John (Paraplegic) & Ann's Recovery
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"The king will answer them, 'I tell all of you with certainty, since you did it for one of the least important of these brothers of mine, you did it for me.'" Matthew 25:40
John Anson is a paraplegic, has COPD with emphysema, and has other health issues and he is unable to work. He and his wife, Ann, were recently in a car accident and totalled their car and a series of close together life changing incidences, hospital ICU stays, the passing of Ann's dad, where income was lost and Ann is in transition to new employment and does not qualify for unemployment during the transition because her main salary of VA approved and trained full time 24/7 caregiver Ann was paid as an independent contractor. Indepent Contractors do not qualify for unemployment benefits. They are trying to live on the small disabiliity check that John gets and a small part time on line income Ann gets that averages about $250 a month, which brings their monthly income to $876 per month. The household income went from $3,952 per month to the $876. Their little bit of savings and the balance of their checking account was wiped out paying on the funeral and keeping bills paid through two of the past four months since this series of tragic life changing events have happened. Now they are behind on utility bills and have had no money for groceries or gas to put in the van a couple from their church is letting them use as they get back on their feet They are behind in bills and will lose electric and water without your help. John needs oxygen and other medical equipment which uses electricity. Medicare home health will force John into a nursing home if the utilities get shut off. They need financial help to stay afloat while Ann finds, secures, and builds up steady income once again. The only groceries have come from their church that brought some food donations to them when they first got home from the hospital on May 5th via ambulance. They have been living on food from food pantry and food from Project heart. Each source is only once every thirty days. To make it last for thirty days they eat a small rationed amount once a day.
Summary of Events that put John and Ann in a temporary financial crisis are:
Timeline of Life Changing Tragic Events
April 22, 2015
Ann's father, Albert, went into respiratory arrest. John called 911 for an ambulance while Ann worked on resuscitating her father. Ann was sucessful at resuscitating her father by the time the ambulance got to the house. Dad was in bad shape and barely responsive. Ambulance was taking him the 45 miles to Tulsa to Hillcrest Hospital ER. John and Ann gathered dad's med list and other pertinent information needed to check dad into the hospital. John is a paraplegic and it took John and Ann about 15 minutes to get John and his wheelchair loaded into the family car. Then Ann locked the house and John and Ann left to travel to Tulsa to Hillcrest ER. The EMT's when they were loading dad into the ambulance said that they were not sure if Albert would make it all the way to Tulsa or not, but they would do everything they could to get him there. Dad was a veteran and normally would be transported the 75 miles by ambulance to the VA Hospital in Muskogee, OK, but this time he was too bad to make it that far and it would be a miracle if he made it to Tulsa Hospital. John and Ann were about 20 minutes behind the ambulance and on their way into Tulsa when they were involved in a car wreck that totaled their only vehicle. It was a miracle and God and his angels were definitely with them that they survived the wreck and all praise goes to God!
John and Ann had to wave ambulance service at the scene of the accident because the ambulances for them wanted to take them back to Cleveland, OK the opposite direction from Tulsa and back to where the town where they live. They had to get to the same hospital that Ann's father had been taken to in Tulsa. So, one of their church's pastors, Pastor Bob, arranged for a a church member with a van to pick up John and Ann and transport them on into Tulsa to Hillcrest ER where Ann's father was taken. John and Ann did not know if Ann's father was still alive or not until they got to the ER and got themselves checked in. Ann's dad had made it, but he was on life support and not doing well.
Albert and John, who got 5 broken ribs and a cut spleen in the wreck plus multiple cuts and bruises both ended up in ICU. Ann refused treatment, although seriously hurt, so that she would not end up in a hospital bed in ICU too. Ann needed to be by her father's and her husband's bedside and the only way to insure that was that she would refuse treatment for her injuries and hobble between ICU rooms to be by her dad's and husband's bedsides, respectfully. Ann prayed constantly over both of them and slept in a chair at the hospital nights.
