It was supposed to be the prime time of our lives for my family. Our first few years of marriage, our son starting school, a new career, and an optimistic outlook for the immediate future, until my wife started to deteriorate in front of my eyes. She became injured by the Covid-19 vaccine. In mid 2023 she began experiencing a wide array of symptoms, seemingly a new one or two each week, all the while dropping almost 30 lbs., FAST. Debilitating migraines, her hair growth stopped, ringing in her ears, involuntary mouth and throat movements, throat pain, trouble sleeping, severe fatigue, dizzy and faint spells, CONSTANT HIGH fevers lasting ALL DAY that, sometimes requiring hospital visits to get them to go down because they’ll go so high. The illness has affected her GI tract causing painful and debilitating stomach symptoms as well as neurological symptoms that have caused her to have tremors, all of which culminate into severe anxiety and stress. She has gone for test after test after test after test and has been misdiagnosed a plethora of times. It has been over a year and a half and doctors can still not place what is wrong with her, however this all started after she received the Covid-19 vaccine. We now know has had many implications for a lot of people. 

Her illness caused her to go out of work on FMLA and eventually caused me to lose my job as I was not eligible for FMLA and needed to care for her and our young son. We have gone through our entire life savings throughout this time becoming unable to pay for rent, monthly bills, enough food, gas, etc.; medical bills are through the roof. By the time my wife was well enough to go back to work she can still barely make it in most days, she is still on FMLA, and when she does receive a paycheck it really only covers food and some gas for the month. By the time she was well enough for me to go back to work I haven’t been able to find something in time to stop us from being evicted because of the culmination of pile up over time. I even cashed out whatever I had in my 401k to get us as far as I could. 

We have no where to go, we have no one who can help us. We have exhausted any little help we could have received over this last 18 months. We are going to be displaced with a small child, a small elderly dog, and my sick wife unless we can pay our back rent immediately. Please help our family during a time that I never thought I would see, an experience I never thought we would go through, an ask that I never thought I’d being doing. Thank you to anyone who had donated so far, we appreciate you more than words can express. 

I am so tired of watching my wife suffer and caretaking is not easy. We are under and extreme amount of stress on a daily basis. Adding this gloom to deal with is not something we can handle. I am doing my best, God knows it, but we are just not equipped and my wife certainly does not deserve more suffering, and never deserved any type of suffering. My wife is the sweetest woman you will ever meet. She will give you the coat off her back, she will put everyone before herself to her own detriment, even people she barely knows or at times, strangers, she will try and save any and all animals, and she is the most amazing wife and Mother that anyone could ever ask for. I am lucky, our son is so lucky, we need her; we need her well and better and focused on recovery, not these horrors.