Would Like to Help
Posted in Resources over 2 years ago, 2 replies
Let me know if there is anything that I can do to help.
submitted by Troy in Radford, Va
Let me know if there is anything that I can do to help.
Hello there my name is Amy Hernandez and I live in King, NC with my 2 children, one of which is disabled, and I am pleading my message to you to ask for help and praying that you will take me very seriously and have the most deepest compassion, understanding, and ability to try to relate to our situation as I am being completely honest.
I too am disabled and have bipolar and depression as well as chronic pain in my back and neck and am a single and struggling mom and need help and have no support at all from anywhere. My parents died a long time ago as did 2 of my siblings and all the family I have left will no longer talk to me as I married a Hispanic and they are very racist, unfortunately.
My story probably is not that much different from any of the many others and you are most likely wondering why I am asking you for help, but I did want to write you as I figured you would think I am just trying to con you as many would I guess, but I decided to anyway, in hopes you would believe me. and just ask if maybe you could help us somehow.
I am a single mom raising my girls here in King NC, totally alone and on my own on a mere SSI check and some child support here and there (lately it has been pretty constant/sometimes not). SSI is only 600.00 a month for my child and sometimes the child support comes in and ONLY sometimes and that is 240.00 a month. I am trying my hardest to also get disability and now have a lawyer to help me as I keep getting denied. Anyways, one of my girls has multiple disabilities or as I rather call them, “challenges”. She is 16 years old and has ADHD, a pretty severe developmental delay as well as a significant learning disability. The problems she faces are fairly common, it’s our quality of life and it is extremely low and very sad. I worry so much about and the worries have become more like horribly long nightmares. To make a very long story short, our lives are only despair, suffering, and dire poverty. What I feel right now is inhumane suffering and pain of poverty and not to mention at times we literally gone hungry and without most of the very basic human needs such as clothing, personal hygiene products, and the like. Most of the time we have no toilet paper even and right now we need DIRELY a stackable washer and dryer in the apartment we live in. The laundromat is killing me and I dont go but every 3/4 weeks and with little clothes, that is making it very hard.
My girls are good and deserving and it literally depresses me because I can not find a job and we live on my daughter’s disability and NEVER, EVER do I have an extra even dollar. Right now, my car insurance is due in June and it is 400.00 because of a wreck I had in 2007 that almost took me out. I have no way in the world to pay the car insurance and it is really getting to me.
I am bipolar and have manic depression anyway and the stress of knowing that I will literally loose my car if I don’t maintain the insurance. I am begging you for help. I have no one to lean on, no where to turn, and it’s just me and them only. I have no family and I am broke. We drive a clunker for real that is a Ford Taurus and it is eating me alive in gas cause it needs work like oil change, plugs, filters, etc. I can't even afford gas for it or an oil change especially tires etc that it also desperately needs. I also have to make monthly payments on it along with paying rent, light, phone, internet, cable, and extra food every month. Not to mention several other bills that I have to always "rob Peter to pay Paul". Please don’t ignore my plea. Please in the name of God Almighty, can you please help us?
Daily living is very difficult for us and you can not begin to imagine what it is like living in this constant hell that we have to call life. Most days I do not even want to get up and wish I had not even woke up but its my kids that keep me here. I so strongly feel that I was put on this earth only to suffer or that I have targeted by some sort of devilish spell. The life that we live isn't really a life, its a day to day never ending torture. I am deeply stricken with horrible depression, just last year after literally dozens of medications was also diagnosed with being bi polar and no matter what they put me on, my family situation and poverty keeps me down. I hope that you can understand that. Just getting up in the morning, showering, getting dressed, and greeting even the most beautiful day, for me, is an enormous task and I feel so miserable and feel that I am a total failure. Maybe you can relate to my whining I don’t mean to do that, just trying to keep it real.
My kids dad basically left us without anything at all a while back and he obviously does not care at all as he never helps me and most of the time dont pay support either. At this time our low fixed income barely affords us the ability to meet the every-month bills like rent, light, phone, etc, etc, you know the basics. I have a piece of crap car that really I am a bit embarrassed of, don’t get me wrong, I am grateful for it, but I am 44 years of age and have nothing at all in my life to show for it.
