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Hello my name is Samantha. I’m 39 years old. I am disabled from a car accident that I had in October of 2022. I have a 21 yr old son and a 16 year old daughter. They are great kids. My son has graduated high school already and my daughter is about to graduate high school. They both have part time jobs, full of joy, and a pleasure to be around. On August 3rd 2022 they lost their dad (my husband of 20 yrs) Mark to drug overdose! We were separated at the time and had been separated since January of 2019. My mom passed away February of 2022, I was in my first car wreck April 2022, my husband died August 2022, and in October 2022 was the other wreck I had been in that broke both my legs and put me in bed for 9 months. And I still have problems with walking for longer than 10 to 15 minutes or standing on my legs for any certain amount if time. Seeing as how the screws are backing them selves back out of my legs due to the negligence of the doctor who put the rods and screws in my legs I am awaiting more surgery.  Now during the midst of all these other life changing events our home burnt down on March 9th of this year! And my kids and I have been homeless since. We’ll we have places to stay but its not the same as calling a place our home. I have help with the government to get a new place to live the problem is I don’t have enough money to get our electric turned on, much less get food for our home, or get any kind of furniture for our home. I have found a place I go Monday to sign the lease but I’m really stressing about getting food for us and getting electricity and furniture as well. If someone could please find it in their heart to help us out we would greatly appreciate it! I applied for disability but I was denied 3 different times. I’m not able to work a public job due to he severity of my injuries with my legs. I mean I get a check for my minor daughter from her dad’s social security and that will last another year and a half when my daughter turns 18. I clean a house here and there or mow and weed eat a yard or two for whatever mony I can get. And that’s going out on limb and risking losing my legs because I’m nit supposed to be up putting a lot of weight and stress on them while I’m awaiting another surgery. So I’m stuck between a rock and a hard spot trying to figure out how I’m gonna get us what we need to survive on and get up themoney to get our power turned on for our new place also get food for the house. Plus we have 3 dogs that I have to feed also that is hard to keep fed because of the money situation. So many times since our house burnt I have wanted to just sit down somewhere anywhere and cry my eyes out and scream. But I’m an adult and I know that struggling is part of life and hopefully it will get better!!! I just know that my kids have been through so much that they could have  let bring them down but they didn’t and I’m grateful and proud of them for that. I couldn’t ask for better children. Again if someone anyone could have it in their heart to help us out to be able to get through our first couple months in our new home we would be very grateful.