April 29th
Ann was briefed by her father's ICU doctor and specialists that her father was experiencing organ failure and there was no more they could do and the best thing would be to disconnect Albert's life support machines and let him pass. Ann went back to John's ICU room to inform him. They prayed together, broke down and cried together with nurses consoling them, and contacted their church to set up the day and time, Saturday, May 2nd, to have their pastor there to pray and be with John and Ann during this difficult time of saying goodbye to Ann's father. What made it even more difficult is that Ann's dad was fully aware, was not in a coma or unconscious, but was able to talk, pray and understand that his kidneys and heart were shutting down and the doctors could do no more for him. Albert accepted what his doctor's advised with tears in his eyes. John and Ann were very close to dad. Life support was disconnected and dad was still holding his own several hours later and the hospital moved him out of ICU (because he was not connected to any machines or IVs) and put Albert in a regular room. Ann visited her dad every couple of hours, prayed with him and talked with him and sang to him. Each visit the hospital chaplain that was on duty would accompany Ann to her father's room. Ann would go back to her husband's bedside in his ICU room and keep him updated.
May 5th
Two ambulances brought Albert, John, and Ann back home. Albert was released home to hospice and the hospice team was at the house when the ambulances got to their home.
May 7th
Dad passed away. One of their pastors was at the house in minutes to pray and minister to John and Ann. Funeral home arrived and took Albert's body to the funeral home for prep for funeral. Albert was a Bronze Star veteran with other military decorations and would receive a military burial with honors at Fort Gibson National Cemetery, Fort Gibson, Oklahoma.
May 7th, 2nd Crisis
Also on May 7th, just a half hour after the funeral home picked up dad and the pastor was leaving, he stopped to pray with Ann over John because John said he woke up not feeling well and was requesting prayer that he would feel better. John was too sick that morning to get up in his wheel chair and go into dad's room for our daily family prayer time and to talk to dad and John had stayed in his hospital bed that morning. Then dad passed away holding Ann's hand just after morning prayers and was talking with Ann and the hospice sitter when he took his last breath. After informing John that dad had passed, John called the church to let them know and one of the pastors was at the house in minutes. Anyway, after the pastor prayed with hospice and Ann in dad's room and then had prayed with John for John to feel better and left to go back to the church. Ann brought John a cup of coffee and he said he was feeling weak and had a chest pain. Ann checked John's vitals and his heart rate was way up to 155 and his oxygen level had dropped to 79 with him on his oxygen. Ann called an ambulance and raised John's oxygen level on the machine. So an hour after dad passed away, John and Ann were in an ambulance headed to Hillcrest ER in Tulsa. John was admitted to ICU at the Oklahoma Heart Institute at Hillcrest Hospital campus. Just after John was admitted and settled into his ICU room his nurse was setting up one of his IVs and taking vitals when John became unresponsive, eyes rolled back in his head, from the lower chest up through his face and both arms turned a deep dark red and he had convulsing tremors, the nurse set the alarm for patient coding and then ran as fast as he could out of the room and came back with several syringes and started pushing the med in the syringes through John's IV as fast as he could. They got John stabilized and then the ICU heart doctor and the nurse told me that John had literally come within seconds of sudden death. The large blood clot had started to move towards the heart from John's left lung and was starting to block a main artery and that is why John went through what he did. If the clot had completely blocked the blood flow through that artery John would have instantly died. The nurse recognized right away what was happening and the heart doctor said had saved John's life because he ran out and got blood thinner and started pushing it through the IV as fast as he could to keep blood flow through that artery. So, just hours after their dad passed away that morning, John came within seconds of dying.
While John was in ICU and recovering, Ann and John were making phone calls and funeral service arrangements. Ann and John soon found out that the funeral home prep and casket are not covered for the veteran. John and Ann wiped out their bank account to pay all they had on the bill, but the funeral home refused to release dad until they were paid in full. An on line fund raiser was started by one of John and Ann's close friends and sister in Christ. John and Ann would pay the funeral home every time a donation came in and would ask and beg the funeral home to do payment arrangements and let dad be released for burial and each time the funeral home refused. This added extra stress, devastation, and depression to Ann and John's grieving over their loss, recovering from their injuries from the wreck, and dealing with John's ICU stay from the blood clot event from John's DVT in his leg, a condition he had since 2012. Some more Christian friends came forward and started to make what the funeral home was doing, holding dad's body hostage for full payment, viral on the Internet (the fund raiser was only half way to the goal needed and was stalled with no more donations) and also friends started calling on news stations to bring the story public. When the funeral home saw all the bad press and the story was going public the funeral home immediately released Albert for burial and agreed to settle for whatever had been paid from John and Ann giving every penny they had and from what the fund raiser had brought in and write off the rest of what was owed. In the public's eye the funeral home was too little too late and they did and will lose business over their actions.
