Dire Need: Single Father of 3 Kids Needs Your Help

Here's a story of needs. Please help him

"I got laid off in Jan. and my bills are piling up. I am a single father raising 3 kids on my own. I paid up my rent ’til May and now it’s Sept. I have been looking for work every single day and nothing has come up. I have been so stressed about my phone getting shut off and potential employers won’t be able to contact me. Not to mention my rent. If I get evicted, my children and I will be out on the streets. If that happens, the kids will have to go back to their abusive mother who’s never home and I really don’t want them to have to deal with her again. I now have a dish washing job, but I’m so far behind on everything, I won’t be able to catch up. My kids need things for school, my laundry’s piling up while things I need to run my home is dwindling. I am in dire straights and really need the help. $2,500.00 should get be by. Please help…I don’t know what else to do."

Contact this father directly: dnl7376@yahoo.com

Help Solve This Man's Money Issues: Desperate to Pay Doctor Bills

Here is a story of need, a heartbreaking story that will make you become a good Samaritan. Help this man pay his bill

"I am a 40 year old (will be in November) single white man, no children, no family of my own - just a few aunts and uncles scattered here and there. I have always tried to be a caregiver to my elderly aunts and uncles, I have stayed in my hometown because I know that If I left, they wouldn't have anybody to check up on them or get them things from town when they can't get out themselves. One of the aunts I try to take care of daily (2 sisters who live together) has been paranoid schizophrenic all her life, and I am the only family member who can and does help take care of her. They are the only reason I stay in this town. I have begun suffering problems of my own over the last few years - I have a chronic compression fracture in my lower back, and have been in active pain management because of it for the last 5 years.

I have just recently (in the last two years) begun to suffer from extremely high blood pressure and abnormally fast pulse rate. It is all I can do sometimes to get up and take care of myself each day - but I still try to take care of these two aunts every day as well. ( they are 76, and 68 years old). My problems have gotten me to the point where I can 't hold a job - I can't stay vertical enough hours of the day to go to work. I left my last job in May, because I just couldn't work 10 hour shifts anymore. I have tried at every available place I can here in my town - and every time I talk to Human resources, everything is just wonderfully peachy until they find out I have health problems. And the minute they find out I am in Pain Management it is a definite "Sorry - you wouldn't be a good fit here" situation. I have applied for disability but I was of course denied -because I can do "desk work" (i have been in the IT industry for all of my career - and that doesn't require any lifting. But the places won't hire me - even for non lifting jobs, because I am a liability that they are afraid they could get stuck with if I hurt myself while working. Basically I'm a risk they don't want to take. I don't know what else to do. I have consistently applied at EVERY job in my town - and they all say the same thing. But I can't afford to just pick up and leave my town, because my aunts wouldn't have anybody to take care of them.

So I am just stuck. And I now have about $2000 worth of Doctor Bills because of the testing I had to do with a cardiologist because of the High Blood Pressure and Tachycardia problems I have begun experiencing of the last two year. I don't know how long it will take me to appeal my disability - but I have to try to do that now, and of course, I don't qualify for any welfare assistance or anything like that because I'm a young white man in my prime. I should be able to just do anything - but I assure you I cannot. So as I continue to try to find a job every day-(the WIN Job center is getting tired of seeing me in there almost daily) and take care of my family - I have just used everything I spent the last 25 years of my life working for. I am hoping that something will become available by Christmas, if I can just hold in until then- but I'm not going to make it past the next couple of weeks if I don't get help from somewhere. I have always tried to be a compassionate and charitable person - and when I was working I regularly gave to charities. But now I am at the point to where I need someone to help me. I have gone past the point of being ashamed and embarrassed by my situation - I am almost at the point to where I'll have nothing left to lose. So that is why I am turing to the internet - the only place where I know more people than I do outside my front door, and asking humbly for help. I'm not ready to leave everything I have in my apartment and go start sleeping in a cardboard box in the alley - but that's where I'm headed if I can't find someone who cares enough to help me out. I'll take anything I can possibly get - but my main concern is the $2000 medical bill for my heart tests.

