Financial Worries

Name: Helen
Location: Culpeper, VA
Caregiver Relationship: Parent
Living Arrangements: Share Home
Primary Illness: Renal Disease

My mom present suffers from renal failure, diabetes, high blood pressure and a history of mini strokes. I have been a caregiver now for almost seven years.

I do not receive any type of help with dealing with caring for my mom. We live every day in hope that there will be enough food to last through the month. I had to give up my job the last time she got sick, so it has not been easy for me. Each and every day I pray that the car will not break down. We haven't the money to give to a taxi service.

The only good thing about all this is that my mom is still alive. I never get a break for myself. Never have time for friends or a movie. There is no help out there it seems for those who have given up everything. Each and everyday I pray that GOD will keep me strong for my mom’s sake. Money is the second worry in my life.

I wish that I could get up enough money to have a dependable car to transport my mom back and forth to dialysis and the doctors and not worry that we will break down and try to figure out where the money is going to come from to fix it. To have enough money to get my moms prescriptions when she run out. I pray for justice for the elderly.

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