May 23rd
John and Ann arrived back home via ambulance from John's ICU stay at Oklahoma Heart Institute, Hillcrest Hospital campus. Ann, stayed by her husband's side and once again slept in a chair by his bedside during this hospital stay too.
June 23rd
John and Ann, Pastor Kevin, and one of their close friends, Linda, from their church traveled to Fort Gibson for dad's military funeral with honors and burial service.
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With dad's passing the two main incomes of the household went away. Ann took care of her father at home for 16 1/2 years and the last five years of her father, Albert's, life when Albert needed more care and Ann was no longer able to work outside the home so she could be there for all of her increased family care giving role. It was an honor and privilege to care for my father. The VA five years prior when Albert's two lung diseases and him only having one lung left from one dying from the progression of his lung diseases and needed Ann, his VA approved trained and certified family at home care giver, round the clock added to Albert's VA pension a stipend so Albert could pay his daughter, Ann, for being his 24/7 at home family care giver.
Ann is now in a transition period in finding employment. She is also still recovering from injuries from the wreck. Ann does not qualify for unemployment benefits during this transition time of her finding work and getting a steady income coming in once again. John is a paraplegic from a work accident spinal chord injury several years ago. John also has COPD with emphysema, is on Coumadin and is at high risk for bleeding to death or a large blood clot traveling through his heart or other main artery that would be sudden death. It is a struggle every day to keep his blood INR rate in the normal range by the doctors constantly adjusting his Coumadin dosage. John walks a thin line every day between life and death. John cannot work. He is a paraplegic, on medical machines that need electricity, a air pressure matress topper on his hospital bed that needs electricity. John has a specialized manual wheel chair with a special air cushion that has to be plugged into an outlet and charged at night.
In order to conserve electricity and have most of the useage go to John's machines they went without air conditioning this summer and only used a small plug in fan set up to face John. The house was usually 95 to 100 degrees and was unbearable, but there was very little money and the medical machines have priority. Lights are off at dark and only used when needed during a medical emergency, like colostomy bag accident where the bag comes off in middle the night and light is needed to see to clean up the mess, change the colostomy bag, to do a bed bath, and change bedding on John's hospital bed. Also if John is in breathing distress in the night and light is needed to see to administer a nebulizer breathing treatment. Or, light is needed to help with a leaking catheter issue, see to take vitals, take John's blood INR rate if a nurse needs to call Dr. or ambulance needs to be called. All light bulbs were replaced with low wattage energy efficent led bulbs as soon as John, Ann, and dad moved in to this rental house November, 2014. John and Ann hardly ever use the electric cook stove in the kitchen while in this financial transition to conserve and stretch out utility useage. The resources are now depleted and they need financial help now, especially to keep phone and internet on. Ann's part time job with Lawrence Merchandising depends on having phone and internet for her to perform her work duties and report her time and log into the companies website for mandatory meetings, training, and work assignments, and materials needed to download and print to take to assigned retail store job site. Again, only need financial help until Ann gets in a few paychecks into the household.
Please help John and Ann with the basics of keeping on their utilities to keep the medical machines running for John. The only other alternative if the electric and water get shut off and co-pays on prescriptions cannot be paid, then John will be forced by Medicare to go into a nursing home. John's depression has gotten worse at the thought of being forced into a nursing home if the utilities get shut off. John's doctor had to increase his anti-depression and anxiety attack prescriptions.
This is only temporary assistance that John and Ann need to get through this difficult time and keep John from being forced into a nursing home. Ann has just started two part-time jobs that are flexible and she can work from her home office so she can still do all of her care giving duties for her husband she is needed to do and also be at all of John's doctor and specialist and Coumadin clinic appointments that will not interfere with her new flexible work hours. Home health nurses and aides come in part time four days a week.
