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I am a wife, mother of 4, a dog mom of 4, a Medical Assistant, and a woman with quite a bit of pride.
At the beginning of the year I experienced an unexpected medical emergency that left all of the arteries in my leg COMPLETELY BLOCKED! I was admitted to the hospital where I had 9 procedures in less than 14 days. The issue was that all of those procedures I had failed to restore blood flow to my leg. I have been fighting to keep my leg attached to my body ever since. I was left unable to work and had to collect unemployment just before the pandemic shut everything down. My husband was still a student at the time, but life slowing down gave us a little time to budget our savings in order to pay rent and bills. My husband has now graduated school and got a part time temp job doing COVID testing. I just had my 14th procedure this year to restore flow to my leg and PRAISE GOD it seems to be working.
Unfortunately, I still cannot return to work and our savings has run
dry. We have been receiving assistance in the form of SNAP, and my
husband brings in some money but it’s not enough to cover our bills.
Don’t get me wrong, we have wanted for NOTHING during this pandemic,
and I know we have been blessed beyond measure. If it was just me, or
my husband and myself, I would just tough it out. However, my kids
can’t survive without lights and WiFi for school. I need my car to go
back and forth to doctors appointments, my husband needs gas for his
vehicle to get to work, and we need insurance to be street legal.
So I am swallowing the 2 ounces of pride I have left, humbling
myself, and asking for people to consider donating a little bit of
money to float us until we get back on our feet. I promise we won’t
use the money to finance a trip to Disney, or go on vacation, or buy a
PS5. We just need to pay bills. We won’t even use the money to rebuild
our savings because we can do that on our own time. We just need to
pay bills. These aren’t medical bills from my hospitalizations. I have
insurance thru my job still (thank God) and I will deal with those
later. These are household bills. I know that there’s a whole Pandemic
and that things are tough all over but any little bit will help if the
spirit so moves you.
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