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Struggling with Debt After Grief and Caretaking of my Mom

Hola! Thank you for reading my request.

Five years ago my mom Jody passed away from breast cancer that had metastasized into her bones. Despite being put on hospice she bravely fought to heal herself through the pain. She lived for almost a year and a half, until it became too much and her heart stopped beating. My mom was my best friend. She always had my back and loved me so much. Her love was unconditional and that love has carried me through the last five years.

During her illness I worked part time to support her along with help from my brother Scott. I am grateful that I was able to do this. I found a person who lived near her to rent a room to me at a low price since I couldn’t afford regular rent on my paycheck. When I wasn’t at work, I was with my mom. I would show up early before work to help her as needed and would return to her after work, staying until 9PM. At that time I would ride my bicycle because I couldn’t afford a car. This was my daily schedule for over a year. I would even stay the night on the weekends. It was exhausting, but I knew that if she didn’t beat the cancer these would be my last memories.

It has been a long process of grief and healing.A year before her death my dad Bernardo and brothers girlfriend Vanessa also died. A year before that one of my best friends Cortney died. A year after my mom’s death, my cousin Tootsie died. Before her illness I was depressed for 17 years and had just started to get help when she was diagnosed with cancer. So, on top of my grief I was also trying desperately to heal my inner trauma.

I have continued to work part time jobs because full time work is difficult without an accredited college degree which I don’t possess. I have an old associates degree that is not accredited and the school is closed. I recently discovered this when I applied to attend college this autumn and was told none of my credits could be used. Because the part time job I had when my mom died was contract labor, I now owe the IRS just over $7,000. I struggle to pay the $150 per month I am required to pay. If I pay less than that the IRS has the legal right to garnish my wages. I am not asking for the full $7,000. Even if I could just be gifted $150, that would help me. I could buy a $72 buss pass next month instead of walking an hour each way to my current part time job and any odd jobs that come my way. Though I will gratefully accept as much as $7,000.

I imagine this is not the most tear inducing story you receive. My emotional pain is not as bad as it was. However, living week to week to buy food and pay rent is putting me in the negative. I am so tired and so frustrated. I am tired of being too poor to buy new underwear. I am tired of living in a house that doesn’t have running water so I have to bathe at the beach showers in my clothes. I want to be able to buy glasses that are not held together by bandaids. I want to go to college, study psychology and work in grief counseling. I will not let anything stop me. I am motivated and I am stronger than ever. The death of so many loved ones so close together taught me to enjoy life, to keep moving forward and be kind to others because I know that so many people suffer on so many different levels. I have felt extreme pain and I have survived. If you choose me as a recipient I will make sure to pay it forward. Thank you for considering me.

Peace and hugs, Leah

https://paypal.me/LOviedo

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Drowning in dept after husbunds sudden death

Hello, my name is Sabine and I can’t believe that I have to beg for financial assistance from complete but hopefully kind strangers.
You see my best friend and husband for the last 41 years passed away February 18th of this year of pneumonia complications. He got sick and died within 48 hours. If that is not bad enough, I am drowning in debt and here is why.

We have been self-employed since 1980 buying and selling horses. He did the buying and selling and I did all the office work. We never made a lot of money but it was his passion. He was now retired but a “good” friend of his ordered a specific horse, so my husband took a loan to buy it and get it to him. Needless to say, the good friend backed out. So now I am stuck with this $ 27,135.72 loan I can’t possibly pay back and board bills for a horse I can’t get rid of. I also have his funeral bill of $ 2,700.00 on my credit card.
I am 59 years old and I can’t find a job. Another hit in the gut came from the Canadian Government informing me that I do not qualify for a widows pension or death benefits. So now I have absolutely no income.
I have sold everything there is to sell. But all the things I held so dear, is worth pennies to strangers. I reached out to friends we helped over the years but all of a sudden everybody is so busy but they will get back to me shortly….never to be heard from again. So I am completely on my own, lonely and so very desperate. My sister managed to send me enough for 2 payments but she herself is on a small pension but I am forever grateful to her.
So this is at least part of my story and I thank you for reading and hoping you find it in your heart to help me out a little.

Thank you so very much

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A proper sendoff for those who deserved it but were deprived of it

This is request made with a heavy heart, all through out my parents’ lives it seemed as though life dealt them non-stop hardship. One example is: In the eighties, my mother had gotten into a car accident where a truck driver had tailgated her vehicle so badly that it launched her into a paddock and broke multiple of her ribs, my father at the time was a Pig farmer was dealing with a community attempting to shoot up his feed silos and mutilate stock, fast forward to 2006, my father is diagnosed with cancer and is dealing with the fact that he was had by a dodgy mortgage on his farm and my mother suffering from a stroke which left severe damage to her day to day functions. Three years later, my mother had major organ which had left her brain starved of oxygen and unknowingly lead to her developing dementia in later years. In 2011, my father had passed away and his death was not a quick or painless one, he suffered and that will forever be on my conscious, due to cold and borderline emotionless family members the funeral was a mere three days post his passing, we battled on for 5 more years and soon it came to my mother’s turn, she had been in nursing home for about ten months but she had passed away, a nursing home where they had been abusing and neglecting the residents, due to their negligence, she met her end drowning in her own bodily fluids and the same treatment had happened with her funeral, so here I am, I ask $20 000 to be able to fund a proper service for my late parents on my terms and with the people who truly cared about them and secondly take them back to their homeland of Germany to which they migrated from in 1960. Hopefully, you, the reader can empathise with my cause and help out, even if it’s slightly, every little bit will help in the long run towards the ultimate goal. I sincerely thank you for your time in reading this and hope that you find my cause worthy to help out as these are people who most definitely deserve a last bit of solace.