Ann will not receive her first full part time hours pay check until September 18th from her new part time hourly job that pays $10 per hour plus mileage and materials reimbursement that she just started and is going through training first before being sent out on regular assignments. Ann is dispatched from her home office. She is a field agent for the company. This job with Lawrence Merchandising Services pays their employees twice a month. Ann's first paycheck will only have 5 hours on it and on the September18th payday Ann will have more hours. It will take three or four paydays for John and Ann to get back on budget and on their feet financially again. The job with Lawrence also offers bonuses, especially during the upcoming holidays. The other part time job is a direct sales job and is commission only and will build up, but will take a month or two to get commissions up there that are steady and growing.
John and Ann have paid it forward many times when on their feet financially before going through this current hard time have always done whatever they could to bless and help out others. They still continue to do that through praying and encouraging others going through difficult times right now until they are again able to help others with donations of food and money on fund raisers once again.
Please consider paying it forward and helping out. Thank you for your time in reading the circumstances and why John and Ann need a fund raiser to help them through a temporary difficult time.
The past four months have been life changing with several incidences that only one of those would usually wipe out a person. What has got us through is our strong faith in God, his miracles, and holding and carrying us through the temporary financial wipe out and recovery, the recovery of injuries from the wreck, John's recovery from the blood clot brought about from his DVT in his leg, the grieving period, the hard times and depression and despair of only having food from the local food bank (not much - they have been low a few times, but we patiently go through days with no meals to stretch the little food we have out - you can only go to the food bank once every 30 days) and the fight to keep afloat until Ann's new jobs and paychecks start coming in while fighting to keep John from being forced into a nursing home during this transition has seemed like it has been an eternity, but has only been four months. We are closer and stronger from patiently going through this difficult time in our lives.
Please pray and search your hearts and consider helping out John and Ann during their recovery time from wreck, grieving time from their recent loss of dad, and income transition time to get right side up again after this series of lifetime changing incidents.
Have a blessed day/evening! Praying that all who donate to this fund raiser that God will bless you back abundantly for your kindness, compassion, and empathy.
"Love One Another
…16 We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him? 18 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.…" 1 John 3:16-18
Thank You and God Bless You!
John Anson is a paraplegic, has COPD with emphysema, and has other health issues and he is unable to work. He and his wife, Ann, were recently in a car accident and totalled their car and a series of close together life changing incidences, hospital ICU stays, the passing of Ann's dad, where income was lost and Ann is in transition to new employment and does not qualify for unemployment during the transition because her main salary of VA approved and trained full time 24/7 caregiver Ann was paid as an independent contractor. Indepent Contractors do not qualify for unemployment benefits. They are trying to live on the small disabiliity check that John gets and a small part time on line income Ann gets that averages about $250 a month, which brings their monthly income to $876 per month. The household income went from $3,952 per month to the $876. Their little bit of savings and the balance of their checking account was wiped out paying on the funeral and keeping bills paid through two of the past four months since this series of tragic life changing events have happened. Now they are behind on utility bills and have had no money for groceries or gas to put in the van a couple from their church is letting them use as they get back on their feet They are behind in bills and will lose electric and water without your help. John needs oxygen and other medical equipment which uses electricity. Medicare home health will force John into a nursing home if the utilities get shut off. They need financial help to stay afloat while Ann finds, secures, and builds up steady income once again. The only groceries have come from their church that brought some food donations to them when they first got home from the hospital on May 5th via ambulance. They have been living on food from food pantry and food from Project heart. Each source is only once every thirty days. To make it last for thirty days they eat a small rationed amount once a day.
