I served in the US Navy for 5.5 years, until I was discharged due to Gulf War Syndrome or more familiarly known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia, and my inability to continue my work as a Newspapee Journalist. I was devastated that the doctors could not help me get well as I was looking forward to continuing my training to become a Broadcast Journalist and eventually become a news anchor on someone's local TV someday. I have been forced to spend my days on the couch or running to the bathroom as I also have Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Diarrhea and anal incontinence.

I have been filing disability claims with the Veterans Administration (VA) for the last 30 years because I am unemployable. Remember I was discharged honorably due to illness, and then received Social Security Disability benefits almost immediately for the same illnesses. But the VA still refuses to pay me 30 years of retroactive benefits and says I only rate a 40% disability rating rather than 100%. I fiiled another Supplemental Claim last year and just received another denial today.

I also received today a 10-day notice to pay past due rent of approximately $6,500 or eviction proceedings will begin. I currently live in a senior independent living apartment community, one step below Assisted Living which costs twice as much. I lost my home that was paid for with my inheritance when my second parent died, because I was too proud to let anyone know I did not have the $495 for a forced landscaping fee trumped up by my land lease property manager to get me out of the active adult 55+ community I had lived in for 13 years. Can you believe this? I was locked out of my own home because I could not pay a lot rent, forced to sell my house so I could pay rent in an apartment and lost $50,000 when selling my inheritance home.

I don't know how I am going to continue to pay rent that is going up by 40% in our area when I have been evicted twice in 2.5 years and facing a third this month. I don't know where I can find a place I can afford, how I can pay movers to pack & move my belongings when I still owe the last mover $795. Not only do I need financial assistance for this move, but I need a solution to break this cycle.

I don't know what to do. I need someone to come alongside me and counsel me on how to live within my means when the cost of living continues to rise as I age and my medical needs continue to climb.

I have a total debt of about $15,000 and no car. I cannot get to my medical appointments any more, cannot afford rideshare and cannot take public transportation due to the diarrhea. So I need to pay all my bills, find a place to live that I can afford until the VA pays me the additional monthly amount they owe me and 30 years of retroactive benefits, and get a car again (which I have never been without since I was 16 years old. I also am single and have no more family support as they all turned their backs on my during my last move. I have a sister who owes me several thousand dollars I loaned her when she went back to college. I have one son who never paid me back the $7,000 down payment I made for him when he bought his first car. I am alone and penniless, and not long left on this earth. I just want to rest peacefully, as comfortable is not possible when in constant physical pain and mental distress from the many traumas I've gone through, in a comfortable home for the time I have left.

Thank you for reading this and God bless you for your help. By the way, I have always volunteered my time when I could and in ways that weren't too strenuous. For example, I grow my hair and donate it for wigs for cancer patients. I served on a disability task force at church to help people get rides to church and sign language.