I’m on this site with belief that help can come from the most unlikely places for my younger sister who is silently reaching her breaking point. She is an immigrant in a foreign land, struggling day and night to care for her sick husband and four children. She works three demanding jobs to make ends meet but the ends never do meet up .
Her husband’s health has been back and forth and he hasn’t worked in four years. He requires constant medical care, but due to her immigration status, she has no access to public healthcare. Every doctor’s appointment, prescription, and every treatment has to be paid for and that’s why she’s currently drowning in debt. What she earns from all three jobs goes straight to medical bills, leaving very little for food, rent, or stuff for the kids.
She’s fighting poverty and hopelessness. I live in another country and I help as much as I can, but it’s not enough. Her children are beginning to notice the stress and sadness that she tries so hard to hide. She’s slipping into depression and I fear that if she doesn’t get help soon, she’ll lose the strength to keep going.
She still dreams though. She has a vision of opening her own care agency, not only to better support her family and stop nine-to-fiving-and-extras but also as a path to obtaining permanent residency. With that status, she and her family will have access to free healthcare and some measure of stability. But right now, that dream looks far fetched
Reading this you might think “yeah…just another sob story” and it is. The difference is my sister is an amazing woman who has risen from tremendous loss and pain but is losing her will to fight. She needs to be reminded that kindness still exists and that she’s not alone.
She doesn’t know I’m doing this but at this point I would do anything legal and honest if it would change her life for good. Please, if you can, help me lift her up before she breaks completely. Her children need their mother whole and I don’t want to lose her like we lost our mother. She needs a reason to keep fighting. Your support could change their lives.
If you read to the end, thank you. Even if she doesn’t get all she needs, I’m happy that her story is out there and who knows, it might just inspire someone who doesn’t have it that bad.
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