I am working almost 20 hours a day online as a "mechanical turk" on Amazon, doing "Human Intelligence Tasks" - like transcribing Audio and video for $10- $15 per job to make enough to keep the rent paid and the lights on. I only eat once a day, when I can afford to - but I can live a little without food as long as I have somewhere to stay and stay cool. I have always tried to be compassionate and giving, and I just hope that there is somebody out there who feels the same way, who can help me in this most difficult time. I don't qualify for public assistance because I don't have kids, and I'm just not the right type of person to be needy enough, I guess. I have worked every day of my life since I was 15 up until may of this year. And now that that I'm having health issues, it's like -"Oh, well, thank you for all you did, but we don't want to help you out anymore because you aren't important enough for us to waste our time on. We'll hire the new healthy young people to do your job and you can just go fade off into wherever, we don't care, and don't bother us anymore." I really hope that there is someone out there who feels like I am not a waste of space. Because if there isn't then I don't know what I'll do next.

I know that I am not begging for help for my child or anything (because I don't have children) but I don't think that I should be treated as worthless. So please, somebody, help me. If there is any God in this world who can hear my prayers, I hope that he will hear mine right now - because otherwise, there won't be any use to trying to keep on going every day. It'll be time to give up. Please, somebody, hear me. I have a Paypal account at Terry_Woodson@msn.com I just hope that someone who reads this will care enough to help. Because I feel like I have been abandoned by everyone, and I'm getting to the point to where I'm losing my faith in God and in Humanity."

Paypal Account is at: Terry_Woodson@msn.com

Disabled Single Mother: Here's Amanda's Story of Financial Needs

Firstly I wanted to Thank you for reading my message -

This is very hard for me to do because I don't like asking for help and I have always tried to manage with what I have but my circumstances changed so much I can't cope anymore - I am a single parent with 3 children I am also disabled and cannot work due to my poor health. I started working at the age of 13 and never missed any days off from being ill If I got a cold I would just get on with it, I used to run for the county championships, Ballet and cycling for miles everyday then my life change. ..

I got home after a day's work and ran up the stairs but when I got to the top of the stairs I lost my footing and fell from the top step to the bottom I screamed and my son's came running, ( you have to know that I don't like to make a fuss ) they helped me up to my bedroom where I lay all night in pain, in the morning I went to my doctors and he said he thought I had a bulging disc and bruising across my lower back he gave me some pain killers and anti-inflam tablets and I went home. Over the next few years I carried on with work but would find at the end of the day my back was hurting more and more so I kept going back to the doctors about it he kept saying the same thing and like a fool I listened thinking he knew what he was talking about .... Almost four years after my accident I had had enough I was missing days at work because of the pain and my children were having to help me more and more around the house and I also had to start using a walking stick, anyway I went to see someone else and as soon as I told her why I was seeing her she asked me " Have you ever had a scan or x-ray on your back ?? " I said no and explained that the other doctor didn't think it was necessary, a week later I had an M.R.I and had to wait 3 weeks for the results. I received a phone call from the doctor and she told me I had a slipped disc which was pushing onto my nerves in my legs and because it had been left for so long I also had the on-set of Osteoarthritis in my spine. Over the next 5 years I went to see different surgeons and specialists but they all said there was nothing they could do and I would have to live on pain killers for the rest of my life - I was in my late 20's so it came as a massive blow to me. Some time passed and I thought maybe there is something they could do at a different hospital so I ask my doctor for a referral and waited for my appointment, While I was at that appointment the specialist said he could try injecting a numbing liquid into my spine to numb the nerves so the pain would stop I was willing to try anything I could to fix this problem so I was booked in for this procedure. There was a 50/50 chance of it working if you had hurt your back with the time period of 6 months so because my Injury was over 5 years before I wasn't holding my breath. I was right not to because it didn't work, all it did do is hurt a lot because they didn't numb the area first !!!