Many things that so many people take for granted, for my girls is a huge deal. Now I will cry along with type to you as this is a very tender spot for me really and truly I can not be any more real with you as I am being. My ten year old and sixteen year old (disabled child) are both in school and do well, and are just the very threading of my heart. They are great girls, very honest, very hard working, and very deserving of a lot more than I am able to give them; it is in this area that I call out to you for help. Not once have they gone during the summer and gotten all new clothes, shoes, and supplies. We NEVER have a dollar, not one. They love pizza, burgers, even red bulls but we never can have any of them as we never have any money at all and I just really need a break.
My kids have trips that they miss, I NEVER can get their pictures, and amusement parks, circus, fairs, skating, movies, and the like; like I said before is a huge deal for them. My dream has always been to provide for them but also be able to let them be kids, normal kids, like their friends. Clothing is another issue for them. For the elder in high school, much more so and the ten year old is obese and for her it is equally a big deal as her size, as you may well already know, is hard to find, and when I do come across her size, I could not afford not even one single item.
During the summers of my poor youth I will tell you that despite poverty in my own family growing up, my mom always somehow always somehow took us and got us new school clothing and I can not do that at all and I feel like a failure. I hate myself so much sometimes even though I know that the economy is partly to blame too. I want a nicer car so that we can have it for a long time and not have something tear up everyday like the one we have is basically worn out and I am throwing away good money on it.
Please don't just sweep me and my kids under the rug and ignore us, can you help us? God truly bless you for what you do for folks and I hope you will help us. I am so tired of struggling and it hurts me so deeply to see my kids come home crying because the rich kids make fun of their clothes and stuff. What so many people take for granted in this world to us is literally treasures. The ability to go to the grocery store and buy food, real food, not the cheap stuff that keeps us unhealthy and my ten year old obese or being able to go to the movies now and then but never, ever get to. The fun of going during the summer months to some amusement parks to have some fun, instead of having to rake and scrape just to get by from one month to the next. I feel like God has just abandoned me and my kids and while all other families go out and buy their children new school clothing and shoes that never cost under 100.00 for new school year, then go out and buy them the current, newest, and best clothing all while we sit here unable to afford even yard sale or Goodwill. My girls are missing out on life and that makes me feel so, so, so horrible, worthless, and like an ant, an animal, unworthy to even live and actually makes me want to just kill myself but I love them too much
My kids don’t ask for anything and are missing out on all good things in life. They know that even if they beg they will not get anything new as they know very well we have no money. We all live like un humans, like animals, not being able to even go to the grocery store and buy food like we really like, just the very basics that we can afford as we have to ensure we can make it all month long. My girls only know how to wish, dream, and know that none of it will not come true ever. Santa was never an option in my girl’s childhood. That was a privilege for other kids as I got so tired of never being able to grant them not even one wish so they knew the truth from a long time ago. This is our life. My girls are growing up fast, hard, and unfortunately without ever being kids and all because I have no where to turn, no help, no family, and no one who really cares. If you have not ever lived through it, you can not know what heartache we have to face day to day. If you have, then you do know what misery really is. Please I am not scamming you, all that I have confided with you can be verified and you are welcome too. Please can you help us? I am begging you for my girl’s sakes. PLEASE, we are so destitute and direly in need of school supplies, clothing, shoes, and etc. Please for once give my girls the opportunity to find out what it is like to have actual current style clothing. For once be able to fit in and not be picked on. They are good girls and are very deserving. I feel so alone and in the dark and against a wall and so stuck. I hate this and I need help.
Please can you help us? We need financial help to get things we need like a used stackable washer and dryer, personal items, hygiene items, and as well help catching up the light, rent, and car and getting oil change and some used tires before too late. I can verify my whole situation please can you help?
Amy in NC
I too am disabled and have bipolar and depression as well as chronic pain in my back and neck and am a single and struggling mom and need help and have no support at all from anywhere. My parents died a long time ago as did 2 of my siblings and all the family I have left will no longer talk to me as I married a Hispanic and they are very racist, unfortunately.