Summary of Events that put John and Ann in a temporary financial crisis are:
Timeline of Life Changing Tragic Events
April 22, 2015
Ann's father, Albert, went into respiratory arrest. John called 911 for an ambulance while Ann worked on resuscitating her father. Ann was sucessful at resuscitating her father by the time the ambulance got to the house. Dad was in bad shape and barely responsive. Ambulance was taking him the 45 miles to Tulsa to Hillcrest Hospital ER. John and Ann gathered dad's med list and other pertinent information needed to check dad into the hospital. John is a paraplegic and it took John and Ann about 15 minutes to get John and his wheelchair loaded into the family car. Then Ann locked the house and John and Ann left to travel to Tulsa to Hillcrest ER. The EMT's when they were loading dad into the ambulance said that they were not sure if Albert would make it all the way to Tulsa or not, but they would do everything they could to get him there. Dad was a veteran and normally would be transported the 75 miles by ambulance to the VA Hospital in Muskogee, OK, but this time he was too bad to make it that far and it would be a miracle if he made it to Tulsa Hospital. John and Ann were about 20 minutes behind the ambulance and on their way into Tulsa when they were involved in a car wreck that totaled their only vehicle. It was a miracle and God and his angels were definitely with them that they survived the wreck and all praise goes to God!
John and Ann had to wave ambulance service at the scene of the accident because the ambulances for them wanted to take them back to Cleveland, OK the opposite direction from Tulsa and back to where the town where they live. They had to get to the same hospital that Ann's father had been taken to in Tulsa. So, one of their church's pastors, Pastor Bob, arranged for a a church member with a van to pick up John and Ann and transport them on into Tulsa to Hillcrest ER where Ann's father was taken. John and Ann did not know if Ann's father was still alive or not until they got to the ER and got themselves checked in. Ann's dad had made it, but he was on life support and not doing well.
Albert and John, who got 5 broken ribs and a cut spleen in the wreck plus multiple cuts and bruises both ended up in ICU. Ann refused treatment, although seriously hurt, so that she would not end up in a hospital bed in ICU too. Ann needed to be by her father's and her husband's bedside and the only way to insure that was that she would refuse treatment for her injuries and hobble between ICU rooms to be by her dad's and husband's bedsides, respectfully. Ann prayed constantly over both of them and slept in a chair at the hospital nights.
April 29th
Ann was briefed by her father's ICU doctor and specialists that her father was experiencing organ failure and there was no more they could do and the best thing would be to disconnect Albert's life support machines and let him pass. Ann went back to John's ICU room to inform him. They prayed together, broke down and cried together with nurses consoling them, and contacted their church to set up the day and time, Saturday, May 2nd, to have their pastor there to pray and be with John and Ann during this difficult time of saying goodbye to Ann's father. What made it even more difficult is that Ann's dad was fully aware, was not in a coma or unconscious, but was able to talk, pray and understand that his kidneys and heart were shutting down and the doctors could do no more for him. Albert accepted what his doctor's advised with tears in his eyes. John and Ann were very close to dad. Life support was disconnected and dad was still holding his own several hours later and the hospital moved him out of ICU (because he was not connected to any machines or IVs) and put Albert in a regular room. Ann visited her dad every couple of hours, prayed with him and talked with him and sang to him. Each visit the hospital chaplain that was on duty would accompany Ann to her father's room. Ann would go back to her husband's bedside in his ICU room and keep him updated.
May 5th
Two ambulances brought Albert, John, and Ann back home. Albert was released home to hospice and the hospice team was at the house when the ambulances got to their home.
May 7th
Dad passed away. One of their pastors was at the house in minutes to pray and minister to John and Ann. Funeral home arrived and took Albert's body to the funeral home for prep for funeral. Albert was a Bronze Star veteran with other military decorations and would receive a military burial with honors at Fort Gibson National Cemetery, Fort Gibson, Oklahoma.
