It is extremely difficult and embarrassing asking for help, but at this point I am not sure where else to turn or what to do. This story begins two months ago with a household wide decline of health. It began with incessant vomiting sunrise to sundown, repeated respiratory illness, infections, rashes, cognitive issues. Dozens of specialist and doctors visits in network and out. Medication after medication-with no improvement or positive progression. Eventually we had someone come to the home and do testing of the air quality-which uncovered that we had been living with high levels of species of toxic mold for an extended period of time.
We left home and lived in hotels for a while. For most everyone, symptoms had largely improved while away and away from our belongings. For myself, they have drastically continued to snowball. I have been inpatient at a number of hospitals over the last month for rapidly worsening respiratory disease. Have developed extreme hypersensitivity issues to the mold and subsequently anything from the home, the vehicles we have used to move things-places with the same species. It’s been an extremely exhausting and hectic while of floating from hotel to air bnb, renting cars, hospital stays.
The ask for help, is for my family and partner. They have given up everything, exhausted all financial avenues trying to do everything possible to accommodate an impossible progressive illness, and this period has absolutely decimated them. Housing is at risk, all of their possessions, vehicles, furniture is either gone or going to be discarded. Very few small sentimental items from the home are salvageable. Things are and have honestly gotten quite dire. Unfortunately in regard to this specific circumstance, I belong to the kind of family that will ruin themselves in every aspect to help one member.
The fundraiser goal I fully acknowledge is set high. My hope is to raise enough to be able to secure them clean housing, ways to get around, unburden them from a fraction of the debt they have taken, arrange help clearing out the house and remediating some of the issue-but most, most paramount, at the absolute least-be able to give them something to make their lives less burdened and stressful if even for a short period. My personal health is not and won’t be in a place of being able to help them in the way they need in the time frame they need it.
I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to read a bit about what has been going on. That alone, is extremely meaningful. This is being listed and managed by myself, as they would be absolutely mortified to ask for, or know that someone had asked for help for them. They need it.