My story probably is not that much different from any of the many others and you are most likely wondering why I am asking you for help, but I did want to write you as I figured you would think I am just trying to con you as many would I guess, but I decided to anyway, in hopes you would believe me. and just ask if maybe you could help us somehow.
I am a single mom raising my girls here in King NC, totally alone and on my own on a mere SSI check and some child support here and there (lately it has been pretty constant/sometimes not). SSI is only 600.00 a month for my child and sometimes the child support comes in and ONLY sometimes and that is 240.00 a month. I am trying my hardest to also get disability and now have a lawyer to help me as I keep getting denied. Anyways, one of my girls has multiple disabilities or as I rather call them, “challenges”. She is 16 years old and has ADHD, a pretty severe developmental delay as well as a significant learning disability. The problems she faces are fairly common, it’s our quality of life and it is extremely low and very sad. I worry so much about and the worries have become more like horribly long nightmares. To make a very long story short, our lives are only despair, suffering, and dire poverty. What I feel right now is inhumane suffering and pain of poverty and not to mention at times we literally gone hungry and without most of the very basic human needs such as clothing, personal hygiene products, and the like. Most of the time we have no toilet paper even and right now we need DIRELY a stackable washer and dryer in the apartment we live in. The laundromat is killing me and I dont go but every 3/4 weeks and with little clothes, that is making it very hard.
My girls are good and deserving and it literally depresses me because I can not find a job and we live on my daughter’s disability and NEVER, EVER do I have an extra even dollar. Right now, my car insurance is due in June and it is 400.00 because of a wreck I had in 2007 that almost took me out. I have no way in the world to pay the car insurance and it is really getting to me.
I am bipolar and have manic depression anyway and the stress of knowing that I will literally loose my car if I don’t maintain the insurance. I am begging you for help. I have no one to lean on, no where to turn, and it’s just me and them only. I have no family and I am broke. We drive a clunker for real that is a Ford Taurus and it is eating me alive in gas cause it needs work like oil change, plugs, filters, etc. I can't even afford gas for it or an oil change especially tires etc that it also desperately needs. I also have to make monthly payments on it along with paying rent, light, phone, internet, cable, and extra food every month. Not to mention several other bills that I have to always "rob Peter to pay Paul". Please don’t ignore my plea. Please in the name of God Almighty, can you please help us?
Daily living is very difficult for us and you can not begin to imagine what it is like living in this constant hell that we have to call life. Most days I do not even want to get up and wish I had not even woke up but its my kids that keep me here. I so strongly feel that I was put on this earth only to suffer or that I have targeted by some sort of devilish spell. The life that we live isn't really a life, its a day to day never ending torture. I am deeply stricken with horrible depression, just last year after literally dozens of medications was also diagnosed with being bi polar and no matter what they put me on, my family situation and poverty keeps me down. I hope that you can understand that. Just getting up in the morning, showering, getting dressed, and greeting even the most beautiful day, for me, is an enormous task and I feel so miserable and feel that I am a total failure. Maybe you can relate to my whining I don’t mean to do that, just trying to keep it real.
My kids dad basically left us without anything at all a while back and he obviously does not care at all as he never helps me and most of the time dont pay support either. At this time our low fixed income barely affords us the ability to meet the every-month bills like rent, light, phone, etc, etc, you know the basics. I have a piece of crap car that really I am a bit embarrassed of, don’t get me wrong, I am grateful for it, but I am 44 years of age and have nothing at all in my life to show for it.
Many things that so many people take for granted, for my girls is a huge deal. Now I will cry along with type to you as this is a very tender spot for me really and truly I can not be any more real with you as I am being. My ten year old and sixteen year old (disabled child) are both in school and do well, and are just the very threading of my heart. They are great girls, very honest, very hard working, and very deserving of a lot more than I am able to give them; it is in this area that I call out to you for help. Not once have they gone during the summer and gotten all new clothes, shoes, and supplies. We NEVER have a dollar, not one. They love pizza, burgers, even red bulls but we never can have any of them as we never have any money at all and I just really need a break.
