Jill Colton get back up on her feet!!

UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi everybody,

I just want to express my sincere love & appreciation to all who have been there for me during this difficult time. We never see it coming, do we? ~ then suddenly we are in this life experience not knowing how we got here or how to get out. I’m truly thankful for all of you.

I kind of crashed & burned after moving to Florida in January & a few weeks ago I was hospitalized . I noticed after relocating - I was feeling physically sick, getting worse & worse but I also kept minimizing it, thinking I was fine, dismissing how truly bad I felt & how sick I was becoming. Numbness, tingling, dizziness, nauseous, chest pain, so exhausted & everything was taking so much time to do even the simplest tasks. I became so forgetful. I got all turned around cognitively & kept forgetting basic things - I was such a mess- but I didn't realize I was a mess... like it got to the point where didn't know how to open the fridge . Not having any sick days, my income was affected, I started to get behind on all my bills.

Basically, the wheels fell off the wagon I could barely walk by the time I got to the ER & I was admitted immediately. Turned out I was in hypovolemic shock-approaching kidney failure - all because the bp pill that I've been on for a decade in Maine - is a diuretic- a water pill. Since it's much hotter here & I was more active walking the dogs all the time, I was sweating a lot more, losing more fluid & basically all my electrolytes just totally bottomed out. So thankful to the amazing staff at Flagler Hospital.

A few days before I was in the hospital- I ended up losing my new job, having catastrophic financial consequences. I just couldn't think straight & my new employer didn't know that's very unlike me. I'm usually sharp as a damn tack - but to them I was forgetting things, needing taking sick days, etc. Also being a private stoic New Englander - I never told them how truly sick I was.

After I was discharged, I was still having significantly impaired ability to function - yet I continued to not reach out to family/friends & ask for help - thinking I could turn it around like I had a million other times in my life ~ but sadly that was not the case. I did apply to every program imaginable but didn't qualify for any help, funding, housing aid, general assistance, relief programs, etc.

Having no income, & having spent all my resources on the move, startup costs of relocating ~ the situation just got worse & worse.

Eventually my car got repossessed (so embarrassing) & my landlord could not work with me. They brought me to court last week & my lease was terminated.

I have been able to get a new job - I’m onboarding this week & will soon be able to start bringing in some income but won’t get paid for another month or so.

Thankfully the courts are behind, so the writ of possession hasn't been posted on my door yet.

I'm packing up as we speak & Auntie Betsy co-signed an apartment for me today which is just an absolute miracle - so grateful for her love, support & generosity.

My super kind, loving & generous friends started a GoFundMe - thank you Eva♥️ - to help get me out of this mess. Click on the link if the giving spirit so moves you & please know

if you’re not able to donate I more than understand~ I totally can’t donate towards anyone’s cause right now either ‍♀️❤️~ but I will when I can.

Perhaps you could share this link with your friends, family, followers & it can go wherever it may lead.

Thank you to everyone, you have all been so kind, loving & generous. I’m so grateful to have you all in my life.

Much love & gratitude ~ Jill