A few days ago I wrote a diary titled A Plea for Help as my family and I were drowning financially and were about to lose our car, not have food to eat, have our utilities cut off and have no way to get school supplies for our nine year old and sixteen year old foster child. All kinds of Kossacks - from those obviously well off to those strugging as well answered that plea for help and I have wonderful news to report. We were able to pay our almost five hundred dollar electricity bill so it won't be cut off, likewise an over a hundred dollar water bill. We had to pawn our car a few months ago and were able to make a payment and ut an extra fifty dollars on it, so hopefully we will be able to keep up the payments. We have filled our refrigertor and cabinets so our children will have food. People are sending school supplies for the kids, so we have that to look forward to.
For those of you who didn't read the diary, I am a sixty-eight year old woman who lives with her fifty year old daughter and her husband, fifty-five. I have custody of my nine year old grandson as he was abused and starved by my other daughter and her husband. The daughter I live with and her husband have a sixteen year old foster daughter, also named Rachel, whom they are on the way to adopting. My son-in-law was an over the road trucker whose truck broke down, and after spending eight thousand dollars for a transmission and being out of work for two months, the truck broke down in other ways and we do not have the money to fix it. He got a job driving a dump truck and due to the rain and storms in Georgia is only working two or three days a week, hence, our financial difficulties.
I cannot express the gratitude I feel in my heart for all that people have given us. And to those who had nothing but prayers and best wishes. I thank you as well, for your energy has uplifted and sustaned us these last few days. To all of you, and you know who you are, thank you from the bottom of my heart. A special thanks to Nurse Kelley for vouching for me and for kitsap river to mention in the comments I wanted to gift her my kidney. A special thanks also to my spirit brother and sister Aji and Wings for their generosity and love.
Following is also a thank you from my daughter paininzeeback:
For all of the Daily Kos members - All I can begin to say is thank you, from the bottom of my heart. I don't even know how to begin to express the gratitude in my heart at the generosity you have shown my family this week. I am deeply humbled by the love you have shown a total stranger. You are all heroes in my heart. From the prayers to the donations, you have altered my life in the most amazing way. I was drowning and not only did you throw me a life preserver but you pulled me into the boat so to speak. You held me in your arms and made things okay again. How can I ever help you see how you have changed my life? I can only hope and pray that in my lifetime I may be blessed enough to do the same for someone else that is drowning. I had lost ALL of my hope and strength. I had just given up completely when all of you came along and lifted me out of the darkness. God bless each and every one of you. I pray that the Creator of the Universe blesses each of you in ways that you have only dreamed about. Kossacks, you truly change the world, one person at a time. From the deepest regions of my soul I thank you and my family thanks you. "Shock and Awe" keeps coming to mind. I am in shock that a handful of people can change a person’s life so drastically and in awe of the love that flows forth from your spirits. "Thank you" seems like such a small and simple thing to say, but there just are no words to express the love and gratitude in my heart. God bless and thank you. You are a part of me and you live in my heart now. If there is ever ANYTHING that I can do for any of you, please don't hesitate to ask.
Thanks to your generosity, we have been able to catch up most of the bills. This will give us a much better chance of saving the money to get the truck out of the pawn shop sometime soon. It really stinks that when you pawn a big truck you have to leave it with them. If we can get him back in his truck we will be able to support our family.
My heart aches because I am disabled and not able to contribute much to the household. I do receive a disability check but I could make more if I were able to work. I am having my eleventh procedure in nineteen months on Wednesday. I am determined to get better. I am a fighter, not a quitter. I won’t stop until I am well enough to work.
Again, I just cannot thank you enough for the outpouring of love and generosity.