Hello Im
writing to you to ask for help monetarily. My husband has stage 4 Prostate Cancer and Stage 4 Bone Cancer. It’s called Non Castrative Metastatic Cancer and it is a death sentence. He just turned 56. I am 49, about to turn 50. We are older parents with younger kiddos. Son Benjamin is 15 and troubled due to his dads illness and my daughter Zoe who just turned 14 and is also having difficulties coping. We are on year 5 of Kyle’s diagnosis and he’s in the last trial through UMMC. We live 75 miles from his oncologist at University of Maryland Medical Center. He is rapidly declining. Because he’s on a trial, Hospice cannot help. All my life and my husbands life we have worked. June 2022 was my last day of working because my son was out of control with his emotions and tried to take his own life. I had to leave my job because he didn’t have any parental Support. He is getting SSDI as do my children but without another income, we are severely struggling. We are blessed that we have a home that was willed to my husband. But we only get $3k a month for a family of 4. I’m extremely ADHD so I also applied for disability, which I was instructed too by the local Commission on Aging. So we are down a salary of $45k a year. Our car broke down, our HVAC went out. Boy when it rains it pours. Back in winter of 2022, we had to commit our son to a mental hospital for 6 weeks. This was after he wanted to take his own life by overdosing on drugs. And this stuff goes in the school bathrooms. We have had severe difficulty getting ahead, can’t save at all because there’s always something going on that requires money. Money we do not have. We now have state insurance and it’s great but the dental stinks. I have over $15 k worth of dental work that needs done. That’s really just the beginning. Our home is starting to deteriorate because my handyman husband can no longer do any laborious work. Hyper inflation is killing us with food costs and such. I eventually plan on going back to work but I’m caretaking for my husband as well as taking my son to and from psychology appointments to drug abuse therapy. We are having difficulties making ends meet, keeping ourselves healthy, our house falling into disrepair, our vehicle in the shop. He had to take the last of his 401K money so that we had a vehicle that was safe and was/is reliable. I suffer from ADHD and Depression. My son suffers the same. We were turned down for assistance locally for food stamps because we own a house. How awful is that? I do want to get back into the workforce eventually but I am stuck because I have to run my husband to Baltimore frequently as well the running for my son’s appointments. Every month we are in the red via our bank account. Bar none this is a hellish nightmare I would not wish upon my worst enemy. We can’t travel for fun ( I know that’s a luxury, but I think too with families that are in a similar situation need to get their families out and do fun things or take a trip as it is good for making memories and alleviate some of the stresses that we cope with on a daily basis). We are unable to take our dog to the vets. It’s just awful. We are extremely down on our luck with all of this going on. I struggle daily to get myself up just to get kiddos ready for school. We desperately need help. I desperately need help to be able to help my kiddos, my husband, my entire family unit
Thank You kindly for letting me tell my story and praying that we can get some help, some normalcy and some peace. God Bless
Kindest Regards,
Amy C Haught
240-469-9810
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