May 7th, 2nd Crisis
Also on May 7th, just a half hour after the funeral home picked up dad and the pastor was leaving, he stopped to pray with Ann over John because John said he woke up not feeling well and was requesting prayer that he would feel better. John was too sick that morning to get up in his wheel chair and go into dad's room for our daily family prayer time and to talk to dad and John had stayed in his hospital bed that morning. Then dad passed away holding Ann's hand just after morning prayers and was talking with Ann and the hospice sitter when he took his last breath. After informing John that dad had passed, John called the church to let them know and one of the pastors was at the house in minutes. Anyway, after the pastor prayed with hospice and Ann in dad's room and then had prayed with John for John to feel better and left to go back to the church. Ann brought John a cup of coffee and he said he was feeling weak and had a chest pain. Ann checked John's vitals and his heart rate was way up to 155 and his oxygen level had dropped to 79 with him on his oxygen. Ann called an ambulance and raised John's oxygen level on the machine. So an hour after dad passed away, John and Ann were in an ambulance headed to Hillcrest ER in Tulsa. John was admitted to ICU at the Oklahoma Heart Institute at Hillcrest Hospital campus. Just after John was admitted and settled into his ICU room his nurse was setting up one of his IVs and taking vitals when John became unresponsive, eyes rolled back in his head, from the lower chest up through his face and both arms turned a deep dark red and he had convulsing tremors, the nurse set the alarm for patient coding and then ran as fast as he could out of the room and came back with several syringes and started pushing the med in the syringes through John's IV as fast as he could. They got John stabilized and then the ICU heart doctor and the nurse told me that John had literally come within seconds of sudden death. The large blood clot had started to move towards the heart from John's left lung and was starting to block a main artery and that is why John went through what he did. If the clot had completely blocked the blood flow through that artery John would have instantly died. The nurse recognized right away what was happening and the heart doctor said had saved John's life because he ran out and got blood thinner and started pushing it through the IV as fast as he could to keep blood flow through that artery. So, just hours after their dad passed away that morning, John came within seconds of dying.
While John was in ICU and recovering, Ann and John were making phone calls and funeral service arrangements. Ann and John soon found out that the funeral home prep and casket are not covered for the veteran. John and Ann wiped out their bank account to pay all they had on the bill, but the funeral home refused to release dad until they were paid in full. An on line fund raiser was started by one of John and Ann's close friends and sister in Christ. John and Ann would pay the funeral home every time a donation came in and would ask and beg the funeral home to do payment arrangements and let dad be released for burial and each time the funeral home refused. This added extra stress, devastation, and depression to Ann and John's grieving over their loss, recovering from their injuries from the wreck, and dealing with John's ICU stay from the blood clot event from John's DVT in his leg, a condition he had since 2012. Some more Christian friends came forward and started to make what the funeral home was doing, holding dad's body hostage for full payment, viral on the Internet (the fund raiser was only half way to the goal needed and was stalled with no more donations) and also friends started calling on news stations to bring the story public. When the funeral home saw all the bad press and the story was going public the funeral home immediately released Albert for burial and agreed to settle for whatever had been paid from John and Ann giving every penny they had and from what the fund raiser had brought in and write off the rest of what was owed. In the public's eye the funeral home was too little too late and they did and will lose business over their actions.
May 23rd
John and Ann arrived back home via ambulance from John's ICU stay at Oklahoma Heart Institute, Hillcrest Hospital campus. Ann, stayed by her husband's side and once again slept in a chair by his bedside during this hospital stay too.
June 23rd
John and Ann, Pastor Kevin, and one of their close friends, Linda, from their church traveled to Fort Gibson for dad's military funeral with honors and burial service.
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With dad's passing the two main incomes of the household went away. Ann took care of her father at home for 16 1/2 years and the last five years of her father, Albert's, life when Albert needed more care and Ann was no longer able to work outside the home so she could be there for all of her increased family care giving role. It was an honor and privilege to care for my father. The VA five years prior when Albert's two lung diseases and him only having one lung left from one dying from the progression of his lung diseases and needed Ann, his VA approved trained and certified family at home care giver, round the clock added to Albert's VA pension a stipend so Albert could pay his daughter, Ann, for being his 24/7 at home family care giver.
Ann is now in a transition period in finding employment. She is also still recovering from injuries from the wreck. Ann does not qualify for unemployment benefits during this transition time of her finding work and getting a steady income coming in once again. John is a paraplegic from a work accident spinal chord injury several years ago. John also has COPD with emphysema, is on Coumadin and is at high risk for bleeding to death or a large blood clot traveling through his heart or other main artery that would be sudden death. It is a struggle every day to keep his blood INR rate in the normal range by the doctors constantly adjusting his Coumadin dosage. John walks a thin line every day between life and death. John cannot work. He is a paraplegic, on medical machines that need electricity, a air pressure matress topper on his hospital bed that needs electricity. John has a specialized manual wheel chair with a special air cushion that has to be plugged into an outlet and charged at night.
