https://gofund.me/7f4d8618

I've started a GoFundMe because I've finally reached my ultimate point of desperation. I'm disabled and living with my 78-year-old father Walter, who has just been diagnosed with malignant melanoma and has started taking radiation treatments as of August 4th. While he does have Medicare, he still has to pay so much copay per month.

Within the last few months I've also had some health scares that required visits to the ER, most notably in June I collapsed in the bathroom floor and began exhibiting signs of a seizure, though as it turns out I just experienced something called a Vagal Syncope. Unlike my father, I have no health insurance.

We do have life insurance and cancer policies from Liberty National, but they've steadily risen in price over the last five years. The life Insurance policy was $180 per month, now it's $350 per month. This isn't helped by the recent economic crises the US has been faced with, where fuel has risen to $6-$10 per gallon and food and water have gone up significantly in price.

Our last and only hope is the kindness of strangers.

Our cost of living has exceeded our monthly income, we're in deep medical debt, and now due to overdraft fees, we're now deep in financial debt. We started the month of August with only $230 in our checking account, which isn't enough to even cover our telecom bill or our monthly groceries. We've had to start collecting food from our local food bank and supplement our diets with multivitamins.

And that's not counting the food and other things we need for our pets, two dogs, and multiple cats. It's gotten so bad we've had to start rationing food for them, and we've had to stop buying litter for the cats in favor of just sand and soil from our own yard, which isn't helping sanitation.

None of our relatives or family friends can afford to provide any financial aid, as many are recovering from COVID and are also paying off steep medical bills.

With the funds we hopefully receive from people like you, we hope to cancel out our debt and return to some form of financial stability to avoid our home being repossessed or possibly worse.

It would mean the world to both of us.