I never thought this was gonna be my story or ever see myself writing a help me please donation request!!! But this is life and these are the times that are among us. Yes I’m a single mother of 3….Yes I had a good paying job (keyword Had)….Yes I have a house (renting, don’t own)….But an unexpected change of February 2023, uprooted my life and sent me spiraling into survival mode.
My oldest son, great kid, did everything academically that I asked of him, last year of high school got him a Camaro (his dream car), he was coming on from work (he’s a server) and a man fell asleep at the wheel of his car from working a double and smashed into my son who was severely injured. So I had to take off of work on family leave, my company family leave last 3 months including any extensions. My son’s injuries surpassed 3 months of 4 surgeries and rehabilitation. So my leave exhausted and I can’t leave my son so the job terminated me. So I was living off my savings because we all know you can’t get unemployment if your terminated. I fought for unemployment through appeal & they denied me. Long story short savings have depleted. I paid up my rent til after Xmas with the last of my savings but my utilities, are about to get turned off, electric/heating bill is out of this world, they said they wasn’t able to get someone to come read my meter and when they finally did they said I was on the wrong rate plan and my usual $700 bill (its light & heat together) is Now a whopping $9000, they gave me a $1000 a month payment plan but I just can’t do it, there’s no money coming in, I’m looking for another job but I can’t wait for that and next month I can’t afford the payment plan so we will be in the dark cuz I can’t borrow anymore, everyone is struggling and I can’t even pay people back so what’s the point. Help Please!!!