1. I am 75 years old. And have become severely disabled.
2. I have become mostly bed ridden with congestive heart failure and vascular blockages and need additional surgeries for that.
3.I have nerve damage in my lower back which prohibits me from walking, standing, sitting and even lying down in certain positions for more than 5 to 10 minutes.
4. I have cataracts and I’m slowly losing my sight.
5. I have diabetic neuropathy and wounds on my legs that will not heal properly
6. Other than meager Social Security retirement which doesn’t even cover my rent I have no more sources of income and have run out of my ability to borrow money. I need money to pay for everything else other than rent which includes medical, food, Internet, energy, my extensive medications, or anything else necessary to survive just for basic needs.
7. I have one more month left to be able to stay in my apartment and then I will be homeless.
8. I would not be able to last a few days without having a home for me to take care of my medical needs and my dog Sophie.
9. I live alone and moved to Eugene OR five years ago from California and I have not been able to establish myself with any kind of friendships whereas in the past I have been able to make friends very easily.
10. I have no more family left that can help me and most of my friends have died and the ones that are left are barely surviving themselves.
11. There is no financial aid available to me at this time or ever with this current political atmosphere.
12. Also, if I go homeless I will not be able to care for Sophie. She is so dedicated to me and since we only have each other, that if I had to give her away, it would be better for me to have to put her down because she would spend the rest of her life with a broken heart without me.
13. Sophie is a service dog. She can smell my breath and let me know if my blood sugar is low. She is so disciplined, loving and respectful. When I shop with her she sits in the electric grocery cart, I have to fight off people who ignore me and start to pet her like they are in a trance.
WHO AM I:
I am considered to be a polymath. This means that I am an expert in many different areas of creativity. I was recently inducted into “Who’s Who in America.” I am a retired architect, artist, musician, and educator forced into retirement because of my health. In the 90s I was elected educator of the year at the Academy of Art University Architecture and Design school. Some of my international students have gone on to produce amazing architectural projects that you see in Asia and Europe all the time now. I have several published books that I have written but I’ve never had the resources to promote them properly so the income from that is less than $100 a year. My books are about how to show people how to tap into their own genius to be creative dynamos. I have spent my whole life helping other people. I get more pleasure and satisfaction helping others than myself and now my dog.
In 2006 I had my whole life’s savings embezzled from me and because of my age with age discrimination and over qualification in my ever increasing disabilities, I was never able to secure any kind of gainful employment. I have been struggling to survive all this time through piecemeal work I was getting through other architects that I had known over the years that could only hire me on a contractual basis and now they have retired and I have no more resources.
It is even very difficult for me to write this funding request as my sight is failing, I have become very dyslexic, and it is hard for me to concentrate with all of the pain medication I am under. To make matters worse, the architectural skills I used to do to make a living have been replaced by A.I.
I don’t know how to be any more sincere in appealing to you to help me get through this difficult part of my life. I have a potential lawsuit with 12 others against an exploitive spiritual organization that I am not allowed to speak about at this time. These kinds of lawsuits can take years to resolve and I need to be able to survive till that time.
All totaled up, for 2 years living expenses, medical bills past and in the future, including at least several surgeries and procedures, paying off my loans, taking care of Sophie my dog and getting assisted living help and possibly getting some of into an art show, I need to raise $150,000 +dollars.
Should I be able to gain my health back to any workable levels, I want to be able to pursue helping people with programs I have designed and written about in my book, ” In The Eye Of Einstein,” for children and adults becoming their own genius and even helping older people to maintain and increase mental acuity. But right now I am like the cobbler who has no shoes.
Please help