In order to conserve electricity and have most of the useage go to John's machines they went without air conditioning this summer and only used a small plug in fan set up to face John. The house was usually 95 to 100 degrees and was unbearable, but there was very little money and the medical machines have priority. Lights are off at dark and only used when needed during a medical emergency, like colostomy bag accident where the bag comes off in middle the night and light is needed to see to clean up the mess, change the colostomy bag, to do a bed bath, and change bedding on John's hospital bed. Also if John is in breathing distress in the night and light is needed to see to administer a nebulizer breathing treatment. Or, light is needed to help with a leaking catheter issue, see to take vitals, take John's blood INR rate if a nurse needs to call Dr. or ambulance needs to be called. All light bulbs were replaced with low wattage energy efficent led bulbs as soon as John, Ann, and dad moved in to this rental house November, 2014. John and Ann hardly ever use the electric cook stove in the kitchen while in this financial transition to conserve and stretch out utility useage. The resources are now depleted and they need financial help now, especially to keep phone and internet on. Ann's part time job with Lawrence Merchandising depends on having phone and internet for her to perform her work duties and report her time and log into the companies website for mandatory meetings, training, and work assignments, and materials needed to download and print to take to assigned retail store job site. Again, only need financial help until Ann gets in a few paychecks into the household.
Please help John and Ann with the basics of keeping on their utilities to keep the medical machines running for John. The only other alternative if the electric and water get shut off and co-pays on prescriptions cannot be paid, then John will be forced by Medicare to go into a nursing home. John's depression has gotten worse at the thought of being forced into a nursing home if the utilities get shut off. John's doctor had to increase his anti-depression and anxiety attack prescriptions.
This is only temporary assistance that John and Ann need to get through this difficult time and keep John from being forced into a nursing home. Ann has just started two part-time jobs that are flexible and she can work from her home office so she can still do all of her care giving duties for her husband she is needed to do and also be at all of John's doctor and specialist and Coumadin clinic appointments that will not interfere with her new flexible work hours. Home health nurses and aides come in part time four days a week.
Ann will not receive her first full part time hours pay check until September 18th from her new part time hourly job that pays $10 per hour plus mileage and materials reimbursement that she just started and is going through training first before being sent out on regular assignments. Ann is dispatched from her home office. She is a field agent for the company. This job with Lawrence Merchandising Services pays their employees twice a month. Ann's first paycheck will only have 5 hours on it and on the September18th payday Ann will have more hours. It will take three or four paydays for John and Ann to get back on budget and on their feet financially again. The job with Lawrence also offers bonuses, especially during the upcoming holidays. The other part time job is a direct sales job and is commission only and will build up, but will take a month or two to get commissions up there that are steady and growing.
John and Ann have paid it forward many times when on their feet financially before going through this current hard time have always done whatever they could to bless and help out others. They still continue to do that through praying and encouraging others going through difficult times right now until they are again able to help others with donations of food and money on fund raisers once again.
Please consider paying it forward and helping out. Thank you for your time in reading the circumstances and why John and Ann need a fund raiser to help them through a temporary difficult time.
The past four months have been life changing with several incidences that only one of those would usually wipe out a person. What has got us through is our strong faith in God, his miracles, and holding and carrying us through the temporary financial wipe out and recovery, the recovery of injuries from the wreck, John's recovery from the blood clot brought about from his DVT in his leg, the grieving period, the hard times and depression and despair of only having food from the local food bank (not much - they have been low a few times, but we patiently go through days with no meals to stretch the little food we have out - you can only go to the food bank once every 30 days) and the fight to keep afloat until Ann's new jobs and paychecks start coming in while fighting to keep John from being forced into a nursing home during this transition has seemed like it has been an eternity, but has only been four months. We are closer and stronger from patiently going through this difficult time in our lives.
Please pray and search your hearts and consider helping out John and Ann during their recovery time from wreck, grieving time from their recent loss of dad, and income transition time to get right side up again after this series of lifetime changing incidents.
Have a blessed day/evening! Praying that all who donate to this fund raiser that God will bless you back abundantly for your kindness, compassion, and empathy.
"Love One Another
…16 We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him? 18 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.…" 1 John 3:16-18
Thank You and God Bless You!
Organizer
John and Ann Anson
Organizer
Cleveland, OK