Help Sarah MacDowell pay rent after medical needs
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Over the last 15 months Sarah MacDowell has had at least 17 hospital admissions. Through this time she has had 6 surgeries and multiple complications due to type 1 diabetes and Graves disease. She had covid 19 and was hospitalized in May 2020. She began suffering from low blood pressure which has caused her to black out without warning leading to a surgery for a broken hip which came while recovering after surgery for her broken shoulder plus numerous other injuries in 2020. All this leading to not being able to work for months at a time and only being able to work part time for a total of about 4 months last year. Most recently due to complications from diabetes she had to have her toe amputated and take another leave from work to recover. She had applied for disability and been denied, then reapplied and is now waiting (they say it could be 6 months or more before she even hears). When waiting for disability you can't collect unemployment, so there's no help there. She applied for FMLA but was denied because she hadn't worked enough hours last year. Because of the moratorium on evictions she couldn't be evicted last year but recently things changed and she was told during a hearing with housing court she would need to pay her rent going forward and would still need to be out on July 1st. After this last set back (the amputation) she isn't going to be able make her rent payments and still can't work. I know the pandemic has been tough on everyone and completely understand if someone can't help out. Anything helps, no matter how small. And if you can share this with anyone who may know her and/or may help, please do so! God bless and stay safe
Organizer and beneficiary
Gordon Burnham
Organizer
Gloucester, MA
Sarah MacDowell
Beneficiary