Family Financial Woes

This week I have been applying for financial assistance.

Here is my latest post about our family woes. See

my websites with donation tabs (to the right of this blog

at the top) if you can help us out.

The letter that my doctor wrote sounds like the rings of

death but I feel very much alive. I even mowed the lawn

this week instead of taking my walk:

"This letter is to certify that Ms. Denise .......... is under my

current care for advanced, recurrent, metastic breast

cancer which is HER 2 positive and pulmonary embolism.

She is currently receiving weekly outpatient Taxal chemo-

therapy and monoclonal antibody therapy with hercepton.

....... She is the mother of 5 young children and due to her

medical condition and treatment is currently 100% disabled

to work.

I would strongly support her application for financial

assistance through your cancer outreach center......."

I love my doctor. She is one of the kindest people I have

ever met. She is an immigrant from Germany and just

became a United States citizen.

The main reasons I can't work are: my children, fatigue,

and loss of strength and motion in my left arm from a

lumpectomy in my left breast and arm pit 1.5 years ago.

My OT comes three days a week to help me regain that

motion. That ends next week and then I am responsible

for the exercises on my own.

Dear Board of Directors:

Enclosed is the requested physicians letter. The last fifteen years I have been

a stay at home mother raising my children now ages 6 to almost fourteen.

Six years ago my husband left me and we have been sharing custody since.

Two years ago when I saw my dwindling bank savings from a settlement

and realized I needed to start working, I got sick with breast cancer making

it hard to think of even working with continuous fatigue and then pain and

lack of range of motion from a lumpectomy surgery.

Starting last September I had to start putting purchases, gas and groceries

on credit cards to save my savings for monthly bills. In January I sold

our van to pay off these debts.

But then I had to start over on my credit cards. Now down to $400, begging

money from friends and applying for govt. assistance, this credit card debt

is looming over my head. It is my biggest worry. Enclosed you will find

my latest bill for it. (now about $11,000 with about $15,000 debt total on

all my cards)

Any help is appreciated toward this bill.

Also if you know of any other organization where I can apply for financial

assistance send them my way. I will be applying for heat assistance in

November. I have applied for disability for MassHealth (I have court

ordered insurance also), am currently also applying for food stamps

and welfare.

Your gas cards sound appealing also. I mostly use Mobil here where I live.

Thanks so much!

-Denise Michelle