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sparky68  

needy recovering alcoholic

I am 42yrs old recently clean and sober. I am also a cancer survivor needing dental work done. I am in a difficult possition because I can't have my teeth extracted because of radiation. I was told that due to the radiation my bone won't heal right so I can't pull my teeth. I had a root canal done and it lasted two almost 3 years but the tooth got infected. Now I have no insurance and no job, no money and. Almost no hope. I need a miracle it seems. What do I do? Who has sugestions? Please help me?
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RecoveringAngel  

Recovering Alcoholic and full time student needs financial help

I am a 25 year old recovering alcoholic.  I have been sober for 10 months and am in my second semester of college.  It's been very difficult for me to find with the poor employment markets right now and also it's very hard to find a job that can work around my school schedule.  I am trying to start over but it's difficult when I can barely pay for school/rent/food/car insurance...etc.  It's very difficult to ask for help but somtimes that's all we can do.  If anyone would feel gracious enough to want to donate any funds to help me with my education I would greatly appreciate it.  You can contact me at RecoveringAngel21@yahoo.com

 

Thank you and God bless.

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livinsober3  

Looking for Assistance

Hello!

My name is Amy.  I'm a 32 year old female who has two children.  I'm an ex-drug addict who has been recovering for 3 years.  As a result of my drug use and not taking care of myself, I have done severe damage to my teeth.

I'm looking for help to get my teeth fixed.  I do not have dental insurance and I am on disability for fibromyalgia.  Suggestions are greatly apprecitated.

I've always been the kind of person with low self-esteem, but now it's worse.  I want to look in the mirror and be able to smile with confidence.   

I have a dream to help other recovering addicts to achieve the same clean and sober living experience that I have and to one day open a coffee shop for recovering addicts/alcoholics.

I am also enrolled at Kaplan University as a student in psychology.

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RachelChere'  

PLEASE HELP MY FAMILY

Daughter of an Alcoholic Father in desperate need of help. My name is Rachel. I'm 31, the oldest child of three. My Father has been an alcoholic for as long as I can remember, a good man with a horrible disease. He worked hard through the years the provide for us, making up for his absence by trying to give his family a good life. After years of "controlled" drinking and being able to hide his addiction from most, the insanity took control, the man who was once a functioning alcoholic became lost to the world and became consumed by the bottle. We lost everything, a family business, our home the list goes on and desperation set in. the impact of loss was so great on my Father that he found his way to Alcoholics Anonymous. The program was a gift to him and to our family, my Father got sober we began to pick up the pieces and in December of 2006 he celebrated 5 years of sobriety. Those five years will forever be cherished as it was the first time in my life that I was able to have a relationship with my Father and begin to understand his disease.

On June 14, 2007 my Mother received a phone call that my Father had relapsed, attempted suicide and was in the hospital. As you can imagine this was devastating to our family, especially my 14 year old brother, Christopher. We had no clue that the insanity of the disease had returned and that my Father was in such a desperate state. Since then many things have come to the surface and we again find ourselves in a desperate time. My mother works for a meager salary three days a week at a Bed and Breakfast. She is trying so hard to take care of my brother and pick of the pieces. My Father left a trail of destruction that we never saw coming. Several bad business deals, lie after lie about everything. In his absence my Mother found that her financial situation was not as he has presented it to her and the family as a whole. Always wanting to be the provider he couldn't bare to let us know that he had again lost a business and there was no money. He was robbing peter to pay paul and it caught up, leaving my Mother with nothing. She will loose her home the end of July, all the bills are behind, and there is no money and no one to help. I have a good job but work for ten dollars an hour. I have a small condo and no means to give them the help they need, I do what I can but that has left me behind with my financial obligations.