I had to get use to my life now no more cycling or running because just walking hurt like mad ... 2 years after I had the injection into my spine I was out in my local town when I suddenly felt very faint and my heart was pounding out my chest the next thing I remember I woke up in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, I saw a heart specialist and he told me I had had an S.V.T which means Sub - Ventricular Tachycardia which means my heart pumps so fast it hasn't got time to pump the blood around my body causing me to pass out without any warning. I was given some tablets to help the palpitations ( I should of been given Beater Blockers but due to my asthma I can't ) I thought what else could this world throw at me - First my bad back then my on-going heart problem so I walked less and less because I was always feeling faint ... Just as I sort of got use to feeling like this I started getting really agonising pains all over my body, I thought maybe it was linked to my bad back and maybe I had been sitting or lying in the wrong position but it just got worse - Once again I went to the doctors and she sent me to the hospital for x-rays in my knee's ( which is where the most pain was at that time ) but they came back clear, I was living on loads of pain killers everyday just to cope with getting out of bed but some days even that was to hard for me to do, My children became my carers and I thought I was going mad because the pain was so bad the only way I can describe it to you is If you could Imagine the centre of your thigh bone being on fire and feeling like someone was twisting the bone and trying to pull my leg off, I was crying myself to sleep everynight and my pain meds increased every few months - I did a lot of searching on the Internet for answers but it kept pointing my problems to " Fibromyalgia " which I had never heard of before so I did more research and as I read it it was like reading about myself.. I went to the doctors with all this Information to ask if I could have this and after she read everything and passed it to one of her doctor friends they came back and said yes I had that aswell. It is a chronic pain disorder, I live with constant pain all over my body- Some days I can't use my hands other days I can't walk anywhere so I have a wheelchair .. I am on morphine on a hourly basis now and hundreds of other tablets ( I can give names of them and dosage if wanting to know more ) ..

The reason I am asking for help now is because I can't cope anymore - I am stuck in my house unable to get out anywhere, my kids do everything for me and go shopping after school - I was turned down for disability living allowance because they said because I could sit in a chair I could cook a meal - What they fail to see is when I'm sitting in the chair I can't bend down to put anything in the oven I can't remember the last hot meal I ate my children have learnt to cook for themselves. I am on Employment and support allowance but can only just afford food and bills...

I don't want sympathy for what I deal with but I would love a mobility scooter so I can get out the house to do the food shopping or so I can take the boys out for the day - I would love to take them away on holiday but can't afford that either so If anybody can help me and my family it would mean the world to me and my boys - I'm all they have there father walked out on me before my accident and he hasn't bothered with them since and he doesn't pay the CSA because they can't find him. I was looking after myself and my boys, I paid my way but then it all changed - Completely out of my hands ...

Please please please help us :) :)

Kind Regards

Petals

Pregnant, Homeless and Ashamed: Can you help?

Here is a story of great needs: "On Friday, March 26, 2010 12:28:44 AM UTC, eileen wrote: Hello. I am single, 5 months pregnant and was just evicted from my home. I am working full time, and I save money whenever possible, but I fell behind in my payments a couple of months ago when my car broke down. I had to use almost a whole month's pay to fix it, but I no choice because I needed a way to get to work to keep my job. My landlord worked with me for a couple of months, but he is also having trouble making ends meet. He had other people interested in renting my apartment, so he said he couldn't help me anymore. I am now sleeping in my car and washing up at work. I do not mind for myself, but I am concerned for my baby. I do not feel safe in the car or in the local shelter. I am also worried that since I don't have a kitchen to prepare food any more, I am not able to eat as healthy as I should for the baby. I applied for the Women, Infants & Children program in my state, and for food stamps, and those programs are wonderful, but without a refrigerator and stove, I can't benefit from many of the healthy food options that they provide. I also applied for housing assistance, but the waiting list in my area is extremely long. I am so ashamed to ask perfect strangers for help. I pray every day to find safe, affordable housing near my work. I am saving the best I can for first month, last month and a security deposit. I think that one of my prayers was answered when I found this website. If you can find it in your heart to help, any amount would be a blessing. When I am back on my feet, I promise that I will return it to you or pay it forward to another needy person; which ever you would prefer. Thank you for taking the time to read this. Bless You"

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