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My puppy is 6 months old (today actually) and he has just contracted Parvo. His name is Chopper, he is a Lab/Pit mix. He weighs 42 lbs and lives here with my husband and I. We also have his brother, Sheik, another pup from his litter. In the past 24 hours, Chopper has been vomiting very often and wouldn't have anything to eat or drink. He also started having bloody diarrhea. I took him to the Vet where they tested him positive for the Parvo Virus and he must stay there and be hospitalized to have the best chance to survive and come through. However, the vet I took him to is the cheapest around and they still say it will cost anywhere from $600-$900 for his complete treatment. All the money my husband and I could come up with was $400, and even that $400 puts us behind on bills and groceries and many things, but it was enough for them to take Chopper and start his treatment. Please help us in the fight to save our puppy! We would be forever grateful for anything and everything donated to us. God bless.

I am a 36 year old single mother of two awesome teenagers and I'm trying to fulfill a life long dream by going back to school.

For as long as I can remember I have always wanted to be an archaeologist and history professor as well as wanting to move to Norway since first reading the Prose Edda at the age of 11. Unfortunately those dreams got put on hold when I had my first child at the age of 19 and my second at 21. My children are now 15 and 17 and about to go off to university and begin their own lives and so it is time for me to revisit my dreams. This is going to consist of 3 steps each of wish I need help funding as I do not qualify for student loans/grants and cannot afford to quit my job to be elligible.

As the first step in this process I have been accepted to the University of Leicester to begin work on my BA in Ancient History and Classical Archaeology and am scheduled to begin classes on June 4th 2012 via distance education. In total the 3 year course will cost £10,350 with £1150 installments due every January, May and September 1st. Along with this one module requires me to go to England in year 2 for field school at Borrough Hill as well as a second trip over in year 3 for lab work. There is also an option to make a third trip for the graduation ceremony if funding allows. Each of these trips will cost roughly $2500 - $3000.

The second step in this plan is to complete a Master's degree in Nordic Viking and Medievil Studies at the University of Oslo in Norway. At this time UiO does not have tuition fees however they do require that international students have NOK 80,000 (roughly $13,500) per year of study. And Norwegian law prevents international students outside the EU from working while persuing their studies.

Finally the third step in the process much like the second involves doing further studies at UiO in the form of persuing a PhD in a topic related to Viking Metallurgy.

I have already taken steps to start covering costs on my own by working as much overtime as I can get (though this option is going to be limited once school starts as I will need to focus on school work) as well as moving from the house I was renting to a smaller, cheaper apartment with a roomate to cut costs. Unfortunately these measures alone aren't going to be enough to get me there. Any help you could give would be very much appreciated.

I could really use a new laptop, currently I don't have a computer in my house and I have to use the computers at my local library's computer lab. Please help me raise 900 dollars for a new laptop!

Eight years ago, my wife was diagnosed with Hashimoto's Disease, a thyroid condition that really wears her down. She had to stop working as she could not make it through an 8-hour day. We had insurance coverage until last October when I lost my job. We have exhausted our resources. She finished the last of her medication in March and cannot get refills until she has the thyroid lab tests done and reviewed by a doctor. The tests are very expensive ($600-$800) and to maintain her medication will be another $100-$200 a month. If you can help, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

This is highly embarassing for me to "cyber beg." Begging seems like such an awful word, but here I am asking for donations of anything! I don't care if it's 0.25 cents or $1. Anything helps.

I'm a struggling graphic designer in need of a new desktop Machintosh. I'm aiming to raise $1300 to buy a new iMac computer so that I can start designing to complete my portfolio and start applying for work. My last computer failed on me during finals in school. Thanks to my school's computer lab, I was able to finish my work and graduate. That was back in NYC. I couldn't afford living there on my own and had to come to a smaller town to live with parents. I worked minimum wage retail to gain some money, but the physical stress forced me to stop working due to muscle weakness problem I have. A medical affliction caused by a tumor that has been affecting my energy and skeletal/muscle strength for about 7 years. It was hard getting through school with my condition. It was twice as hard having to work on my feet for hours in a retail environment.

