
Aid a Young Family Facing Medical and Financial Hardship
I am a mom to a 2 year old and a teacher to 6th/7th who has to be on Extended Medical/Sick Leave due to some of my health concerns. I'm 32 and married with one son, and my husband just recently had to start accepting short-term disability from his job. Due to monitoring a condition (a 6 cm cyst, PCOS, and Endometriosis with smaller, rupturing cysts) before surgically removing the large cyst and likely one of my ovaries, I have to be out of work. I receive a little pay, but it won't be enough with my husband also getting only a little pay. Bills have been harder to pay, and it's hard to take care of yourself and any health concerns when you know you have a family to take care of. We are 1400 miles from any physical support systems in family and friends, and when we moved in search of new beginnings and stable, higher paying jobs, we thought we'd have it made. But life happens, and now, with a surgery my 2 year old had a couple months ago, the medical issues my husband has been having, and my own at times debilitating symptoms before surgery, we find ourselves short on bills, and we've already had to take my little guy out of daycare, at least temporarily until I am able to go back to work and afford that extra expense again. Anything is much appreciated, but even just reading this and considering my little family and I is greatly appreciated! I am sure there is more I could say, but I'll leave it at that for now.