Homelessness is looming & we’re in need of help.

*****PLEASE READ CURRENT UPDATES BELOW*****

This is my beyond desperate stress call for help. I have laid in the bed I have at the moment, crying for more days than I’d like to admit. I’m beyond embarrassed to even ask for any kind of help in this type of manner. I know this is long novel but it’ll help you understand our dire situation. If you wish to donate in any other way not on this platform, please reach out. We have a PayPal set up as well.

paypal.com/pools/c/8VPlIE1Tdq

$reiosun

My apologies for the novel.

This is not the way I wanted to do this at all but I have no choice. I was planning on a happy announcement on this day (and it still is) but it’s coming at a time where my stress levels are far beyond what I could ever tell anyone with words.

Before I go into it, I am truly happy, regardless of the situation right now, to announce that I am 21 weeks pregnant with another little boy, and I can’t wait to meet him. It was planned, but maybe we picked the wrong time to plan it. With our move and the trail of bad luck we’ve had, it’s unfortunately been the most stressful pregnancy that I can imagine. I feel so bad for the Little Peanut. I have faith he’s strong and healthy and will get through this, even though I have no idea what’s going on inside there.

Currently we moved South to AZ to better things, be near family, and have some sun for once. Im glad to be back in my home state but when we got here the things we had planned didn’t work out and now we’re looming a week away from being legit homeless. It’s a reality that’s all too real and I don’t know what to do. We had so much saved up for this move to get into a house and start over but it wasn’t as easy as we thought.

Upon arriving in AZ, we offloaded our lives into a storage unit and then we immediately had a bad luck breakdown/car repair that left us spending a ton of money on our car and also car rentals that we did not plan for. It was a week of the mechanic messing up the order twice, and then-some before we even got our car back. A lot of time was lost and extra stress was added. Having 2 Dogs, a cat and a toddler in tow, as well as being pregnant… this really was the start of everything just trickling down into a dark hole.

We thought for sure finding a rental home would be easy, especially with how many are available (side note, the houses we applied at and went to look at over a month ago, still haven’t rented and I keep getting notified of their price drops… so this confuses me). They just all want absolute perfect credit and even though, at that time that we were looking, we could have paid nearly three months rent ahead to give them peace of mind that we would in fact pay our rent. They still didn’t want to approve us because we just moved here and are looking actively for jobs. Thought we had stuff lined up, and then it just didn’t work out.

Because we couldn’t get into any housing, we’ve had to completely waste every cent we have on hopping hotels and cheap Airbnb’s. We’ve depleted all of our money now because of this and the car breakdown. I’ll tell you right now, hopping hotels with two dogs and a child is far from luxurious, it is the most stressful thing ever.

It’s impossible to stay with anyone we know when you have two dogs, a cat, a toddler and two of us. As of the 19th… I don’t know what we’re going to do. The last of our money was spent on a place to stay that we’ve been in for 21 days and on the 19th is when we have to checkout.

Arick has the most amazing skills and knowledge, that if we were still in the Pacific Northwest, people have fought to have him on their team. He’s been actively applying, day in and day out, for any Restaurant Management job that pops up, and pays at least the salary he made before. He’s had recruiters talk him up, help him with his resume, cover letter, and provide help on how to answer questions during interviews. He’s had plenty of interviews with promising outlooks. The recruiters have given promising leads. 35 days of solidly looking and nothing. All the weight of the world is now on our shoulders.

Jobs are out there but the market is overloaded with resumes of people just flooding the system because they are required to “look for a job” for some sort of unemployment or state funding. It makes Arick’s resume get lost in a mess of ones that don’t even have the right qualifications. So it’s been very hard. At this point both of us are trying so hard to stay out of this very dark, depressive state that all this has brought on. But it’s incredibly hard to keep treading water with your head barely above the surface. I’m especially feeling emotional because of my pregnancy.

To put the icing on the cake, I started applying to get the health insurance on June 5th. I need it so bad for Oliver and I, so that’s been a massive stress for me. Especially with these pregnant circumstances. I haven’t seen a doctor about my pregnancy since May 30th and haven’t had any scans or ultrasounds since my very first one on April 26th. It is the most terrifying thing right now, not knowing what’s going on in there. I’m also 43 years and at a high risk as well as RH negative, meaning I need a “shot” of Rhogham soon, otherwise my body could basically start attacking the baby like a virus, resulting in not so great things. I have two weeks before I desperately need that.

And trust me I have dove down deep holes on the web and talked to so many places about this and trying to get some sort of care, but a strange reality is no one provides care or help for second time moms or care for anyone past the second trimester. I have literally tapped the well on places to contact about this. Yes, everything and everywhere. They all refer me to the same place and My application for health insurance with them was in limbo until July 7th. I finally got the call and they approved me. Only the lady I chatted with put me on the plan I told her I did not want, so now I’m Back to many phone calls of being on hold for 2 hours at a time just so I can switch my plan. Then who knows how long that’ll take to go into effect. The reason for wanting to switch you ask? No one takes the plan she put me on. That was another mayhem of phone calls, emails turndowns I had to deal with just now. Bad luck. I went down that rabbit hole as well.

Every Maternal Fetal Medicine place wouldn’t accept that Medicaid. Nor would any OBGYN who was accepting new patients. It’s been a mess. An absolute mess. And after dealing with Arizona healthcare system for people in my position, I find it to be truly broken and it makes me miss the phenomenal care I had in the PNW.

I don’t expect anyone to do so because everyone is going through a tough time, but if you would like to gift us anything to help our situation, so we can at least get another place to stay for an extended bit, we would be much appreciative for anything to help us out of all the bad luck we’ve been having and to move forward. We need help so desperately with this. It’ll be less stress in trying to find jobs and less stress of our poor dogs and toddler having to be bounced around from place to place. And with only a week until we have zero money and nowhere to go, who even knows what’s gonna happen then.

This money will go straight to another place to stay for a month (like a cheap Airbnb because they welcome long stays with no deposits), as well as our next storage unit payment, and gas to find a job.

And very importantly… Right now, and definitely in the next few days, I need the universe to grant Arick the well paying job he deserves. He’s worked so hard his whole life to better his skills in his industry, and he’s the hardest working person I know. He applies and talks to people daily. He’s so deserving of something good. I don’t want him to start feeling remorse for me wanting us to move somewhere south and then having all this bad luck happen. So come on universe…. Help a man out here! He deserves it!

…end rant & my apologies for being quiet to the people I know texting with questions lately. I am fighting a pretty bad depression over this… I feel ashamed, embarrassed, and pretty low for having to reach out like this.

Thank you all for your help. Send some prayers out for us please. <3