Double my misfortune, I live in a place where jobs are hard to come by. A small town which has a lot of developing to do and jobs are far between. I need a car to travel to the nearest grocery store and can't depend on parents to transport me everywhere. This is why a job is so imperative. I'd like to feel fulfilled knowing I'm doing something for my future and earning money to buy my needs. I wish I had the equipment to start looking for work.

I want an iMac more than anything in the world. If I had my iMac, I could update my portfolio, do some online freelance work and help my parents with some bills. I could start applying for jobs from home and not have to rely on my neighbor's iPad to browse the internet. Whenever my family goes to the mall in the weekends, I pass by our local Apple store and I see people walking out of the store with large boxes containing their brand new iMac's, Macbook Pro's or expensive iPad's...and I get angry.

Yes, I know it sounds terrible and I know not everyone buying a computer is a rich business mogul or an overpampered kid whose parents can buy them whatever they want, and they never have to worry about whether they could afford it or not. But it hurts me to know I'm in such a position, that although I am an adult who should be paying her parent's bills, I can't even help myself because I'm unemployed. No thanks to my stupid weak body that can't take a lot of physical strain, no thanks to ending up in a town where I can't get anywhere without having to walk at least two miles, no thanks to not having my computer...

My name is not Amelia. That is just a screen name because I am too embarassed to reveal my real name. I'd be so grateful to anyone that can help me reach my $1300 goal. I know Mac's are expensive, but they are the industry standard in what I do. I would like a desktop because they are durable and longer lasting. They can also take a lot processing power for the heavy graphic work I do. If you can find it in your time to spare any change .25 cents, $1, $5, I'll be grateful 'till eternity.

Anyone who donates, be kind to leave an email so that I can send you something in return for your favor.

Thank you and God bless,
ameliab2005@gmail.com

Hi.

Thanks for taking the time to read my request. I'm 30 years old, still in college and living with my parents. I've made a lot of great accomplishments in my life with far less support than most people who make it this far. Of course, with that said I've also made plenty of mistakes.

I grew up with a single parent, and another parent who visited annually just to stir up emotions and make my life miserable. When I was 18, I decided to work really hard to lose weight so that I could join the US Air Force. I had a strict plan that I was going to follow to succeed in life.

Unfortunately my superiors in the USAF would not accommodate that plan to independence as they forced me to find my own way from the barracks to work (a 40 mi drive), so I had to immediately struggle to get my drivers licence and I had to buy a car on an Airman's paygrade.

My income wasn't enough to afford the car and gas and other living needs that I was expected to pay, so eventually I had to leave the Air Force before my term was up (under honorable conditions). I tried to work as a civilian. The transfer was tough and I was vastly uninformed about what to do and what my options were. I'm the first first generation college student of my extended family.

After some petty jobs that would each take more than 10 years to be able to earn enough to live independently, I finally found a nice nighttime custodian job that was at least simple enough for that kind of pay. I was the night time custodian, but I was also a guy to have on call at this retirement home where I worked. If people's toilets flooded or a nearly deaf resident left their tv on past quiet hours (once I could hear one through 3 floors!) I was the guy to send up to fix it.

Having my first satisfying job as a civilian, I was able to investigate community college during the day, so eventually I enrolled and tried taking a few classes while working full-time. College was my saving grace. I never felt like I belonged anywhere until I first started to take college courses in math, science, and philosophy. I found the tutoring lounge on campus, made a lot of friends there, and I spent many hours cramming and helping those in need.

This soon led to me finding financial aid, making arrangements with my parents (my mom and my stepfather) to let me go to school full-time while I lived with them, and putting in my 2 weeks notice at work to focus exclusively on school.

My counselors advised that I pick where I want to transfer to and then figure out the details of how to get there after I got accepted. I think this was bad advice. While I ended up choosing to transfer to a university that had my desired major, Biophysics, it was 60 miles away from where my parents lived. My car that I had bought when I was in the Air Force also eventually broke down from not being able to afford maintenance while I worked, and was towed away for being in the public street for too long.

