Thank you for taking a few moments to learn about my current hardship. I really enjoy helping others and right now, I’m the one who needs all the help I can get.
In the past six years, I went from being an alcoholic with stage-4 cirrhosis of the liver and given only months to live without a transplant, being stuck in a nursing home for a year, losing the love of my life to liver failure (he was a fellow drinker), and struggles with being unhoused to better health, six years of sobriety, homeownership, and enjoying single motherhood and cat rescue and fostering. Things got a little messy last year after I broke my hip.
Some of the meds I take for my sick liver have weakened my bones. I didn’t know this until shortly before breaking my hip last June. I had been barely scraping by on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and was seeking to find a part-time job so I could eventually go back full-time if I felt strong enough to handle a regular work week. As I was planning a camping trip with my sister and my young daughter, I fell backwards down eight steps in my home breaking my hip in three places and scraping the skin and other tissue off my shin and down to my bone. I lost so much blood before the paramedics arrived, I nearly bled out in my own home. I had several pints of blood at the Emergency Department.
I spent the entire summer hospitalized for my situation. I started finding fraudulent charges on my credit cards and coming from my bank account when I finally had the chance to go through my mail. So I am getting ready to freeze my credit and try to fix things. I’ve had to change my debit card twice in the past year.
Right now, I am on a forbearance plan with my bank. I will have to pay things back if they can’t tack things onto my loan at the end. Thanks to insurance and interest, my mortgage has gone up more than $120 since I bought my house! I’m constrained with refinancing due to a government grant I used to get my house.
I am hoping to get my mortgage covered. I need to pay for my ground rent, too, and a few other things. I need a lot of help, but right now, $8-10k would bail me out of my immediate situation and allow me to actually sleep at night again.
Sadly, I can’t even use my only bathroom in my house because I can’t safely use my stairs where I nearly died. I am trying to get help with that, but I have had extras due to having to use a bedside commode and my kitchen sink to use the restroom and wash up. It’s dehumanizing.
Thank you for reading this. I’m trying to pick myself up and get my life on track. Fellow humans that help others sometimes need help, too. I appreciate any help I can get.