, roof rack, water tank, and other essential things to be able to support myself safely inside.

My goal is to raise $15,000 to build it and also have some saved up for when the time comes for separation.

paypal.me/EnriqueE159