Finally, I got accepted to UC San Diego to work towards a degree in Physics with a specialty in Biophysics. When it came time to transfer, I got as involved as I could on how and when I was supposed to receive the financial aid so that I could go get an apartment and everything, and my school kept telling me, "you should get it tomorrow" until about 2 weeks into my first quarter when I finally got the support.

Despite this rocky start, I managed to get into a good shape for myself, making my way slowly but surely through school. Learning a great deal. Eventually when I felt the struggle was too difficult, I changed my major to Neuroscience before I began my upper division coursework.

So, as I settled into my schooling and struggled with maintaining financial independence on financial aid, I managed to get myself into maintaining a great aquarium hobby, owned two great little kittens from a street cat program, led as president of a student organization for one year, and eventually I got married. I also carefully learned about the stock market and managed to make some great gains with money that I had invested from financial aid savings.

In 2010, my gains were over 100%. That amounted to $2000 doubling itself, but still, that says a lot about me as a trader. However, 6 months into my marriage, she said she wanted out, grabbed the car that we both paid into (most of the money was mine from stocks; $5500 worth), and refused to pay her share of 2 months rent. That happened in December of the year of 2010.

2011 was a difficult year for me. I fought hard to maintain things, especially my head, but it was tough. I lost 45 lbs from exercising regularly, made lots of new friends, and I got some volunteer work experience in a Neuroscience lab. But I just couldn't focus well enough to maintain my finances and my grades, so I had to drop out and live back with my parents.

Despite how tough it's been, not finding work, struggling with the ins and outs of the VA, and just needing a professional therapist to talk to and help me keep my head straight but never being able to get one, I've managed to recuperate well enough and learn a lot more about this bottom floor of society that I've been so desperately trying to escape my whole life.

I've gone looking for opportunity in every direction. I've tried changing my career goals, collecting recyclables, writing online, trying any online scheme that didn't include me forking out money to get it, imagining what I could write as a novel, tried to make money through playing video games, making goal after goal after goal for myself, but still just not being able to get just the right amount of money to put me back on my feet.

I'll be going back to school in April at the risk of having to do it as a homeless person if the VA doesn't pull through for me. They recently approved my 10% service connected disability status and now I need to jump over a few more hurdles to get my more significant service connected disabilities recognized. I'm also seeing what the vocational rehab people can do for me despite the bureaucratic issues that are stopping them from helping me all the way.

BTW, this whole time that I've gone through life with common lower class difficulties, I've been disabled with a number of small conditions that all add up to a hard time. I have lower back issues that the military has yet to own up to. Community college found also that I have a learning disability which makes some intellectual tasks show up as lower than average ability for me while the rest of my intellect is high enough to expect that I could easily get a Masters Degree or a PhD. My biggest difficulty in school is that they don't give me enough time to show them what I know or what I'm capable of.

From working with special needs students as a tutor, I have proven to myself that there is a major problem in the education system. Most teachers never simplify the material into a clear picture of what they want to teach. If you want someone to learn something, the last thing you should be fuzzy on is what it is exactly that you want them to learn. We can't all work like intuitive Jedi or sophisticated parrots.

If you help me out, here is a list of the priorities of what your money will go towards, in order of their priority If you would like to request that I spend your donation on a specific cause, please let me know:

1. A working cheap economic vehicle.
I need something that I can sleep in and that will take me wherever I need to go. Preferably something that can stow quite a few recyclables as well to pay for gas, but not an SUV or truck or van (Unless that's all that is cheap of course. Not likely but you never know.).
I'll aim for great gas mileage, but I'm thinking that I should attend some police car auctions to see what the cheapest deal I can find is. This car would make a great shelter for me while I return to my far away school.

