Please Help Us..Pay Rent and Take Sick Dog to Vet.

Hello Everyone.

My name is Mark and I'm trying to raise some funds to keep me and my wife and our pets from the streets.

A little background... I'm currently out of work trying to fight for Social Security because I have severe mental health issues.. I am diagnosed with PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, Bi-Polar, ADHD and Insomnia, so basically my brain is a living Hell most days and I just try to stay alive. I am on allot of medications and go to therapy which does help but doesn't allow me to maintain gainful employment. Which, in turn just makes my depression worse because I feel like a loser who can't help his family. So, for now I fight for disability.

My wonderful wife of 15 years, Stephanie was working but is needing to take some time off...About 9 months ago she attempted suicide. It almost broke me. I didn't realize she was hurting that bad. Thankfully, I found her in time and she got rushed to the hospital. She had to take some time off from work so we lost our apartment. We had a friend at the time who had an extra room that she said we could stay in.

Sadly, this was not a good fit for either party and it became a toxic situation that we had to rush to get out of, which bring me to our next sad adventure. We had to live out of our mini van for two months. We couldn't have our animals with us and we were never sure how we would eat or take care of our necessities....

After being in the van for two months we were finally able to find a room for rent that is a weekly rental. The good news is with Stephanie working we could afford it, the bad news is it's in a terrible part of the city and since it is pay by the week the people here aren't all very trustworthy. An example is there was a shooting on the floor above is a couple days ago and we've seen people smoking meth in the hallways. Three room itself is decent but we certainly don't feel safe out of the room..

The next thing to happen is our mini van stopped working so we no longer have a vehicle and have to rely on the bus or our daughter who helps when she can.

Then to top of my last couple of months of Hell, my Best Friend... Tiki...My emotional support animal that I got when he was a kitten and have had for almost 18 years and we thought was doing well, literally died on me at two o clock in the morning. I'm thankful I was actually still awake but I don't know if I'll ever get the picture of my guy taking his last breath. We didn't even have time to get him to an emergency vet. Even now my heart breaks more writing this.. I thought I had more time.. After that happened I became very suicidal and didn't get out of bed or eat for days. Stephanie had to stay home and watch me because I wasn't safe... Which, meant losing pay we needed to keep the room for rent...

Then, to top off the week about six days later are almost two in the morning again our dog Cooper had what we think was a seizure but could have been other things. We were able to get him to the vet and found out he has quite a few things in his blood work that concerned the vet.. They want to do more tests that we just can't afford.

We had to spend over $300 to get Tiki cremated that we weren't planning on or had the savings to afford. Then with Cooper it was over $400 to run the blood work and he needs more tests because there is a disease that dogs can get that he has signs for....

So, after all of this Stephanie again isn't doing well and right now I haven't been in the best shape to be there, we're both hurting allot, that Stephanie has missed allot of work and we're behind in paying for the room and we're really scared they'll kick us out soon and we have no one to stay with and we don't even have a vehicle to stay in. We can't handle after everything that's happened recently to also be homeless so we're trying to raise enough money to keep the roof over our heads, get some food and try to take care of Cooper....

I know that was allot to read but we wanted to share our whole story so you knew we are good people, who are trying to get by and we're just having a really tough go right now and could use some help.

Thank You