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I’m Alone

Hello. My name is Aidan. I don’t usually use things like this, I’m a very strong-willed, strong-minded individual. But I feel broken at the moment. I’ve just lost my father and my best friend in the span of little under two weeks. I only had those two people in my life along with my girlfriend, making it a grand total of three.

I’ve had to quit my job to resume looking after & caring for my grandmother, who’s in a seriously depressive state after the death of her son (my father.) No shit. I can’t blame her, I’ve lost a father – but that was her only son. She hasn’t got long left, and no child should ever, ever outlive their parent.

Why am I posting here? Because all of my savings have gone into helping out the rest of the family during this difficult time, funeral costs, ferrying relatives over to attend said funeral, tax costs, etcetera. I need money right now, and I can’t bring myself to gather the mental capacity to work.

 

I’m asking for ten thousand dollars. $10,000. I need a small loan (no Trump pun intended) in order to get back on my feet when all this is said and done. My PayPal is:

paypal.me/Froobs

 

I’ll be waiting for the payment to come in, but I’m not expecting anything. I am exceptionally aware of the greed that plagues society in this day & age, not to mention the scatter of posts being thrown up on this site day in, day out. Something my Dad used to say was ‘You’re only as strong as the mask you put on’, something he got from an old Chinese proverb whilst travelling there. He always had funny quirks & sayings such as that. I’m lost without him. I’m without words.

Thank you for your help, strangers, if you’re able to provide me with any. I appreciate every single one of you. I’m not religious personally, but whatever deity is up there, I hope he/she/it/they bless you. Time on this planet is short, life’s too simple and quick to dwell on things.

 

Live well, enjoy yourselves. Thank you.

 

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2 dying family members! Cancer sucks

Hello I am the niece and the cousin to the two family members in my family dying from cancer. With all the scams going on I am trying to raise money through a raffle and silent auction. Tougher than I thought.

Joe is 38yo Cousin married 16 years and 6 young kids he has been diagnosed with colon and liver cancer twice a year apart. Surgery we thought got it all, Thanksgiving 2018 we got the horrific news that it came back with a vengeance his markers have doubled in 1.5 months. We are looking at weeks to a few months on chemo. No more surgeries to save his life. Has been an accountant for 18 years and still trying to work the best he can as he’s the sole provider for the family. It’s only a matter of time.

Nathan 53yo Uncle married 18 years 2 daughters has had 22 mini strokes since September 2018. We recently had him transferred to the medical center. Since being in the hospital 5 months and moved from suburbs to medical center as of December 31 his birthday. We have also found out that he has a tumor on the outside of heart wall grew into a major artery, brain, drenal glands and spine so cancer with Metz. This type of cancer is a lymphoma that is very silent and found during autopsies. He’s completely confused, feeding tube, very thin and frail looks much older since 5 months in the hospital has not walked since admission. He’s worked for an oil company over 20 years. He’s currently on long term disability his wife has taken Fmla to be with her husband daily since learning of the cancer recently.

The money we raise will be split between both families for funeral expenses, hospital bills, and the kids. My cousins 6 kids are home schooled since being in school.  The uncles girls are in college that he was helping with tuition, form and food expenses. Both girls have had to drop college at this time to spend days with dad and looking for work to help my aunt as she’s not getting paid while on fmla. Our family has given to help pay parking, providing meals and doing as much as we can.

I have only been able to raise 1025.00 through raffle in 3 months. I saw this and Im skeptical as I’ve never had to do this and I have been in the medical field 28 years and see many scams. I can only hope that we still have a world of kindness without people thinking I’m asking for help for selfish purposes. I’m a giver not a taker. I’ve helped many in my lifetime and never asked for anything in return. We are a very close family, but can only do so much as we have our own families and bills.

My goal was $40,000 to give each family $20,000. Whatever we raise will be a blessing and much appreciated. Prayers are more powerful than money and we can wish this was a nightmare.

Thank you for reading Shanna

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Grandma’s final days:( and family hardship

Hi, my name is Rebecca. What I’m asking for today is not something I have ever done. My family and I are very simple family, we always make the best of what we have. Here’s our story. In may of 2018 my family fell on some very very hard times. We lost our home,I lost my job, and we were forced to relocate with family.I am currently working as an independent contractor but work is slow. We live with my sister and brother-in-law.my brother-in-law was diagnosed with cancer in his urinary tract.he is currently undergoing treatment to rid him of the cancer fingers crossed. His mother whom is also in the home is on her deathbed. She is in hospice care we gave her round-the-clock attention to make sure that she is comfortable and not in pain.she is 82 and she has lived a very wonderful life.when she does go which we have very little time with her we would like to be able to do everything properly and we don’t have the means to do so. We also struggle with other things on top of this. There is a total of 5 children in the home, four mine and one is my sisters. So as you can imagine with not alot of income and that many mouths to feed it’s a little rough at times.I’m writing this because we’re looking for a hand up and we are most definitely a family that will pay it forward. This is one of the values I have always instilled in my children.and bless their little hearts everytime they see someone on the streets asking for money they give it to them. I hope to whoever is reading this that you’ll find it in your heart to help a little even a dollar at a time helps. We want you put Grandma to rest properly and have a little breathing room for ourselves as well.and also I would love if everyone could say prayers for my eldest daughter who recently embarked on the journey of becoming a Marine and she is currently in boot camp.so all of that being said if you can’t donate which I understand not everyone can but even a prayer would be much appreciated. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this and have a most blessed day.
Rebecca and family
https://www.paypal.me/icebox12000