2. Investing on the stock market.
Trust me, I know how to fish. If you want to send me a request for proof I'd be glad to compose some evidence of my finest moments as well as my worst to show you that I can do well for myself on the stock market, even during the recession. What I could really use right now, is a little bait. Trading is good money for me, but to make enough to make gains worth more than the commission cost (about $10), you need about $300-1000 per investment. $300 is more for the high risk lottery plays on the market. I even made a blog about it if you would like to see:
http://www.squidoo.com/TheYoungidealistEconomyBlog
If you are willing, we can arrange something personal so that you wont need to worry about me putting the money you offer at high risk and blow it all. Might even be able to arrange something where I could make money for you to prove myself before accepting your donation. Whatever the case, I know we'd have to make it a personal arrangement to satisfy the current laws.

3. Working towards paying my debts to my friends.
My friends have been really supportive through these hard times, though they are starving students themselves. To keep up my morale they've bought me food, given me a place to crash when they could, and even paid to have me join them at fun local events. I have some money that I've promised them back, and I plan on making due on those promises as soon as possible.

4. Paying off my debts with companies.
I've had times where I couldn't afford to pay for rent and had to leave, like when my wife left me to live with her parents. These issues follow me on my credit score and I would like to work towards removing them so that I can turn my life around.

5. Getting a good start towards paying off my student loans.
I know I won't be able to pay them off before I find a good career with my degree. I would just like to have something to start making some automatic payments with and put that part of my bad credit score behind me as well.

6. Buying a home.
My mom never owned a home. No offense meant to land lords out there, but I really think the rental system is way out of line. My mom was always a hard worker. Way better than me, yet she could never own a home because she didn't have the money. Meanwhile, people with money could live in great big houses for less than she even had to pay.
I want a house to own. Probably start with a condo and seek ways to improve it and flip a profit out of it. Then I want to keep building up money from housing until I can manage to build an apartment building.
If I could, I'd like to make an apartment building near a university that offers cheap housing using the Japanese capsule model or something even more economic and more comfortable.

7. Making an online tutoring site meant to offer free tutoring and tutoring for tips. Imagine a site (I have yet to know of one) where people can collect their resources on a class, much like they collect info on ratemyprofessor.com, but also seek help from others who are taking the class or who have taken the class. Donors like you can offer money to tutors who post their notes and stories on the site, alongside ratings from other students that they helped.
Some tutors can offer their rates for help, sell their notes online for cheap, or just offer their help whenever they can and ask to be tipped through paypal if someone likes their work. My hope is that such a site could help to put an end to sophistry in the college system once and for all, making education easy and affordable for everyone.

8. After I have everything I'm hoping for above, the sky is the limit. But I would prefer to put the extra money that I don't need to good uses. I would spread a little philanthropy around, give to others in need on this site and through other resources.
I'd also look to teach others how to fish. I think a great way for the economy to be fixed would be if philanthropists made some really good employee owned companies. Make the place pay for itself, skim a little off the top, and walk away knowing that you really were a job creator.
I think that everyone who is capable of work and who chooses to work deserves to have their own independent living situation. I know that we are a long way from that, but I tend to be an optimist. I would like to try and make the world a better place, if nothing else.

Aside form financial help, I'm interested in anything else that I could get that's useful. Advice, Neuroscience Career connections, work, hobby or volunteer work that can easily become lucrative, I'm really all ears. Thanks again for taking the time to read my request. I hope you find it in you to help me out, even get to know me if you'd like. Bet you $5000 I can make you laugh. Did I win? >;) it was worth a try anyway.

A Desperate Plea for HELP… Donations for Luxating Patella Surgery!


I have a Service Dog named FiFi who is a Medical Alert Dog.
My Service Dog has been diagnosed with an extreme case of Severe Bilateral Medical Luxating Patella, confirmed by two separate veterinarians, who consider it to be a chronic and serious medical condition. The grooves in her femurs, where the kneecaps are supposed to ride, are very shallow and have caused her kneecaps to slip out of socket to the inside of the legs. Her kneecaps cannot be manipulated back into place by hand.
She has developed the condition bilaterally, on both sides, her condition is at a Grade 5 out of 5 in both hind knees, which is the most severe, and she needs surgery ASAP on both limbs.