I would like to ask for help to get them moved and into a small comfortable home so that they can begin to rebuild without my Father. My brother starts high school this year and deserves a chance to be a child without all the worries of financial instability. I hope that someone full of compassion and understanding for the disease of alcoholism reads this and can help. I will make any arrangements necessary for formal agreement of repayment. I appreciate your consideration.  Rachel

 

 

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RachelChere'  

In Desperate Need Of Help

Daughter of an Alcoholic Father in desperate need of help. My name is Rachel. I'm 31, the oldest child of three. My Father has been an alcoholic for as long as I can remember, a good man with a horrible disease. He worked hard through the years the provide for us, making up for his absence by trying to give his family a good life. After years of "controlled" drinking and being able to hide his addiction from most, the insanity took control, the man who was once a functioning alcoholic became lost to the world and became consumed by the bottle. We lost everything, a family business, our home the list goes on and desperation set in. the impact of loss was so great on my Father that he found his way to Alcoholics Anonymous. The program was a gift to him and to our family, my Father got sober we began to pick up the pieces and in December of 2006 he celebrated 5 years of sobriety. Those five years will forever be cherished as it was the first time in my life that I was able to have a relationship with my Father and begin to understand his disease.

On June 14, 2007 my Mother received a phone call that my Father had relapsed, attempted suicide and was in the hospital. As you can imagine this was devastating to our family, especially my 14 year old brother, Christopher. We had no clue that the insanity of the disease had returned and that my Father was in such a desperate state. Since then many things have come to the surface and we again find ourselves in a desperate time. My mother works for a meager salary three days a week at a Bed and Breakfast. She is trying so hard to take care of my brother and pick of the pieces. My Father left a trail of destruction that we never saw coming. Several bad business deals, lie after lie about everything. In his absence my Mother found that her financial situation was not as he has presented it to her and the family as a whole. Always wanting to be the provider he couldn't bare to let us know that he had again lost a business and there was no money. He was robbing peter to pay paul and it caught up, leaving my Mother with nothing. She will loose her home the end of July, all the bills are behind, and there is no money and no one to help. I have a good job but work for ten dollars an hour. I have a small condo and no means to give them the help they need, I do what I can but that has left me behind with my financial obligations.

I would like to ask for help to get them moved and into a small comfortable home so that they can begin to rebuild without my Father. My brother starts high school this year and deserves a chance to be a child without all the worries of financial instability. I hope that someone full of compassion and understanding for the disease of alcoholism reads this and can help. I will make any arrangements necessary for formal agreement of repayment. I appreciate your consideration.  Rachel


 

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RachelChere'  

Help me Help my Family

Daughter of an Alcoholic Father in desperate need of help. My name is Rachel. I'm 31, the oldest child of three. My Father has been an alcoholic for as long as I can remember, a good man with a horrible disease. He worked hard through the years the provide for us, making up for his absence by trying to give his family a good life. After years of "controlled" drinking and being able to hide his addiction from most, the insanity took control, the man who was once a functioning alcoholic became lost to the world and became consumed by the bottle. We lost everything, a family business, our home the list goes on and desperation set in. the impact of loss was so great on my Father that he found his way to Alcoholics Anonymous. The program was a gift to him and to our family, my Father got sober we began to pick up the pieces and in December of 2006 he celebrated 5 years of sobriety. Those five years will forever be cherished as it was the first time in my life that I was able to have a relationship with my Father and begin to understand his disease.

On June 14, 2007 my Mother received a phone call that my Father had relapsed, attempted suicide and was in the hospital. As you can imagine this was devastating to our family, especially my 14 year old brother, Christopher. We had no clue that the insanity of the disease had returned and that my Father was in such a desperate state. Since then many things have come to the surface and we again find ourselves in a desperate time. My mother works for a meager salary three days a week at a Bed and Breakfast. She is trying so hard to take care of my brother and pick of the pieces. My Father left a trail of destruction that we never saw coming. Several bad business deals, lie after lie about everything. In his absence my Mother found that her financial situation was not as he has presented it to her and the family as a whole. Always wanting to be the provider he couldn't bare to let us know that he had again lost a business and there was no money. He was robbing peter to pay paul and it caught up, leaving my Mother with nothing. She will loose her home the end of July, all the bills are behind, and there is no money and no one to help. I have a good job but work for ten dollars an hour. I have a small condo and no means to give them the help they need, I do what I can but that has left me behind with my financial obligations.