My kids have trips that they miss, I NEVER can get their pictures, and amusement parks, circus, fairs, skating, movies, and the like; like I said before is a huge deal for them. My dream has always been to provide for them but also be able to let them be kids, normal kids, like their friends. Clothing is another issue for them. For the elder in high school, much more so and the ten year old is obese and for her it is equally a big deal as her size, as you may well already know, is hard to find, and when I do come across her size, I could not afford not even one single item.
During the summers of my poor youth I will tell you that despite poverty in my own family growing up, my mom always somehow always somehow took us and got us new school clothing and I can not do that at all and I feel like a failure. I hate myself so much sometimes even though I know that the economy is partly to blame too. I want a nicer car so that we can have it for a long time and not have something tear up everyday like the one we have is basically worn out and I am throwing away good money on it.
Please don't just sweep me and my kids under the rug and ignore us, can you help us? God truly bless you for what you do for folks and I hope you will help us. I am so tired of struggling and it hurts me so deeply to see my kids come home crying because the rich kids make fun of their clothes and stuff. What so many people take for granted in this world to us is literally treasures. The ability to go to the grocery store and buy food, real food, not the cheap stuff that keeps us unhealthy and my ten year old obese or being able to go to the movies now and then but never, ever get to. The fun of going during the summer months to some amusement parks to have some fun, instead of having to rake and scrape just to get by from one month to the next. I feel like God has just abandoned me and my kids and while all other families go out and buy their children new school clothing and shoes that never cost under 100.00 for new school year, then go out and buy them the current, newest, and best clothing all while we sit here unable to afford even yard sale or Goodwill. My girls are missing out on life and that makes me feel so, so, so horrible, worthless, and like an ant, an animal, unworthy to even live and actually makes me want to just kill myself but I love them too much
My kids don’t ask for anything and are missing out on all good things in life. They know that even if they beg they will not get anything new as they know very well we have no money. We all live like un humans, like animals, not being able to even go to the grocery store and buy food like we really like, just the very basics that we can afford as we have to ensure we can make it all month long. My girls only know how to wish, dream, and know that none of it will not come true ever. Santa was never an option in my girl’s childhood. That was a privilege for other kids as I got so tired of never being able to grant them not even one wish so they knew the truth from a long time ago. This is our life. My girls are growing up fast, hard, and unfortunately without ever being kids and all because I have no where to turn, no help, no family, and no one who really cares. If you have not ever lived through it, you can not know what heartache we have to face day to day. If you have, then you do know what misery really is. Please I am not scamming you, all that I have confided with you can be verified and you are welcome too. Please can you help us? I am begging you for my girl’s sakes. PLEASE, we are so destitute and direly in need of school supplies, clothing, shoes, and etc. Please for once give my girls the opportunity to find out what it is like to have actual current style clothing. For once be able to fit in and not be picked on. They are good girls and are very deserving. I feel so alone and in the dark and against a wall and so stuck. I hate this and I need help.
Please can you help us? We need financial help to get things we need like a used stackable washer and dryer, personal items, hygiene items, and as well help catching up the light, rent, and car and getting oil change and some used tires before too late. I can verify my whole situation please can you help?
Amy in NC
What I need your help in is to find a bridge loan. No, I am not asking you for a loan, just help me find a bank, person, etc. that might help me. My father has died and left his children his house in NC. We have already sold the farm and am just awaiting settlement through the court....I can provide docs of this. I can secure the loan with some land that I have. I want to sell the land but have not had time thoughout this eviction process to do this and to be quite honest, with the market these days, it may take some time to sell. I don't have time.
The problem is that I was evicted last Monday (can show proof) and this money may not be here for months yet but I need it now. Right now I am living in a storage unit. I have no transportation because I can not drive due to blindness and even a bus ticket now is a luxury. I have had trouble finding a homeless shelter because they are all full. I just have to go day by day.
If you think you can help please let me know. Like I said, I am not asking you for the loan, just help in finding one.
Thanks,
Paula Taylor
407-417-7960 (cell_