The Luxating Patellas are causing constant pain and discomfort, decreased energy level, tiring quickly, bony protuberances, bowlegged, crouching stance, swollen knees and joints, poor coordination, loss of balance, limited mobility, stiffness when walking, a change in posture, lack of appetite, and arthritis pain.
When she is able to walk she does so with one of her hind legs further out from her body, while the other affected limb is always being carried because it is much too painful to use. For the most part, she must balance her weight on her front legs as she walks, while holding her hindquarters off the ground, which is severely uncomfortable to say the least. She is no longer able to walk, or even stand on her left hind leg, and is not able to move it.

The recommendation is for her to have corrective surgery on both knees within 2 weeks. The surgeon advised that, if left untreated, the condition will worsen and may lead to rupture of the cruciate ligament as well as painful deformation of the leg bones as she continues to grow. The surgery involves deepening the trochlear groove and modifying the joint capsule to prevent the kneecap from slipping out. If there is significant deformation of the leg bones, they will have to be cut, realigned and pinned. She will have approximately 8 weeks of recovery time.

As you can imagine, this surgery will not be cheap. The estimated cost (at a reduced price) is approx. $1,900 to $2,000, per leg, not including pre-op lab work, post-op rechecks, X-rays, narcotic pain medicine, a custom-built Wheelchair for Toy Breeds (to help her get around), plus miscellaneous other medical supplies that she will need after surgery. The Wheelchair (as prescribed by her Veterinarian) must be ordered online and costs $249.00+ Tax + Shipping and Handling charges).

If FiFi does not get the surgery she needs she will be forced to live a life of constant pain with a permanent luxation that could develop into degenerative joint changes, bone deformities of the femur and tibia, and may not be able to walk ever again!

Any donation that you can make towards FiFi's surgery would be greatly appreciated!

FiFi is an adorable Toy Pomeranian with a Sweet and Loving Disposition; a Sparkling Personality and Magical Charm. She is very clever, well-mannered, and is unusually calm and quiet. She is one smart dog!
She has brought so much Joy and Blessing into my life; I can't ever imagine life without her! Wherever I go, FiFi brings out the best in people. I know she brings out the best in me. I have formed a special bond with FiFi. She is not only my Service Dog; she is also my Best Friend and part of my Family.

My dog is a Service Dog, and she's paid her dues. It is a lot of money, but my dog deserves it. She's only 7 years old.

If it were for me, I would not ask for help.

But it's for FiFi!

Thank you all in advance for your donations, prayers and support!!


P.S. I can provide good personal and veterinary references to testify that I am a loving and responsible pet parent. I can also provide medical documentation from FiFi’s Veterinarian to verify her diagnosis and medical condition.


• Monetary donations are gratefully accepted.
• No donation is too small.
• All donations, no matter what size, add up quickly!
• You may make your donation via PayPal.

You can either mail Donations via regular mail or by credit card to my PayPal Account.

(Add Note: "For FiFi")

Mail donations to:
S.J. Wilson
1304 Bruskrud Road
Apt. 1116
Everett, WA 98208-4179

PayPal account: MilkNHoneyB@yahoo.com


Definition of Luxating Patella:

(Luxated Patellas are a congenital (present at birth) condition. The actual luxation may not be present at birth, but the structural changes which lead to luxation are present. A Luxating Patella, or Patellar Luxation, is a condition that involves the dislocation of the knee cap, where it rotates to either the inside or the outside of the leg. A Luxating Patella can result from a traumatic injury or from a birth defect, but it is primarily passed down through ancestral genes).
Grade IV. The Patella cannot be replaced manually, and the leg is carried or used in a crouching position. Extension of the stifle is virtually impossible. Tibial rotation is quite severe, resulting in a "bow legged" appearance.

PLEASE HELP ME, I KNOW I AM BEING POISONED. I have a very strong reason to believe I am being poisoned by the tenants or staff I the government owned apartment building I'm living in, based on the behavior of the building staff and tenants as well as the severe fatigue and decline I feel during and after every shower I take, cup of the tap I drink, or food I eat from preparation in my kitchen using the water. I need $750 to have the samples I have already collected on video, confirmed by a lab giving me an substance identification, I then can begin taking the appropriate legal action being that I can already prove beyond a reasonable doubt with videos I already have posted on youtube. Any amount you can spare, even if it's just a penny will eventually make a world of difference. The only thing that has delayed me getting justice on this matter for this long is my lack of funding. My paypal.com account email is: ernestbolds@netscape.net if you do not see the paypal donate button below. PLEASE Help me teach these cowards a lesson that will inspire others to seek justice for themselves.