I would like to ask for help to get them moved and into a small comfortable home so that they can begin to rebuild without my Father. My brother starts high school this year and deserves a chance to be a child without all the worries of financial instability. I hope that someone full of compassion and understanding for the disease of alcoholism reads this and can help. I will make any arrangements necessary for formal agreement of repayment. I appreciate your consideration.  Rachel

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RachelChere'  

DAUGHTER OF AN ALCOHOLIC IN DESPERATE NEED

Daughter of an Alcoholic Father in desperate need of help. My name is Rachel. I'm 31, the oldest child of three. My Father has been an alcoholic for as long as I can remember, a good man with a horrible disease. He worked hard through the years the provide for us, making up for his absence by trying to give his family a good life. After years of "controlled" drinking and being able to hide his addiction from most, the insanity took control, the man who was once a functioning alcoholic became lost to the world and became consumed by the bottle. We lost everything, a family business, our home the list goes on and desperation set in. the impact of loss was so great on my Father that he found his way to Alcoholics Anonymous. The program was a gift to him and to our family, my Father got sober we began to pick up the pieces and in December of 2006 he celebrated 5 years of sobriety. Those five years will forever be cherished as it was the first time in my life that I was able to have a relationship with my Father and begin to understand his disease.

On June 14, 2007 my Mother received a phone call that my Father had relapsed, attempted suicide and was in the hospital. As you can imagine this was devastating to our family, especially my 14 year old brother, Christopher. We had no clue that the insanity of the disease had returned and that my Father was in such a desperate state. Since then many things have come to the surface and we again find ourselves in a desperate time. My mother works for a meager salary three days a week at a Bed and Breakfast. She is trying so hard to take care of my brother and pick of the pieces. My Father left a trail of destruction that we never saw coming. Several bad business deals, lie after lie about everything. In his absence my Mother found that her financial situation was not as he has presented it to her and the family as a whole. Always wanting to be the provider he couldn't bare to let us know that he had again lost a business and there was no money. He was robbing peter to pay paul and it caught up, leaving my Mother with nothing. She will loose her home the end of July, all the bills are behind, and there is no money and no one to help. I have a good job but work for ten dollars an hour. I have a small condo and no means to give them the help they need, I do what I can but that has left me behind with my financial obligations.

I would like to ask for help to get them moved and into a small comfortable home so that they can begin to rebuild without my Father. My brother starts high school this year and deserves a chance to be a child without all the worries of financial instability. I hope that someone full of compassion and understanding for the disease of alcoholism reads this and can help. I will make any arrangements necessary for formal agreement of repayment. I appreciate your consideration.  Rachel

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PacWell  

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PacWell  

School Loans, depressing

I am so depressed.  I just finished nursing school and passed my boards.  I should be happy right?  I also have a new husband and step daughter... should be happy right?  And my step daughter has no real mom...her mom signed her rights away and went away to drink alcohol when she was 2.  I have been in their lives and helping with her since she was 4.  We are now married, she is 10.  Anyway, I would happy with my life if I did not have an $80,000 school loan hanging over my head.  The school loan is for another school... Court Reporting.  I went to Court Reporting (stenography) school for about 7 years... which added up to about $45,000.  Now with interest and time it's up to $80, and over the 30 year plan they put me on, it will be $200,000.  And now I have to tell my husband.  He was so excited about my new wages, and now I have to throw a wrench in it.  I only have the loan because I am not a quitter, and I was trying to go through the school and work at the same time, which is impossible with that line of work.  They finally told me I was out of loans and that I could not finish the school.  I made A's in all the academics, but the last 4 years was just trying to get to 225 words a miniute on that steno machine.. Ug!.  Anyway, I am very depressed and totally screwed and would love any help that anyone could offer.  With my husband I was able to not work and go to nursing school, which I am now done with... but now all the money will go to those damn loans.  Does anyone know what I can do to find a 'past-school-loan grant'?
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bigal  

recovering alcoholic/addict needs help to keep his home.

hello my name is alan i am a gratefully recovering alcoholic/addict that has fallen upon very hard times on September 29,2006 i entered a rehab center and i am very thankful that i did it showed me the path to recovery and to my higher power.i had been off work for a month prior to the rehab do to my addictions and for a while after i got out then i returned to work for about a month then i got laid off the week before Christmas and am still off today I am a painter so sometimes winter brings on a slow spell.we are so broke I cant even explain they are trying to foreclose on our house and repo our cars plus everything else is behind and i dont know what to do I am having no luck finding a job to fill in till i can get pack to painting if anyone could send help we would appreciate it   greatly.  Thank you.                                                         

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mozart5  

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