I really need your help ….. I have been struggling financially for the last 4 years after losing a job with a decent income because of an illness, depression, anxiety and consequent actions that affected my job while I was dealing with symptoms that turned out to be Multiple Sclerosis. It actually took about a year and a half for the correct diagnosis. After losing partial vision in my left eye, my doctor sent me to get an MRI and a Spinal Tap. That got me diagnosed. In the meantime, I’d lost lots of time from work and unfortunately, lost the confidence of the HR department that I could adequately do my job. Before I could even file for FMLA, I was fired. I was denied unemployment for “cause.” My cause was failure to record 180 hours of comp time/overtime, which they deemed to be a fraudulent time report. Total garbage…. They just wanted to get rid of me and move on. I don’t regret working the extra hours to attempt to keep up with my work missed while I was out sick. Customers were counting on me, and I didn’t like letting them down due to my personal problems.
Since then, I’ve worked as a temp at a much lower salary and tried to fill in the gap by doing DoorDash and UberEats deliveries every evening after work and every day on the weekends but I am SO tired….and so tired of struggling for years trying to push on, working all day then doing food deliveries until 9 o’clock at night, then it still isn’t enough. It’s so frustrating to be working so hard and still not have enough money to pay for even minor medications like acid reflux, all the way up to medications for asthma, high blood pressure, and the disease modifying medication for MS. Like so many others, I have to decide whether to buy medication, or pay bills.
I am honestly doing my best to dig out of the mountain of financial difficulty. My water was turned off on Wednesday, and I had to spin the “pick-a-sister wheel” to call and ask for help, knowing that they are both also struggling. My electric service was “subject” to disconnection on the May 24th notice. I called them a week ago and was denied a payment arrangement because I did not keep a previous payment arrangement. I’m sure it was one of the times that I just did not have the money and had to pay for something else. I want to call them on Tuesday to see if they will let me pay the bill by the end of the day, by which time I am hoping to get some donations to keep my electricity on. That’s all I know to do. Living like this is really hard on my flesh, even though God says that we can bear it. My car insurance is past due as of May 2th, and I need that to be able to continue to do deliveries.
The shortage of funds just snowballed…. The deficit getting bigger and bigger, as I have sometimes had to use my credit cards to pay water, electric, gas for my car, soap, toilet paper, dog food, and groceries. No more charging, though, as they are maxed out.
Brief therapy was helpful in taking a look at some things that I could do differently, and it did led me to realize that I will have to move out of my apartment and rent a room from someone until I can get into a better situation where my expenses are lowered so that I can use the money I am earning to pay bills and eliminate debt. Unfortunately, I had to give 60 days’ notice to my landlord, so I’m responsible for continuing to pay $1,200 a month for June and July rent. I sought help with June rent from the Salvation Army, but they could only give me $200 towards my rent, and they can only help me once per year. I can get help with rent or with utilities, but not both. I nearly burst into tears. I decided to take the rent help. I don’t know what else I’m supposed to do. There are no more hours I can spare away from sleeping in order to make more deliveries.
I sought out the help of the food bank for me and my dogs. I am very grateful for receiving that help. I have always been a humble person, but being this destitute is humbling on another level. I am really trying to keep a good perspective on my situation, but it’s just so much to mentally take in. I have no more lifelines to get any help and am at the end of the line with no more moves to make except to come here for help.
If you would please, please, please help me raise about $4,000, I could catch up my past due electric bill, water bill, car insurance, remainder of June rent, July rent, and pay the deposit to get moved out of my apartment and into a rented room. I would be eternally grateful for any help from kindhearted people here. Any donation…..big or small would be a blessing so that I can continue to make deliveries to earn money by working for it ….. I appreciate each of you reading through my situation and allowing me the opportunity to make my plea. Have a great day!
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