HERE IS ONE OF THE THIRTY VIDEOS I MADE OF ME RECORDING THE BELIEVE TOXIC FLOWING FROM BY FAUCET AND COLLECTING IT IN A VIAL MADE ON JANUARY 22, 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scekt7p1ZRo

Couple rescuing dogs for 10 years. We have blog telling our story in Brazil although we are not Brazilians. http://www.janeiro-emmy.blogspot.com We were financially ruined by a natural disaster floods and landslides. Our business failed due to the lack of tourists visiting the area. Who would want to take a holiday in an area where well over a 1000 people died. We have 18 rescue dogs here at the moment and not a cent in the world. Closed our business and now we are stranded in Brazil with 18 old and several special needs dogs. We have one rescued from the disaster her entire human family died. There are videos on the blog of many of the dogs before and after rescue. We have just saved three puppies from dying and got them adopted out. We have been checked out by several animal groups and are authentic. We need to raise money to find new premises quickly before the bank throws us out. We are on facebook with a page called Dogs in Brazil. Please if you give value to rescue work and want to help visit the blog. See the photos, videos read our story. We have written to 100's of celebs and foundaations. We have a process with a lawyer to become a non profit. It has not been completed due to lack of funds. We are desperate. Cannot let these dogs go back to the streets. Of course, there are many strays here we only took the worst cases. Go to blog and see Daisy's story, Trooper, Guga an eldery lab.See the conditions we found these dogs in and see them happy. Please don't let this happen. We spent a huge amount of money over ten years rescueing dogs and now we all need rescuing and quick. Any help appreciated. We have a chip in on our blog.

Hello and thank you for taking the time to read this.

On 6/29/11 my 13 year old son called me at work crying that his ball hurt. I immediately left worked worrying that it was a Testicular Torsion. Unfortunately I was correct. I gave them his insurance card, (his insurance is court ordered to be supplied by my ex husband my little ones father). Well now I am receiving bills because my son is no longer covered by the insurance that I was told he had. I found this out by receiving the first bill. If I would have known he was no longer covered by his father's insurance I would have covered him under mine, he is now but too late to cover his surgery. So far I have received a total of $5,000.00 in medical bills and have received nothing from the hospital itself just the Anesthesiologist, Xray/Ultrasound and lab tests. I am still anticipating a hospital bill and the Surgeons bill.

Any help you can possibly gve me would be greatly appreciated.

I wish to thank you right now for your help be it a monetary donation or by your prayers. May God Bless You.

I have been unemployed for 2 years with a degree in physics, astrophysics, and math, and almost 100k in student loan debt which is defaulting on me now. I would love to stop teetering on the edge of homelessness and be able to pay off my loans and take care of my family. To do this I need a job! I have teaching experience (3 years in a planetarium, years of tutoring, lab setup, assistant teaching, substitute teacher K-12, and STEM outreach). I am also a skilled researcher and hard worker. I am great at customer service, worked as an admin assistant for several years, as a park ranger/conservation assistant, a salesperson, and even a belly dance teacher. I am talented, motivated, and I want to work. If you have a job for me, please help! Prefer Idaho jobs, but at this point I'm desperate.

Last May I lost my baby, a 7 year old black lab mix named Bully, to lymphoma after 9 months of chemotherapy. In Bully's memory I went on Pet Finder to donate to help save another "big black" dog in Bully's memory. Luke was that dog.

Myself and a friend gave donations to help get Luke neutered and heart worm tested so a rescue organization would hopefully take him and find him a home as he only had a couple days before being euthanized. I kept in touch with the shelter he was at only to find out when they put him under to be neutered he actually died on the table and they brought him back. They then found out he had a congenital heart disease and no rescue organizations would take him.

I went and got Luke last September because I did not want him living out the rest of his days in a cage. At the time I was told his treatment for this condition would only cost about $50 a month. We had a multitude of debt already from Bully's chemo treatments, but I figured we could handle the $50 a month. 9 months and many, many bills later it turns out Luke's heart condition in quite expensive to treat. He had a complication in May when he got digoxin toxicity from the digoxin he takes for his heart. He was very sick for a couple of weeks and now we are having to have his chest tapped to remove fluid anywhere from every 2-4 days. He does not mind the chest taps and he feels like a puppy after their over but the tap alone is $255 and that doesn't count the office visit that goes with it or his numerous medications he's on. We’ve spent over $4000 in the last two months alone and the credit cards are quickly drying up.

I have a job and work every day, I hate to ask for money, but anybody who is willing to give, I promise you that each and every dollar will go towards Luke, his medical expenses and all his medicines. For everyone, giving or not, please remember Luke every day in your prayers.

Thank you for reading this.

Ive had a yellow lab for the past 3 years, and it has been my best dog i have ever had. buddy and i have been best friends since the day i brought him home. well, he was just hit by a car on my road, and i have no idea how to pay for it. my parents dont have enough money to pay for the $3,000 it will cost to help save him. he has internal bleeding, internal injuries, broken bones and various lacerations. I dont know where else to go for money, none of my friends seem to have any desire to help me out, and the humane society here doesnt deal with things of that nature. help would be a miracle.

To Whom It May Concern:

South Side Help Center is a Not-For Profit 501(c)3 Community Based Organization who provides a variety of services to the Greater Roseland area. We are currently expereincing some financial struggles with providing some working computers for our youth and community computer lab. If anyone would be so kind as to generously donate some working desktop computers we would greatly appreciate it. If you can help please contact me at (773)701-4221. The organizations name is South Side Help Center and you may visit our website to learn more about our organization at www.southsidehelp.org.

I have a rare disease, Relapsing Polychondritis and need help. My disease is slowly affecting the cartilege all over my body and lots of days I'm in severe pain and never have a day without any pain at all. I have 12+ prescriptions, but can't fill them all as insurance doesn't pay for them all. I see different doctors on a regular basis along with lab work and tests. I'm 59 and my husband of 34 years is 67. He continues to work so I will have health insurance. He also runs a paper route 3 nights a week with my help some of the time. I can't work..I was a hair stylist and child care provider...but since I don't have enough work credits the last 10 years, I can't get disability. Under the guidelines, we have too much income for government/state help. Yes, too much, hahaha, hubby makes 9.00 an hour at his security job.
I worry about him since he is getting older. Please, please, please help. If I could pay for my health insurance, he could retire. Since I have a pre-existing condition, i would use COBRA for 18 months and then convert to a private policy until I qualify for medicare which my husband now uses.
Thanks for reading my post. Any contribution would be welcomed and appreciated more than you could know.

I have a rare disease, Relapsing Polychondritis and need help. My disease is slowly affecting the cartilege all over my body and lots of days I'm in severe pain and never have a day without any pain at all. I have 12+ prescriptions, but can't fill them all as insurance doesn't pay for them all. I see different doctors on a regular basis along with lab work and tests. I'm 59 and my husband of 34 years is 67. He continues to work so I will have health insurance. He also runs a paper route 3 nights a week with my help some of the time. I can't work..I was a hair stylist and child care provider...but since I don't have enough work credits the last 10 years, I can't get disability. Under the guidelines, we have too much income for government/state help. Yes, too much, hahaha, hubby makes 9.00 an hour at his security job.
I worry about him since he is getting older. Please, please, please help. If I could pay for my health insurance, he could retire. Since I have a pre-existing condition, i would use COBRA for 18 months and then convert to a private policy until I qualify for medicare which my husband now uses.
Thanks for reading my post. Any contribution would be welcomed and appreciated more than you could know.
Sincerely,
Vicki

Hello! We are raising up to $3,000.00 for Emit.

Emit is my father-in-laws beautiful brown lab. He recently started having cataract problems at the age of 3. We were all saving up the money to take him in and get him cataract surgery when my father-in-laws house burnt down last year.

Since the fire, Emit's eyes have grown increasingly worse and the money for his eyes had to go to the deductable for the insurance company as well as the initial costs of rebuilding and buying bare necessaties like clothing. It is truely amazing how much you take for granted when you have nothing!

It has been a VERY difficult year and a painful financial blow. We have been unable to save back up the 3,000.00 $ to take Emit in for his surgery. It is horrible to watch a playful pup with so many more years ahead of him have trouble walking in the yard. He doesnt even see a tree and will walk right into it.

We also have been scared and have had to limit his freedom in the yard due to the pool and the deck stairs. We have to leave water in the pool in case he were to fall in. Since the fire though, there is no money to even pay for chemicals so it is quite dirty water :( He has also fallen down the stairs and hurt his leg so we have to caution his movements there as well.

Emit doesnt understand his restrictions! We want to be able to take him in and get his eyes corrected as soon as possible! My husband and I are raising money for this cause and hope to present it to my father-in -law (and Emit) on Christmas.

Please help us in any way you can!

Ive never done such a thing. But I have found myself in the bottom of tha barrel. I am a young single mom trying to go to school (cant afford to go) still living with mom, who can barely keep up with the house bills. And I do work, but all my money goes to trying to pay bills for my moms house. I am the second to oldest of 6 kids, so yes four of them still live here. It is stremely hard, I already have 1200 on student loans, and I have some medical bills, among other loans I took out to buy my vehicle. I dont know what to do anymore!! I really hope this does work, and somebody is kind enough to dated ANYTHING they can, I will deeply appreciate it. I just want my family and myself to get up on our feet, pay for my school, and eliminate some of my debt. Here at the house all we eat is ramen noodles! WE honestly never have been this poor. I feel useless when I see my brothers and my sister, asking my mom for money for lab fees etc. for their school and she cant give them 20 dollars! I barely have enough for my gas money to go to work. But I really dont want to stay this way. I want to go to school, get a good job and support my son, he is only 2. I dont want to be working for many years just to try and make ends meet and next thing you know Im old and never did anything with my life because I was too busy working :( I have good intentions, I want to help my mom, raise my child, and go to school. I honestly cant remember the last time I went to the store to buy myself something nice. Ever since my son was born everything i do and get has been for him. But unfortunatly I cant even do that much and give him all I can because I have to help my mom too. If anyone actually read this, please help me. I dont know what else to do.

Hello and thank you for taking the time to read my plea.
I am 24 years old, I live on my own and barely make enough for rent & sometimes only have enough money to eat once a day.

I don't have the best life style and work day in & day out to achieve what I can. But enough about me...

My mother suffered from Vertigo a couple of years ago & had to have brain surgery. She is starting to feel symptoms and very ill again.

I really want to help her as much as I can finacially, I am even trying to work extra hours and even considering being a lab rat somewhere. But I don't know if that will be enough. Anyones help would be greatly appreciated.

Once again thank you for taking the time to read this, your prayers, hopes & donations will be appreciated.

Hello! I lost most of my income in 2007 when the mortgage industry began to tank. Since I did mortgages, I needed to find other employment. I realized I needed to be self employed in order to keep my home. I began babysitting then became a licensed daycare. I now need to play catchup. The mortgage company wants $17k to restart the mortgage again. I have 9 children and am truly getting back on my feet. UI, my electric company, is so expensive in CT. I have back bills of over $5k when I wasn't bringging in any income. And this season isn't any better. I want to keep my home. I was homeles for a while because my husband left me when I needed surgery and never came back, never sent help, nothing. Thank God there were no kids. I converted my entire first floor to the daycare. I still need backyard equipment, fence, and the basement finished for a computer lab. i'm also preparing to change my current license to accomodate more children. I'm doing all I can to keep up the pace, but I need donations to keep afloat. all donations are graciously appreciated. ALA Daycare NH, CT.,